Rita nel West (1967)

User Rating:

4.1/10   

Director:

Ferdinando Baldi

Writers:

Ferdinando Baldi (writer)
Franco Rossetti (writer)

Release Date:

7 September 1973 (West Germany)

Genre:

Musical | Western

Plot:

Little Rita has a dream: she dreams of a better world and she believes that all the evil in the world originates from gold...

Plot Keywords:

Gold | Spoof | Female Gunfighter | Musicarello | Character Name In Title

Cast

Rita Pavone	...	Little Rita
Terence Hill	...	Black Star
Lucio Dalla	...	Francis
Nina Larker
Teddy Reno	...	The Sheriff
Kirk Morris	...	Ringo
Pinuccio Ardia	...	The Barman
Gordon Mitchell	...	Bisonte Seduto
Fernando Sancho	...	Sancho
Nini Rosso	...	Mexican Trumpet Player
Gino Pernice	...	Tribunal President (as Luigi Pernice)
Romano Puppo
Mirella Pamphili		(as Mirella Pamfili)
Franco Gulà	...	A lawyer
Enzo Di Natale

Also Known As:

Crazy Westerners (USA)
Little Rita nel West
Rita of the West

Runtime:

90 min | Sweden:97 min

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Certification:

West Germany:12 (nf) | Norway:16 | Finland:K-12

Company:

B.R.C. Produzione S.r.l.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in The Spaghetti West (2005) (V)

Soundtrack:

Rita sei tutti noi

Is Rita a woman or not ?

Weird Mixture of Western-Parody and Musical. Rita Pavone looks strangely androgynous in this movie, I can't say if she's really a woman or not. O_O

the musical scenes are typical 60s style,and a bit annoying. The overall atmosphere is light-hearted, although the jokes are VERY dated.

I only know the german-dubbed version, so I'm sure the italian dialogue had to be extensively rewritten to make sense in german. This is generally a enjoyable,but still very strange western-parody with outlandish musical songs and equally weird dancing sequences.

Good for your weekend thrash video night. :-)