Two Sons of Trinity (1972)

Franco Franchi is Franco Trinita and Ciccio Ingrassia is his brother Ciccio Trinita.

They’re sons of Trinity, a famous gunfighter who died when they were young.

These days, they’re partners in a 19th Century “service station,” where cowpokes can find food, drink, get their horse washed and buy bullets out of a bubble gum machine.

One day, a woman drives a buckboard loaded with a coffin up to the station. As Franco and Ciccio rush to find out what’s in the coffin, a Django like figure jumps out, apparently ready to rob the place.

Not so fast, Django. Because Calamity Jane arrives as well. She saves the day, then delivers some interesting news to the service station owners.

An outlaw named Chun Chin Champa was responsible for their father’s demise. And she provides them with clues to find their father’s hidden treasure.

So off the duo ride, sitting in chairs atop their horses and carrying umbrellas to shield them from the sun.

They ride right into another source of trouble — a card game with a crooked gambler named Armstrong (Franco Ressel) who has a pretty seductress named Lola (Lucretia Love) as a partner.

They, or course, scheme to get the treasure too.

Review:

One of the more clever of the Franco and Ciccio Western comedies. This one starts with a series of vignettes as famous Spaghetti characters like Sartana, Ringo and Sabata stop by the service station.

An outhouse mishap leaves Sartana in tears. The duo sell Ringo a donkey and a squeeze horn to make the donkey move. And poor Sabata watches his black stallion emerge white after some time in the service station’s horse wash contraption.

Indeed, we’re a full half-hour into this film before the duo set out on their journey. It includes a stop at a saloon where Franco settles into a card game with Armstrong and shows off some of the wildest card tricks imaginable.

Unfortunately, the cleverness eventually sputters out and the climax features a way-too-drawn-out brawl between a group of monks and Chun Chin Champa’s gang back at the service station.

Still, in spite of the poor reputation of the Franco and Ciccio films, this one’s likely to make Spaghetti fans smile more often than many of the Spaghetti comedies being churned out in the early 1970s.

Directed by:
Osvaldo Civirani
as Richard Kean

Cast:
Franco Franchi … Franco Trinita
Ciccio Ingrassia … Ciccio Trinita
Lucretia Love … Lola
Anny Degli Uberti … Calamity Jane
Goffredo Ungar … Father Superior
as Freddy Hungar
Franco Ressel … Armstrong
Andrea Scotti … Sheriff
as Andrew Scott
Fortunato Arena … Jack Gordon
Angelo Susani … Chun Chin Champa
Fulvio Pellegrino … Roger

Also with: Gianni Pulone, Luigi Antonio Guerra, Clemente Ukmar, Remo Capitani, Claudio Ruffini, Pietro Torrisi, Bruno Arie

aka:
I due figli di Trinità

Music: Sante Maria Romitelli

Trivia:

This film came near the end of a run of more than 110 movies Franco and Ciccio made together. It also appears to have been their last Spaghetti Western spoof. Franco appeared minus Ciccio in the 1975 comedy, “Dream of Zorro.”

Angelo Susani, who plays Chun Chin Champa here, had a much smaller role in 1971’s “Trinity is Still My Name.” He appeared in about 25 Spaghetti Westerns, judging from his bio on IMDb, often in uncredited roles.

Texas-born Lucretia Love was discovered by broadcaster Cactus Pryor and got her start selling chicken on his television show, according to the Westerns All’Italiana blog. She appeared in about three dozen films from 1965 to 1977, retired and spent the last 32 years of her life living in Seychelles, a chain of islands off the coast of Africa. She also appeared in 1966’s “Go with God, Gringo” and 1967’s “Colt in the Hand of the Devil.” She died in 2019 at age 77.

Anny Degli Uberti as Calamity Jane in Two Sons of Trinity (1972)

Andrea Scotti (Andrew Scott) as the sheriff in Two Sons of Trinity (1972)