ma-cortes Little Rita (Rita Pavone) is a female gunfighter who travels to the Far West , she has a glorious dream , to get the best world , that's why she is chasing bandits . Little Rita believes that all the badness in the world comes from the gold rush . Pavone takes the valuable gold from them and hides it in a cave and assisted by Sitting Buffalo she has decided to destroy it and to blow it up by dynamite . In her mission she is helped by the Indian Chief Sitting Buffalo (Gordon Mitchell) and by her colleague John Fitzgerald Francis (Lucio Dalla) . All of them undertake several adventures and risks . Along the way Little Rita takes on the speedest gunslingers as Ringo (the muscle man Kirk Morris) , Django (Natale) and others as Jesse James (Remo De Angelis , ordinary master of arms) and Zorro (Romano Puppo , habitual Pasta secondary) . Rita meets a reformed Pistolero called Black Star (Terence Hill)and she decides to share his way of life . Later on , Rita is taken prisoner by the Mexican nasty Sancho (Fernando Sancho) and his ominous henchmen who try to rob her precious gold . The draw-fast Black Star seems determined to help her , he then rescues her , but things go awry .The film is a Rita Pavone recital , as she dances , sings , stooges , make acrobatics , tongue twister and put faces and grimaces . This ¨Little Rita¨ film blends the common scenarios , as invincible and tough antiheroes , difficult and fast showdowns with numerous deceases , impulsive and quick zooms as well as amazing musical numbers . Lots of gags and sketches , some of them funny but in the movie lacks a real freshness . Parody movie with a myriad of silly and amusing gags , laughs , comedy with tongue in-cheek and it has its good moments here and there . This is a disconcerting and fun farce with the famous singer and it displays too much fights , punches , shootouts and hilarious as well as spectacular musical numbers , such as : dancing at the Indian settlement , the Pecos town choreography and saloon dances . This ¨Rita in the West¨ belongs to a sub-genre , the Musical spaghetti western along with ¨Una Donna Per Ringo¨ by Rafael Romero Marchent with Sean Flynn , Pili and Mili and ¨Per un Pugno Di Canzoni¨(66) by Jose Luis Merino with Gustavo Rojo and Renzo Palmer . Picture is a Rita Pavone vehicle , as she plays as Little Rita who has a dream : she dreams to avoid the evil that emerges from human ambition and attempts to get a better world and as she schemes to blow up one day all the gold she can put her hands on and get rid of the root of all greed : money . That's why she confronts outlaws as ¨Ringo/Kirk Morris¨ but this role has nothing to do with Giuliano Gemma/Ringo , but he bears a remarkable resemblance to ¨Clint Eastwood/Man without name , including his Poncho ; besides , she contends Django who is dragging his coffin , adding his known machine gun and he subsequently attacks Rita in the customary cemetery full of crosses similarly to Sergio Corbucci's Django . This is an attractive flick which many consider her best musical comedy . As Rita is an nice singer , authentic comedian and real Farceur . If you like Pavone's crazy interpretation , you will most definitely enjoy this one .Cinematography by Enzo Barboni or E. B. Clucher (author of ¨Trinity series¨ with Terence Hill and Bud Spencer) is well made . It contains a catching , original musical score by Robby Poitevin and Alessandroni and enjoyable songs sung by Rita Pavone and Lucio Dalla . The motion picture titled ¨Little Rita nel West" , "Crazy Westerners" , "Little Rita" (USA title) or "Locuras En El Oeste" was professionally directed by Ferdinando Baldi , under pseudonym , Freddy Baldwin . Ferdinando was a craftsman who directed all kind genres but especially Western such as "Carambola's Philosophy : In the Right Pocket" , "Blindman" , ¨Il Pistolero dell'Ave Maria" or "Forgotten Pistolero" , ¨"Django Sees Red" , ¨Rita in the West¨ and ¨Adios Texas¨ at his best . The pic will appeal to Rita Pavone , Terence Hill fans and Spaghetti Western buffs . Rating : Nice and acceptable. Well worth seeing .

Leofwine_draca This scattershot spoof of the spaghetti western genre starts off appealingly enough, with guest appearances from famous characters like Sancho, the Mexican bandit leader, the gunslinger Ringo, and the mysterious Django. However, all of these guys are killed off early on, leaving the film to meander through pointless scenes of romance between its two leads and indulge in some fairly lame humour with a Native American tribe. The biggest flaw is the central casting of Rita Pavone, who may be a good singer but who certainly cannot act; her Calamity Jane-wannabe type heroine is grating and obnoxious to watch throughout, with few redeeming qualities.For such a hit-and-miss film, there's a large amount of talent involved. The reliable Ferdinando Baldi is the director and works through the film methodically, but without any real style or talent. His pacing is spot on, however. Then there are the stars: Terence Hill is the male lead Black Stan, but fans be warned as his is a boring character who doesn't actually achieve much throughout the film; he plays the straight man to Rita's joker. Former peplum icon Kirk Morris appears all-too-briefly as anti-hero gunslinger Ringo before getting blown up, whilst fellow muscleman Gordon Mitchell has a hilarious role as Native American chieftain Silly Bull. Other than these appearances, the film isn't very interesting, relying too much on dated and unappealing humour and trading on the stereotypes it fails to build on.

