Tonight on Amazon: The title of this western is deceiving you, but you should watch it anyway!

The Prime Video platform hosts a true curiosity in the history of the Western, which is carried by the duo of Terrence Hill and Bud Spencer. Except this isn’t about all-out slapstick (although there are a few) and good-natured humor: this is a Western that couldn’t be more serious, and it’s no joke. But various film editors sometimes tried to make you believe it was.

Terrence Hill in Clint Eastwood mode

It’s available on Prime Video under one of its badass titles, “Trinita Will Break Everything,” but it’s actually Boot Hill! It features the character of Cat Stevens (yes, like the singer played by Terence Hill) who has official papers for a mining claim and tries to escape Finch’s killers who try to steal them. A cat wounded in a shooting finds shelter in a circus, where it meets artists ready to help it. In order to get revenge on Finch, he calls his former friend Hutch Bessie (Bud Spencer).

Highly recommended, making full use of the circus at the heart of the film, The Hill of Boots is a very good Western that lacks resources but whose ambition is palpable. It was published in August 1970 in France under its actual title, The Hill of Boots, a reference to the American boot hill, a nickname given to cemeteries during the conquest of the West because people died there “with boots on”. Let’s say, often quite violently, somewhere from a bullet.

Except we call it Trinita (1970) and we continue the title after the success of Trinita (1971), their previous films are rewritten in the wrong way to make people believe other Trinita films. Django Prepare Your Coffin directed by Terence Hill in 1968, released under the title Trinita, prepare your coffin And the hill of boots becomes Trinita will break everything.

Hill of Titles: Trinita will break it all

Boot Hill is probably the Terrence Hill and Bud Spencer film that had the most different French titles. When it was released on VHS, it was sold under the title claw for clawbut also Blood in Trinita’s headTrinita is then going to spoil everything, but also Liberty Town Gold and also Trinita Breaks Everything: A Hill of Boots.

It’s enough to sell and resell the same film in a thousand different ways, by several different publishers, to the detriment of any consistency, because you guessed it, there’s no trinity in a hill of boots.

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The Hill of Boots is the last opus of the trilogy directed by Bud Spencer and Terence Hill, in which they play the same characters: God Forgives, I Don’t (1967), Ave Maria Four (1968) and among them The Hill of Boots is the latest installment. The “serious” westerns are all worth watching and came out in front of the two Trinitas, which made the duo famous and also locked them into comedy.