Blaue Bohnen für ein Halleluja (1967)

Blaue Bohnen für ein Halleluja: Directed by Ferdinando Baldi. With Rita Pavone, Terence Hill, Lucio Dalla, Teddy Reno. Little Rita is a female gunslinger who travels to the Far West chasing outlaws. She takes gold from them and hides it in a cave which she plans to blow up one day and get rid of the root of all evil: money.

“My hobby is watching bad movies. Every week I watch about 20 bad movies. Really bad movies. I try and seek out the most obscure and bizarre films I can possibly find. After u0026#39;The Gods Must Be Crazyu0026#39; parts 3 and 4 I thought Iu0026#39;d seen it all. Just before this I watched a French Nazixploitation film starring Brigitte Lahaie and it barely phased me. So as you can tell Iu0026#39;ve built up a tolerance. But I am just at a loss for words to describe this film! u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eSo itu0026#39;s obvious this is a spaghetti western about a female gunfighter. Nothing odd here, there are plenty of spaghetti westerns like u0026#39;The Good the Bad and the Uglyu0026#39; there are plenty of westerns with female leads. And itu0026#39;s a comedy parody of westerns, no problem, there have been many parodies of westerns like u0026#39;Blazing Saddlesu0026#39; and u0026#39;Support Your Local Sheriff.u0026#39; And itu0026#39;s a musical, no problem, there have been many western musicals like u0026#39;Paint Your Wagon Red.u0026#39; Combining all FOUR of these themes is pushing it.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eMy point is, I went in to this knowing it was spaghetti western parody musical with a female lead. But nothing of 38 years on this earth could prepare me for this!!! This is something which must truly be seen to be believed!!! u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAt 6:00 in we truly enter a parallel universe! u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe only way to describe it is that the characters who up until now have been dubbed to English break into a rock and roll dance number in Italian which I can only compare to an Elvis Presley movie. 48 hours later I still canu0026#39;t get the tune out of my head even though all the lyrics were in Italian.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe music and singing this film are done very well. Remember, itu0026#39;s all rock and roll and all in Italian.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eSo after that I was unfazed by anything which happened after that. And A LOT of bizarre things do happen. It turns out Little Rita has been robbing stage coaches for the Indians so they can gather all the white manu0026#39;s evil gold and destroy it. NOT KIDDING thatu0026#39;s the plot! Obviously it would be impossible for one person to amass the entire worldu0026#39;s gold and itu0026#39;s impossible to destroy gold! Itu0026#39;s an element. You can melt it down but itu0026#39;s impossible to destroy.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAnyway, first Little Rita must battle the evil gun fighter Ringo. Yes, Ringo! She does this by strapping a golden RPG to her .45 and blowing him up. Whatever… Iu0026#39;m still in a daze from 6:00. I guess John, Paul, and George must now avenge his death.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThis isnu0026#39;t the last time Little Rita uses her golden RPGs to win a gunfight. She takes out an entire gang of Mexican bandits with one blast.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eFinally after a few more musical numbers Little Rita u0026quot;returns to where she came from.u0026quot; and just rides her horse into outer space! Yup, Iu0026#39;m not making up any of this. So sheu0026#39;s an alien and her horse is a space ship? Still not as shocking as what happens at 6:00.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eSo yes I would endorse this film. It is highly entertaining. I loved it. Just be prepared for an out of body experience. Your brain may have a hard time processing this. After 48 hours mine still hasnu0026#39;t. Iu0026#39;m still in a total daze.”