westerner357
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(aka: TRINITY IS STILL MY NAME) This sequel looks like it was done to capitalize on the outstanding European box-office success of THEY CALL ME TRINITY, only this time Joseph E. Levine and Avco-Embassy pictures wanted to capitalize on it in America as well. Too bad they didn't get very far since the Hill/Spencer pictures have had only had marginal success here in the U.S., and this largely boring, drawn-out film doesn't help it out any.
Trinity and Bambino swear to their dying father (Harry Carey Jr.) that they will become successful outlaws and take care of each other. They later get involved with arms-traffickers who smuggle guns out of a monastery, and who mistakenly think they're a pair of federal agents. It all winds up falling flat in spite of a couple of funny scenes, especially the one where Trinity and Bambino are in a fancy French restaurant and don't know how to carry themselves. And the scenes with the card sharks was mildly humorous as well.
The opening title music sung by Gene Roman sounds like a fair Bobby Goldsboro-like early 70s pop song while the music cues sprinkled throughout the movie are pretty good. Not sure if I'd want to buy the CD soundtrack of it but some others might.
The film could have had a half hour whacked off of it and it wouldn't have dragged on for so long. It looks like a lot of scenery is being chewed up here. In fact, I lost interest in it about 2/3rds of the way through. The DVD is also terrible, with a constant hum in the soundtrack and a poor print that looks like it should have been sent to that great scrap heap in the sky.
A big step down from the previous film.
4 out of 10
Trinity and Bambino swear to their dying father (Harry Carey Jr.) that they will become successful outlaws and take care of each other. They later get involved with arms-traffickers who smuggle guns out of a monastery, and who mistakenly think they're a pair of federal agents. It all winds up falling flat in spite of a couple of funny scenes, especially the one where Trinity and Bambino are in a fancy French restaurant and don't know how to carry themselves. And the scenes with the card sharks was mildly humorous as well.
The opening title music sung by Gene Roman sounds like a fair Bobby Goldsboro-like early 70s pop song while the music cues sprinkled throughout the movie are pretty good. Not sure if I'd want to buy the CD soundtrack of it but some others might.
The film could have had a half hour whacked off of it and it wouldn't have dragged on for so long. It looks like a lot of scenery is being chewed up here. In fact, I lost interest in it about 2/3rds of the way through. The DVD is also terrible, with a constant hum in the soundtrack and a poor print that looks like it should have been sent to that great scrap heap in the sky.
A big step down from the previous film.
4 out of 10
HONDO wasn't even released on VHS until 1995 when it was out of circulation for almost 30 years. Now Paramount home video has seen fit to release it on DVD, and it's about time since it has a lot of great macho dialog from Wayne, along with that classic scene of Wayne coming in from the desert, carrying his saddle with 'dog' by his side. That seems to be one of his most famous movie poses of all time.
The film itself is a little rough during the opening and closing titles, yet by and large, looks pretty clean considering it's age and the big, clumsy 3-D camera they used to film this thing with.
One of the first Louis L'Amour novels to hit the screen, this one involves Army scout Hondo Lane protects woman (Geraldine Page) and her son (Lee Aaker) from marauding Apaches led by Vittorio (Michael Pate) who wants her to marry one of his braves and become his squaw. In the meantime, Hondo has to kill her husband (Leo Gordon) because he tried to backshoot Hondo near a watering hole. It pains Hondo to have to tell the woman and her son this, but she doesn't care a whole lot because she didn't think much of her husband, anyway.
Hondo also has to contend with kill-happy sidekick to Vittorio, Silva (Rodolfo Acosta) and they have a pretty good knife duel until Vittorio stops it, thinking Hondo is the woman's real husband and not the guy Hondo had to kill earlier. Silva also leads the Apache attack at the end where there's that climatic battle with the wagons circled with Hondo leading the Army and settlers in fending off the attack. You know the rest.
DVD extras include a trip to the vaults with Michael Wayne and interviews with surviving actors Michael Pate and Lee Aaker. Not sure why Geraldine Page received an Oscar nomination for this one since she seems more an extra here than someone who's on screen a lot of the time. She wouldn't make another movie again for almost 10 years.
It's not my favorite Wayne western since that's reserved for the John Ford/Wayne pictures, but this one holds it's own.
6½ out of 10
The film itself is a little rough during the opening and closing titles, yet by and large, looks pretty clean considering it's age and the big, clumsy 3-D camera they used to film this thing with.
One of the first Louis L'Amour novels to hit the screen, this one involves Army scout Hondo Lane protects woman (Geraldine Page) and her son (Lee Aaker) from marauding Apaches led by Vittorio (Michael Pate) who wants her to marry one of his braves and become his squaw. In the meantime, Hondo has to kill her husband (Leo Gordon) because he tried to backshoot Hondo near a watering hole. It pains Hondo to have to tell the woman and her son this, but she doesn't care a whole lot because she didn't think much of her husband, anyway.
Hondo also has to contend with kill-happy sidekick to Vittorio, Silva (Rodolfo Acosta) and they have a pretty good knife duel until Vittorio stops it, thinking Hondo is the woman's real husband and not the guy Hondo had to kill earlier. Silva also leads the Apache attack at the end where there's that climatic battle with the wagons circled with Hondo leading the Army and settlers in fending off the attack. You know the rest.
DVD extras include a trip to the vaults with Michael Wayne and interviews with surviving actors Michael Pate and Lee Aaker. Not sure why Geraldine Page received an Oscar nomination for this one since she seems more an extra here than someone who's on screen a lot of the time. She wouldn't make another movie again for almost 10 years.
It's not my favorite Wayne western since that's reserved for the John Ford/Wayne pictures, but this one holds it's own.
6½ out of 10
