Enzo Barboni

Italian director

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Enzo Barboni was an influential Italian director known for his contributions to the spaghetti western subgenre. He is particularly credited with popularizing a more comedic, slapstick style within the genre, most notably with the film They Call Me Trinity (1970) and its sequel Trinity Is Still My Name (1971). These films, starring Bud Spencer and Terence Hill, became highly successful and were among the highest-grossing spaghetti westerns of all time. Barboni's work added a distinct flavor to the gritty and violent conventions often associated with spaghetti westerns, which were typically made by Italian filmmakers in Europe during the 1960s and early 1970s.12

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Barboni is credited with popularizing the slapstick version of the spaghetti western with the release of They Call Me Trinity in 1970. In the film, two brothers—a lazy, unkempt gunfighter (Hill) and an inept horse thief (Bud Spencer)—defend a group of Mormons from a neighbor…
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Barboni is credited with popularizing the slapstick version of the spaghetti western with the release of They Call Me Trinity in 1970. In the film, two brothers—a lazy, unkempt gunfighter (Hill) and an inept horse thief (Bud Spencer)—defend a group of Mormons from a neighbor…
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