Stelvio Rosi is Jonathan Duke III and Gordon Mitchell is Sebastian Carter, partners and con artists roaming the West, looking for an easy buck.
When selling magic elixir and cheating at cards doesn’t yield the desired fortune, they decide to rob a rich eccentric named Eldorado (Craig Hill).
Knowing Eldorado has a band of adoring followers, Jonathan recruits Ringo Jones and his gang to help pull the job.
Knowing he’ll need a way into Eldorado’s lair, he forms an allegiance with the eccentric’s pretty niece Juanita (Daniela Giordano), promising her an even split of the gold.
But with a fortune at stake, can Jonathan and Sebastian really trust these new partners?
Review: (EMPTY GUN)
Quiz time: What’s worse than a silly Spaghetti Western comedy?
Answer: One with Dick Spitfire — alias for Demofilo Fidani — anywhere in the opening credits.
Seriously, this is a film with absolutely no redeeming qualities. Unless you like card tricks, because there are plenty of those.
Or unless you’ve dreamed of seeing one-time Spaghetti star Craig Hill ride a horse with handlebars. Or sit on a throne with two pretty ladies at his beck and call.
Hold it, I’m making the film sound too appealing. Trust me, this is one you want to skip.
I mean, they couldn’t even get the title right, in Italian or English. In this film, Eldorado is not a place!
Stelvio Rosi (Stan Cooper) as Jonathan Duke III in Trinity in Eldorado (1972)
Gordon Mitchell as Sebastian Carter in Trinity in Eldorado (1972)
Director:
Artistide Massaccesi
Diego Spataro (Dick Spitfire)
Cast:
Stelvio Rosi … Jonathan Duke III
as Stan Cooper
Gordon Mitchell … Sebastian “Seb” Carter
Craig Hill … Eldorado
Daniela Giordano … Juanita
Amerigo Castrighelli … Ringo Jones
as Custer Gail
Carla Mancini … Annie
Benito Pacifico … Ringo henchman
as Dennis Colt
Enzo Pulcrano … Miguel, Ringo henchman
as Paul Crain
Anna Lina Alberti … Pussy
as Lina Alberti
Runtime: 87 min.
aka:
Scansati… a Trinità arriva Eldorado
Go Away! Trinity Has Arrived in Eldorado
Pokerface
Stay Away from Trinity … When He Comes to Eldorado
Run Men Run
Run Men, Eldorado is Coming to Trinity
Craig Hill as Eldorado in Trinity in Eldorado (1972)
Daniela Giordano as Juanita in Trinity in Eldorado (1972)
Memorable lines:
Customer with crippled hand: “Hey, mister, will this stuff make my hand get better?”
Jonathan Duke III, selling him a bottle of his magic elixirt: “It’s liable to grow you a whole new hand, friend.”
Customer #2: “Hey, mister, will that stuff work? My wife and I have been trying to have a kid.”
Jonathan Duke III: “Three large spoons a day. If that doesn’t work, have your friend come in and try.”
A minute of film time later, the couple come running back onto the scene, the wife sporting a baby bump.
Husband: “Look, it worked. It worked. Hey, look everybody. We did it. It’s a miracle.”
Jonathan Duke III to Sebastian Carter: “I thought when we went into this partnership, everything would be divided up 50-50. Why is it when it comes to fighting, I get your 50 percent too?”
Eldorado, as he’s being tied up: “You can’t do this to a God.”
Jonathan Duke III: “I’m an atheist.”
Amerigo Castrighelli (Custer Gail) as Ringo Jones in Trinity in Eldorado (1972)
Craig Hill as Eldorado riding his horse motorcycle in Trinity in Eldorado (1972)
Trivia:
This film includes poorly matching stock footage from previous Demofilo Fidani films. So there’s a gunfight featuring Gordon Mitchell that comes out of nowhere. Same for a saloon brawl later in the film. And a fistfight in a pool of mud.
Stelvio Rossi (pseudonym Stan Cooper) probably isn’t a household name to Spaghetti fans, but he appeared in five of the films. His Spaghetti efforts also include “You’re Jinxed My Friend, You’ve Met Sacramento” (1972), “The Great Treasure Hunt” (1972) and “More Dollars for the MacGregors” (1970) and the deceptively titled “Paths of War,” a Franco and Ciccio comedy.
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