Enzo Barboni(1922-2002)

Enzo Barboni (nick name E.B. Clucher) is one of the most representative filmmakers of the last line of the western to Italian thanks to the parodistic and trumpet-like series of Trinity. Born in 1922, Enzo Barboni began operating as a car operator in 1942, only twenty years later, and in 1961 became director of photography with the film The two marshals of Sergio Corbucci. At the same time he began to work as a screenwriter. The passage to the director, with the pseudonym of E.B. Clucher (Clucher was the grandmother's last name) came in 1970 with a "traditional" Western, Ciakmull - The man of revenge that was not very successful. In the same year he directed the cult-movie Called Trinity ... with Terence Hill and Bud Spencer, who also wrote the subject and the screenplay. The success of this film went beyond any expectation, resulting in one of the greatest collections of the time. Among the keys to success there is certainly the irony brought to the western rigid and cold gender. So after the first film with Spencer / Hill, Barboni conducted the follow-up in 1971 ... they continued to call it Trinity, which will also be a huge commercial success. Enzo Barboni will lead another three films by Terence Hill and Bud Spencer: Crime Busters (1977), Go for It (1983) and Double Trouble (1984). Barboni's production is considered distinct for good and for a "family" cut that the audience showed to appreciate a lot until the early eighties. Certainly the Trinity movie verve was no longer reached and Western spaghetti, both in classical and ironic form, entered a deep crisis from which it has not risen again. Barboni continued to write for other films as well, but then slowly retired: the last films were written by his son Marco Tullio, including his latest Sons of Trinity (1995), an unfortunate attempt to recall the historic success of "Trinity" ..., bringing together US actors, Heath Kizzier and Keith Neubert. Enzo Barboni died in 2002, a few days before he was 80 years old.