Verflucht, verdammt und Halleluja

Pretty good Terrence Hill movie. I watched it on the Starz premium network; but there, it is titled "Man from the East"; and the dialog is all in English. I could not find that title on IMDB so I matched the DVD cover art to this movie.

I suppose , the young Terence Hill ( and his blue eyes ) , the good humor and smart game with western cliches , the romance, in same measure, are the good points of this pretty film , one of many spaghetti westerns , with nice start point and charming story.

A young English man , son of a dead outlaw, comes in savage West of USA for become man with help of his father buddies. A beautiful girl and his feelings for her, complicates in significant manner the things. But he is not alone and his teachers are real good ones.

So, he confronts the bad guy . And all works in just expected way.

The main gift for today viewer- I suppose nostalgia. And it is just enough.

City dweller meats countryside and encounters a lot of trouble. Naturally he has to gain respect and to prove that he's worthy, too. The humor is similar to the one of the Trinity series and is never truly violent. No one will be killed or injured. The film was shot in the beautiful environment of the Plitvice lakes in Croatia and reminded me of the days I spent there.

6 / 10.

I must admit, this was not the worst Terence Hill film I've ever seen but certainly one of his worst ones. The jokes are not too frequent and there is too much made of the romance. For me the highlights of his career are still the movies he made with Bud Spencer. Some of those are really hilarious. On his own I find Terence Hill not to be too entertaining. His best solo works is Renegade.

6 out of 10

P.s.: I watched the german dubbed version (as I always do) for these films are hard to come by, plus I find the voices and the dialogues much better in German than I do in Italian

Watching this right now, trying to figure out if it was directly inspired by the Lucky Luke adventure about the Duke arriving in the USA from England. And I suspect it is, because all the humor structure is centered around that.

Come to think of it, back then it must have been quite normal to adapt a major comic book to cinema without properly crediting the source material. Still, this is a head scratcher and I gotta check the publication date of that Lucky Luke adventure to make sure.

Anyways...

Terence Hill is watchable even without Bud Spencer, however the supporting cast has difficulty shining when there is only one lead.

Production quality and pace are same with all those other spaghetti westerns. Facial expressions during the brawl scenes are the highlights.

Watchable after half a decade, but not the best example to the genre it belongs with.

P. S. Just checked it. The adventure is titled after the character "Tenderfoot" and was published in French in 1968. Yep, my theory holds water. Italian filmmakers saw the potential soon as (and maybe even before) translations were around.