ironhorse_iv Known as Crazy Westerners or Little Rita in the West. This movie is directed by Ferdinando Baldi, this film was suppose to be a funny musical spoof of Spaghetti Westerns genre! Little Rita (Rita Pavone) has a dream: she dreams of a better world with her Indian Chief pal Bisonte Seduto (Gordon Mitchell) and her German friend Francis (Lucio Dalla). In some versions, Rita is known as Little Jane, and her Indian Chief Pal name is Sitting Bison, Silly Bull, and others. So she has decided to blow up all the gold she can put her hands on by stealing from famous cowboys and outlaws. One by one, Little Rita track down some the Old West biggest legends such Ringo (Kirk Morris) and Django (Lucio Rosato) and go toe to toe with them. Kirk Morris playing Ringo looks and is dressed more like Clint Eastwood's No Name, and Lucio Rosato looks like a mirror image of Franco Nero's Django. It was until she met Black Star (Terence Hill) that she finally met her match. Hill's character Black Star was called Texas Joe in the German version by the way. In an obvious attempt to exploit the later success of 1970's Trinita played by Terence Hill, this film was rereleased in France with all the music sequences edited out and the character of Black Star baptized Trinita. A certain amount of jocks and puns was also added in the French translation of the dialogue supposedly to reinforce the comical dimension of the film. The fair amount of jokes are hit and misses. It poke fun at the anti-capitalist idiosyncrasies of some of the early political westerns, scripted by Franco Solinas. The movie is full of cheese moments that are just hilarious or awful. The bullet hitting a bullet scene was pretty awesome. Twice. It got a bit silly when a bullet go into another man's gun. The gold rocket launcher was just insane. It made me laugh, but gees, I didn't know they had gold rocket launcher in the old west. I guess this movie is really not going for historic accurate with such references such as dirty movies, machine guns, golf clubs and the silly gold bullet proof vest. Sorry, but bullet proof vest don't work that way. You can't get shot at, and not have any bullet holes in your shirt, or no kick back react to getting blasted at. The action scenes are pretty OK, but it's those one shot kill that make Spaghetti Westerns so messy. Bodycount: ca. 10 Gringos, ca. 13 Mexicans. It's weird in a way, that after a bit of action and death. Everybody starts singing and dancing as if the Wicked Witch was dead. The movie is full of clumsily choreographed dancing scenes. I do like the scene in which an Indian brave pantomimes the various ways of torturing a prisoner to death. That was pretty funny. There is a lot of mediocre songs sung by Italian pop star Rita Pavone. Pavone sings with a high-pitched, shrill voice and a strong Turin accent, which makes it hard to understand her lyrics. Rita Povone sounds like an annoying chipmunk in some of these songs. "Little Rita", "You are like", "For a gunshot" "A sheriff that you are respected" are songs that is hard to tell apart, because they all sound the same to me. It's catchy, but it doesn't help that the songs were not dub in English, while everything else is. The dubbing is awful. Not only does it not match, but characters names keep changing throughout the film. It was a bit funny that the Native American Silly Bull was talking in one scene as if he was a German. The editing isn't that good. Some scenes ending very quickly after the last line of dialogue and giving the film a rushed feel in a few places. The picture quality is decent - only light grain, but colors are slightly faded and there is minor speckling and print damage throughout. During some scenes, there is a slight bar on the left of the screen that changes colors - this is mostly covered by over-scan and not generally noticeable during watching. This movie is insultingly stupid to Spagnetti Westerns fans. To have Rita Pavone, a pop singers make fools out of Western legends like Ringo and Django is just lame. Reportedly Pavone was very dynamic and her restless behavior on the set led to minor incidents with other actors. To give you an example of what I meant by this, let's say American produce a film in which Lindsey Lohan play a cowboy who kill off all the great American Westerns characters like Clint Eastwood's Man with no Name or John Wayne's Rooster Cogburn because they were a bit greedy. That would angry you. Thus this is why this film isn't that good. The film wasn't for any Spagnetti Westerns fan, it was intended to be a showcase for Italian pop star Rita Pavone. It mocks or parodying typical most love characters. The Title sequence to this movie is like Grease or Pink Panther, a stupid cartoon that really doesn't help make the movie any better. While Rita Pavone is pretty cute, and her singing isn't nails scratching on a chalkboard horrible. Just seeing her in this film seem out of place. That's why this movie has no home in Spagnetti Western collection.

humanoidzombie Fun little movie that pokes fun at many other spaghetti westerns -- and movies in general. The script is uneven, but most of the (in) jokes are fun. Lots of references to semi-famous western movie titles, scenes, and characters... Terence Hill doesn't do much, the real star is Rita Pavone in this one. I won't spoil it for you, just try and find it, some scenes are worth it -- when you're feelin' stupid!