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Little Rita nel West

Crazy Westerners
Little Rita of the West / Blaue Bohnen für ein Halleluja / Rita of the West

Italy 1967
produced by
Manolo Blognini for B.R.C. Produzione
directed by Ferdinando Baldi
starring Rita Pavone, Terence Hill, Lucio Dalla, Nina Larker, Teddy Reno, Kirk Morris, Pinuccio Ardia, Gordon Mitchell, Fernando Sancho, Nini Rosso, Gino Pernice, Romano Puppo, Mirella Pamphili, Franco Gulà, Enzo Di Natale, Livio Lorenzon
written by Ferdinando Baldi, Franco Rossetti, music by Robby Poitevin, cinematography by Enzo Barboni

Django

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Little Rita (Rita Pavone) is the fastest gun of the West - but she uses her skills only for good, working together with chief Sitting Bison (Gordon Mitchell) to rid the world from the root of all evil - gold. So in the opening sequence she guns down a bunch of stagecoach robbers (and picks up sidekick Lucio Dalla in the process), then goes after Ringo (Kirk Morris) - a bounty hunter very much in Clint Eastwood's Man with no Name-tradition -, who has stolen half the loot before she could do anything about it, to first show him she can outdraw him any day, then she virtually blows him to Kingdom Come.

Next it's Django - complete with coffin containing his machine gun -, who has also gotten his hands on gold that isn't his. And she is quick to get her hands on his coffin, then kills him on a graveyard (where he uses crucifixes to replace his triggerfingers, just like in the actual Django).

Next, she goes against Mexican baddie Sancho (Fernando Sancho), but is captured by his men, and the only reason she's not shot dead right away is that these Mexican break out in party every time somebody says "Viva Sancho". This gives Black Star (Terence Hill), a drifter Rita has met and fallen for only a short while ago, plenty of opportunity to free her and blow up Sancho's men.

Rita returns to her Indian friends and brings Black Star with her as guest of honour ... but then Black Star tries to steal the Indians' gold. He is caught though, and all Rita, who's hurt by his betrayal but still in love with him and grateful for him saving her life, can do is to ask for him to be tried by a white man's court, as she figures there might be a legal loophole ... but all Black Star does is to confess he's guilty, upon which he is condemned to death and sent back to the Indians to execute the verdict. Rita still cannot see him die, so she uses her influence with the Indians to set him free. But Black Star just returns to the town he was convicted in to ask to be executed - but then saves the town from Sancho and what's left of his men, upon which the locals want to make him sheriff.

Everything ends with the Indians blowing up the cave they keep their gold in, a big party in the local saloon, and Rita riding off to the stars (?) ... with Black Star following her once he has learned where she's off to.

Rita Pavone's mentor and soon-to-be husband Teddy Reno steals quite a few scenes playing a sheriff with a nervous disposition.

 

A musical spoof of spaghetti Westerns with pint-sized young singer Rita Pavone playing a tough-as-nails gunwoman - now this could have led to pretty much everything from greatness to utter disaster. Little Rita nel West though is above everything else - uneven. There are some unexpectedly and genuinely funny scenes here, especially the whole sequence with Django or almost every scene Teddy Reno is in ... but the film seems to never be able to find its story: Basically, the whole thing is just a mess, plotwise, never able to tie up its unrelated episodes into a whole, and on top of that, most characters just lack motivation, or even worse, their motivations seem to shift. And the extending ending definitely makes no sense.

Well, I guess it's still worth a chuckle or two, but it's definitely less than good.

 

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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