Go Away! Trinity Has Arrived in Eldorado
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| Go Away! Trinity Has Arrived in Eldorado | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | "Dick Spitfire" (pseudonym, see section on "Directorial credit" below) |
| Starring | Stelvio Rosi (credited as Stan Cooper) Gordon Mitchell Daniela Giordano Amerigo Castrighella (credited as Custer Gail) Carla Mancini Craig Hill |
| Cinematography | Joe D'Amato (as Aristide Massaccesi)[1] |
| Music by | Giancarlo Chiaramello[1] |
Release date | November 12, 1972[1] |
Running time | 87 minutes (2400 m)[1] |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
Go Away! Trinity Has Arrived in Eldorado (Italian: Scansati ... a Trinità arriva Eldorado, translation: Back off ... Eldorado arrives in Trinity) is a comedic spaghetti western from 1972.[1] It is one of the first of various "Trinity" films inspired by the earlier They Call Me Trinity and Trinity Is Still My Name.[2]
Plot
Carter, a con man, and his partner Jonathan Duke make a living travelling the country and selling a dubious "Elixir of Long Life" and tricking people at poker. When that does not earn them enough, they plan to team up with Ringo Jones and his band to rob the crazy Mexican general Eldorado of his gold.[1][3]
The film's English title notwithstanding, "Trinity" is the name of a town, not a person, and the Italian title more accurately reflects the film's plot.
Cast
- Stelvio Rosi — Jonathan Duke III
- Gordon Mitchell — Sebastian Carter
- Craig Hill — Eldorado
- Amerigo Castrighella — Ringo Jones
- Daniela Giordano — Juanita
Directorial credit
Sources disagree as to the identity of the film's director. The credited name, Dick Spitfire, is a pseudonym for Diego Spataro,[4] a name that had also been used for an earlier film, Django and Sartana Are Coming... It's the End. In his 1992 book on spaghetti westerns, Thomas Weisser assumes that the name is a pseudonym for director Demofilo Fidani and, consequently, states that Fidani was director for both Django and Go Away!. However, Weisser cites no evidence other than the similarity of the two films' treatment of humor with that seen in other Fidani films.[3]
In an interview published in 1996, Joe D'Amato said that Go Away! was the first film he directed and that he shot it in six days with the help of assistant director Romano Gastaldi. He also acknowledged that the official director's credit went to Spataro, and not to him.[2] In another interview some two years later, D'Amato elaborated on this point, stating that he did not want to receive directorial credit because he feared that, once he had worked as a director, other directors might be hesitant to hire him as a cinematographer. D'Amato further recalled that Spataro, who had made many spaghetti westerns with Fidani, had plenty of stock footage from those films, and that some of it was used in editing Go Away!.[4]
Writing in 2002, film historian Ulrich Bruckner described Go Away! as a collaboration between Spataro, Fidani and D'Amato. He credited all three as directors of the film.[1]
Reception
In a contemporaneous review of the film, La Révue du Cinéma deplored mistakes in chronology, chaotic editing and lack of talent in storytelling, but at the same time recognized its quirky humour.[5][full citation needed] More recently (2002), Ulrich Bruckner found it to be among the better collaborations of D'Amato, Fidani and Spataro.[1]
See also
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h Bruckner, Ulrich P. (2002). Für ein paar Leichen mehr: Der Italo-Western von seinen Anfängen bis heute. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf. p. 462. ISBN 3-89602-416-7.
- ^ a b Palmerini, Luca M.; Mistretta, Gaetano (1996). Spaghetti Nightmares: Italian Fantasy-horrors as Seen Through the Eyes of Their Protagonists. Fantasma Books. p. 77. ISBN 9780963498274. The observation regarding the other Trinity films is attributed to Joe D'Amato.
- ^ a b Weisser, Thomas (1992). Spaghetti Westerns: The Good, the Bad and the Violent. North Carolina: McFarland. pp. 131–132. ISBN 0-7864-2442-7. Regarding the use of humor, Weisser says the "sight gags are humorous at first, but [...] timing is so bad that the joke quickly turns from funny to tedious".
- ^ a b Fratter, Roger A. (Director) (1999). Joe D'Amato Totally Uncut: The Erotic Experience (documentary). Event occurs at 14:30-16:05. In this latter interview, D'Amato states that the film was shot in three days, not the six-day period stated in the 1996 interview.
- ^ "Planque-toi minable, Trinita arrive!". La révue du cinéma: image et son. 1974. Month of issue and page number are not known.
External links
- Go Away! Trinity Has Arrived in Eldorado at IMDb
- Scansati... a Trinità arriva Eldorado on Spaghetti-Western.net
Category:1972 films
Category:Films directed by Joe D'Amato
Category:Italian-language films
Category:Italian films
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