Man of the East (1972)
"E poi lo chiamarono il magnifico" (original title)

By his dying father's last wish Joe is sent to the Wild West to become a real guy. The dreamy young man despises guns and fights, likes poems and prefers bicycles to horses. Now his three ... See full summary »

Director:

Enzo Barboni

Writer:

Enzo Barboni

Stars:

Terence Hill, Gregory Walcott, Yanti Somer

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Terence Hill	...	Sir Thomas Fitzpatrick Phillip Moore
Gregory Walcott	...	Bull Schmidt
Yanti Somer	...	Candida Olsen
Dominic Barto	...	Monkey Smith
Harry Carey Jr.	...	Holy Joe (as Harry Carey)
Enzo Fiermonte	...	Frank Olsen
Danika La Loggia	...	Iris
Riccardo Pizzuti	...	Morton Clayton
Jean Louis	...	Prison Warden
Alessandro Sperli	...	Tim
Salvatore Borghese	...	Cacciatore di taglie (as Salvatore Borgese)
Steffen Zacharias	...	Stalliere
Luigi Casellato	...	Padrone del ristoro
Pupo De Luca	...	Direttore del carcere
Rigal Suzanne Leone

Storyline

By his dying father's last wish Joe is sent to the Wild West to become a real guy. The dreamy young man despises guns and fights, likes poems and prefers bicycles to horses. Now his three teachers, footpads all of them, shall teach him otherwise. This doesn't work, until Joe has to defend himself against gunman Morton, who's jealous of Joe's love to rancher Ohlsen's beautiful daughter.

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Plot Keywords:

bicycle | hit in the face | cowboy | bar fight | spaghetti western | 

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Taglines:

He Makes The Fastest Guns In The West...Die Laughing!

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Genres:

Action | Comedy | Western

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Certificate:

PG

Details

Country:

Italy France Yugoslavia

Language:

Italian

Release Date:

28 September 1972 (West Germany)

Also Known As:

A Man from the East

Filming Locations:

Plitvice, Yugoslavia

Box Office

Gross:

SEK 918,365 (Sweden)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Jadran Film, Les Productions Artistes Associés, Produzioni Europee Associati (PEA)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

125 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Unofficially regarded as the third part of the Trinità Trilogy: My Name Is Trinity, Trinity Is STILL My Name! and this movie.

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Quotes

Sir Thomas Fitzpatrick Phillip Moore: Stop dreaming. This is 1880. You can't evade progress forever. The West is... Well, the West is finished.
Bull Schmidt: Son, as long as we can see a sunset, there'll be a West. I guess we gonna' have to follow that sunset.

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Connections

Referenced in Profession: Acrobat - An Afternoon with Riccardo Pizzuti (2008)

User Reviews

Surprisingly jaunty Italian-made western...Terence Hill makes it fun

East meets West, with the usual pleasures to be had in a rather typical fish-out-of-water story. Terence Hill is the jolly Britisher who arrives in Old West Arizona upon his dying father's wish that he become a cowboy. Writer-director Enzo Barboni knows just how to utilize Hill's starry-eyed charm, and the actor is very funny exercising in the morning in front of the gunslingers or riding his bicycle down tumbleweed streets. A ready-made romance is provided for our hero with a literature-minded lass into Byron (her baby-blue eyes match up well with Hill's, although his dimply prettiness is tough to beat). The film isn't much, but the English-dubbing is good and the Yugoslavian locations give it a curious and unusual look. The general handling is so amiable that viewers may become absorbed by the movie without even realizing it. It sneaks up on you, like the best kind of sleeper. ** from ****