Fabulous Trinity (1972)

Fanny Grey is Nora Winters, a lovely blonde who arrives in the border town of Watson with the intent to travel into Mexico.

She’s heading there to visit her uncles, she informs a handsome stranger named Scott (Richard Harrison), who insists on traveling along to ensure she arrives safely.

He soon learns they’re heading to a prison where, according Nora, the uncles are being held under false accusations of gun smuggling.

In fact, they have been smuggling guns south of the border. And Nora wants to set them free because there’s a new shipment of the latest rifles sitting somewhere in Watson, just waiting to be transported to a buyer who will pay a handsome price for the weapons.

The prison is run by Col. Jimenez, a revolutionary comrade of Zapata, who is determined to stop the flow of arms to anti-revolutionary forces.

But a couple of smiles, a flash of cleavage and a bit of flirting is all Nora needs to convince Col. Jimenez to set her uncles free in exchange for a chance to spend more time with her.

He’s being bamboozled, of course. And as soon as he finds that out, he’s hellbent on recapturing brothers Bud, Ray and Charles Wesley and tossing pretty Nora into prison right alongside them.

But Scott’s around to help Nora and the new escapees.

He has an ulterior motive, naturally. Each of the brothers has a $1,000 reward on his head, if he can get them back to the United States.

Or he’ll sell them back to Jimenez for $4,000 and pocket a bit of extra cash.

Richard Harrison as Scott, learning of a new bounty up for grabs in Fabulous Trinity (1972)

Fanny Grey as Nora Winters, mesmerizing Col. Jimenez with her smile in Fabulous Trinity (1972)

Review:

Another of those insipid comedies that flooded the Spaghetti Western landscape in the early 1970s, this garbage has just two redeeming qualities.

One is the presence of Fanny Grey, whose smile lights up every scene in which she flashes it. She also flashes a good deal of leg while driving a wagon, for no other logical reason than to heighten the film’s sex appeal.

The other is the presence of a cross-eyed prison guard. He’s unaffectionately given the nickname Cock-eyed by Col. Jimenez, partly because his vision problem affects his ability to aim a gun in the right direction.

As for the rest of the film, except lots of fat men jokes because the tree brothers are played by Cris Huerta, Ricardo Palacios and Tito Garcia, none of whom are trim around the waste. In some versions of the film, their names are apparently Pinzio, Panza and Ponza Trinidad.

As for their gun-running infamy, watching this film, one has to wonder how they acquired it. They seem more like bumbling idiots good at just one thing — devouring food in the most disgusting manner possible.

Fernando Sancho as Col. Jimenez, getting his first glimpse of the lovely Nora Winters in Fabulous Trinity (1972)

Cris Huerta as Bud Wesley, always excited at the prospect of a hearty meal in Fabulous Trinity (1972)

Directed by:
Ignacio F. Iquino

Cast:
Richard Harrison … Scott
Fernando Sancho … Col. Jimenez
Fanny Grey … Nora Winters
Cris Huerta … Bud Wesley
Ricardo Palacios …. Ray Wesley
as Richard Palance
Tito Garcia … Charles Wesley
as Bob Garcy
Gustavo Red … Wells, saloon owner
as Rex Gustavson
Cesar Ojinaga … Black Jack
Miguel Muiesa …. Jack, stage driver
as Mike Morton
Juan Fernandez … Prison secretary
Irene D’Astrea … Waystation proprietor
Ricardo Moyan … Mulligan
Juna Torres … Prison guard
Fernando Rubio … Pedrito
Luis Nonell … Sheriff John
Luis Oar … Captain Juarez

Runtime: 91 min.

aka:
Los fabulosos de Trinidad
With Friends, Nothing is Easy

Music: Enrique Escobar
Song: “Restless Hands” sung by John Campbell

Ricardo Palacios as Ray Wesley, being slipped a six-gun by the disguised Nora in Fabulous Trinity (1972)

Tito Garcia as Charles Wesley, fearful of a possible return to prison in Fabulous Trinity (1972)

Memorable lines:

Col. Jimenez, about his cross-eyed prison guard, who tends to aim his rifle in the wrong direction: “Cockeye frightens me more than bullets.”

Scott, offering to capture the gun-runner: “Four thousand dollars is my last price (for recapturing the three gun smugglers). Are you interested?”
Col. Jimenez: “Three bullets are cheaper and more effective.”

Luis Oar as Capt. Juarez, the officer serving under Col. Jimenez in Fabulous Trinity (1972)

Fernando Rubio as Pedrito, the cross-eyed prison guard in Fabulous Trinity (1972)

Trivia:

Fanny Grey’s only other credited Spaghetti role was in a sequel to this film, “Fat Brothers of Trinity.” According to IMDb, she had uncredited roles in at least three other Westerns, incluidng “God in Heaven … Arizona on Earth” (1972), starring Peter Lee Lawrence.

Ignazio F. Iquino produced and co-wrote that sequel, but Pedro Luis Ramirez directed the film. Daniel Martin assumed the lead role with Palacious, Garcia and Huerta back in the roles of bumbling brothers. Heck, John Campbell even performed the them song again.

Cesar Ojinaga as Black Jack, threatened with walking sticks after swindling the Wesley brothers in Fabulous Trinity (1972)

Luis Nonell as Sheriff John of the town of Watson, talking bounties with Scott in Fabulous Trinity (1972)

Ricardo Moyan as Mulligan, an outlaw with a $500 price on his head in Fabulous Trinity (1972)

Richard Harrison as Scott, in talks about yet another bounty in Fabulous Trinity (1972)

Fanny Grey as Nora Winters, charming her way into Col. Jimenez’s affection in Fabulous Trinity (1972)

Cris Huerta as Bud Wesley, wondering how Nora’s parrot would taste in Fabulous Trinity (1972)

Luis Omar as Capt. Juarez and Fernando Sancho as Col. Jimenez, listening to Scott’s offer of help in Fabulous Trinity (1972)

Ricardo Palacios as Ray Wesley and Tita Garcia as his brother Charles, on the alert because of an approaching horse in Fabulous Trinity (1972)