Boot Hill (La collina degli stivali), directed and written by Giuseppe Colizzi, starring Terence Hill, Woody Strode, Victor Buono, Bud Spencer, Lionel Stander and Eduardo Ciannelli. Music by Carlo Rustichelli and cinematography by Marcello Masciocchi.A Technicolor/Techniscope production! Boot Hill is very much an acquired taste. One man's art canvas is another man's paper mache head, such is the case here with this messy, muddled Spaghetti Western, a pic that has strong fans and haters in equal measure.Personally I hated it, it was 90 minutes of motion sickness and staccato editing, with a musical score veering from plains driving grandeur to acid induced circus shrills. Cast are fine enough, though there's dubbing for dubbing's sake, while an extended over acted barroom brawl at finale is a fun time at least, but really it has to be your thing to enjoy as a whole.A bowl of spaghetti sieved through a kaleidoscopic colander. 1/10

This movie essentially begins with a traveling circus performing in a small town in the American West with a cowboy by the name "Cat" (Terence Hill) surrounded by several armed men out to kill him. Although he is wounded in a gunfight he manages to hide out in one of the circus wagons and subsequently evades those after him when the circus eventually leaves the town. It's then that he is discovered by one of the circus hands who then proceeds to take him in and treat his wounds. Unfortunately, when the armed men catch up to the circus in another town they find some makeshift bandages covered in blood and subsequently kill one of the performers in a fit of anger. This, in turn, infuriates the performer's father named "Thomas" (Woody Strode) who sets out to kill the people responsible. However, since there are so many of them he decides to search for Cat in the hope that he will help him. Yet even then the odds are not in their favor so Cat takes Thomas to find someone they can count on and trust—"Hutch" (Bud Spencer). Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this was an okay film to end the trilogy which included "God Forgives…I Don't!" and "Ace High". Admittedly, the sets seemed rather cheap but then that isn't too unusual for "Spaghetti Westerns" of this type. Again, by and large it was an okay film and because of that I have rated it accordingly. Average.

A disappointing follow-up to the superior ACE HIGH, BOOT HILL sees the comedy tag-team of Terence Hill and Bud Spencer teaming up again just before they hit the big time in the early 1970s. It's fair to say that this is a lacklustre comedy western, one which seems to have been sloppily made with the minimum of effort in all departments.The storyline is basic in the extreme: Hill is wounded and rescued by a troupe of circus performers, with whom he develops a strong bond. Soon, the gang are in a small town, where a ruthless businessman (played with slimy relish by Victor Buono) bumps off anybody who dares oppose him. Before long they put a plan into action to defeat the businessman and his criminal gang, giving them a taste of real justice.BOOT HILL is a slow, unfocused type of film punctuated by some very indifferent action scenes. As seems to be the normal for these productions, there's an obsession with acrobats cavorting across the screen, although their action is limited to the big top this time around. Hill and his regular comedy partner Bud Spencer feel subdued here, with little of the genuine laughs that usually accompany their adventures. A notable supporting cast features a youthful George Eastman playing alongside veterans Woody Strode and Lionel Stander.

I bought this movie because it was sold as a set with "Trinity is Still My Name" and was advertised as a sequel to the two Trinity movies. It was actually produced 2 years before "They Call Me Trinity" and the only thing that "Boot Hill" (AKA "Trinity Rides Again") has in common with the other Trinity movies is Terence Hill. "Boot Hill" is long, boring and doesn't hold together. I tried to watch it, but found myself fast-forwarding through it, waiting for something interesting to happen. I wound up throwing "Boot Hill" away.