Boot Hill (film)
| Boot Hill (La collina degli stivali) |
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US film poster
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| Directed by | Giuseppe Colizzi |
| Produced by | Giuseppe Colizzi Enzo D'Ambrosio |
| Screenplay by | Giuseppe Colizzi |
| Starring |
Terence Hill Woody Strode Victor Buono Bud Spencer Lionel Stander Eduardo Ciannelli |
| Music by | Carlo Rustichelli |
| Cinematography | Marcello Masciocchi |
| Edited by | Tatiana Morigi Casini |
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Production
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Finanzia San Marco
Crono Cinematografica B.R.C. Produzione S.r.l. |
| Distributed by | Euro International Film (Italy) Film Ventures International (US) |
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Release date
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December 20, 1969 |
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Running time
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95 minutes |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
Boot Hill (Italian: La collina degli stivali) is a 1969 Italian Spaghetti Western film starring Terence Hill and Bud Spencer. This film is the last one in a trilogy that started with God Forgives... I Don't! (1967), followed by Ace High (1968).
The film was rereleased as Trinity Rides Again. The title change and rerelease was in order to cash in on the success of They Call Me Trinity (1970) and Trinity Is Still My Name (1971).
One night in the Old West, a man named Cat tries to ride out of a town and is ambushed by a large number of men. He is wounded, but manages to lure them away and hides in a wagon belonging to a circus company. Outside town the wagons are searched by men who are shot by Cat and the trapeze artist Thomas, who is a former gunfighter.
Cat leaves the company as soon as he can travel. The same night men arrive and search the wagons during the show and discover traces of him. To retaliate they shoot down Thomas’ partner Joe during their performance. Thomas finds Cat and nurses him back to health saying that he needs him as ”bait for my trap.” Cat takes him to Hutch, who lives in a house together with another big man, who is called Baby Doll and is a mute. Hutch receives Cat with hostility. Cat explains that Sharp, a friend of Hutch who is a prospector, needs help to stop mining boss Fisher from taking his claim, and that Cat had won the deed to the claim in a rigged poker game to be able to take it out of town (that is why he was attacked in the beginning). Hutch reluctantly agrees to come along, together with Baby Doll. They find the remnants of the circus with its manager Mami, refit it, and gather the artists.
At the mining town a county commissioner arrives to review the claims, but the miners are afraid to talk to him – except for the McGavin family, but they are besieged in their home and eventually destroyed with dynamite by the large outlaw band of Finch, who co-operates with Fisher. However, at night a message is delivered to the commissioner in his room by a dwarf (from the circus).
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