They Call Me Trinity

The comedy that ended the cycle by making it impossible to take seriously again. A lazy gunslinger and his outlaw brother reluctantly defend a Mormon settlement, and the film plays every spaghetti-western convention for laughs, from the squinting standoffs to the beans.

Terence Hill and Bud Spencer became a huge draw as the mismatched brothers, and the film was enormous across Europe. It is funny and affectionate about the genre it is dismantling.

The point where the spaghetti western learned to laugh at itself, for better and worse.