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The following movies borrowed from this one movie made in 1952: The Third Man and the Manchurian Candidate. The movie itself borrowed a little from Casablanca.

This movie moves along at a steady enough pace at the beginning. Our Hero; Edward Mercer is in Venice as a private detective looking for a man an American family wanted to thank for saving their son's life in WWII.

Then the snags start popping up when he questions a woman. Questions that raises far more answers - even though he is given one that should make him feel his job is actually completed. Some instinct tells the detective that there is more. Mercer sticks around to find out a whole lot more than he expected.

The quote "Frontier Humor" is from the movie. That sums up this amazing movie. "Little Rita of the West (A. K. A. "Crazy Westerners") is mind blowing. The fact that it is a "Spaghetti Western" - made in Italy a week after the Spaghetti Western was born - and its a rock n' Roll musical exists tickles me to no end!

The songs are catchy and memorable...even if you don't understand what they are saying. I'm shocked this movie didn't get on the Midnight movie circuit. It has everything Rocky Horror has.. but its not a parody or spoof of the Spaghetti Westerns..as they just started making them a year or two prior. "LIttle Rita of the West" is its own glorious creation.

There are some scenes where it drags. Mostly one or two in the middle ..and at the very end. There is one moment with Terrence Hills character that brings up a personal story for him..but gets totally dropped not 2 minutes later and never brought back up.. but at that point, you don't care as it doesn't effect the main and Rita's story at all.

Why people rate this below a 7 out of 10 baffles me.