Man of the East (...E poi lo chiamarono il Magnifico)

Man of the East (original Italian title ...E poi lo chiamarono il magnifico) is a 1972 western comedy. A French-Italian-Yugoslav co-production, it is the third film Enzo Barboni (as E.B. Clucher) made with Terence Hill. Its title and humour echo the two Trinity films, so it is sometimes counted as an unofficial third entry, though the characters differ and Bud Spencer is absent; it premiered in February 1972.

The story is set in the Wild West around 1880, as the railway is built toward the Pacific. Terence Hill plays Sir Thomas More, an English nobleman who arrives to America at the wish of his late father and is placed with three bandits, the father's old companions, to make a man of him. Thomas hates violence and prefers a bicycle to a horse, but after falling for a landowner's daughter and being beaten by his rival again and again, he resolves to learn to fight and shoot. The comedy comes from the clash of refined European manners and rough frontier life; modernisation, which some characters try in vain to escape, recurs. The cast includes Yanti Somer, Harry Carey Jr., Enzo Fiermonte and Sal Borgese.

Running gags, like two bounty hunters whose faces keep being pushed onto a table, recall the Trinity films. It reached German cinemas in September 1972.