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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.
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