His Name Was Holy Ghost

His Name Was Holy Ghost
Directed byGiuliano Carnimeo
Written byTito Carpi
Federico De Urrutia
Produced byLuciano Martino
StarringGianni Garko
Pilar Velázquez
CinematographyMiguel Fernández Mila
Music byBruno Nicolai
Release date
  • 1972 (1972)
LanguageItalian

His Name Was Holy Ghost (Italian: Uomo avvisato mezzo ammazzato... parola di Spirito Santo, Spanish: ...Y le llamaban El Halcón, also known as They Call Him Holy Ghost and El halcón de Sierra Madre) is a 1972 Italian-Spanish Spaghetti Western film directed by Giuliano Carnimeo and starring Gianni Garko, and is the follow-up to They Call Him Cemetery. It received a belated UK release in 1976 under the title Blazing Guns as a supporting film to Monsters From an Unknown Planet[1][2]

Plot

A mysterious stranger named Holy Ghost joins forces with a beautiful Mexican revolutionary girl and her father to overthrow a ruthless general and rescue a man who knows the location of a mine, which has been won by Holy Ghost in a poker game.

Cast

  • Gianni Garko as Holy Ghost
  • Pilar Velázquez as Juana Mendoza
  • Paul Stevens as Samuel Crow
  • Víctor Israel as The Priest
  • Poldo Bendandi as General Ubarte
  • Cris Huerta as Carezza
  • Jorge Rigaud as Don Firmino Mednoza
  • Nello Pazzafini as Colonel
  • Fortunato Arena as Colonel Matadodos
  • Aldo Barberito as Friar John
  • Carlo Gaddi as Captain Fiesta
  • Franco Pesce as Engineer Hernandez
  • Rick Boyd as Vern Crohn
  • Monica Altomonte
  • Salvatore Baccaro as Spirito Santo's Men
  • Pietro Ceccarelli
  • Pasquale Coletta
  • Maria D'Incoronato
  • Gildo Di Marco as Spirito Santo's Men
  • Evi Farinelli as Wendy
  • Lina Ferri
  • Dada Gallotti as May
  • Mario Gas
  • Italo Guitto
  • Gianclaudio Jabes as Spirito Santo's Men
  • Carla Mancini
  • Furio Meniconi
  • Ricardo Moyán as Drunk
  • César Ojinaga as Soldier
  • José Palomo as Fight Spectator
  • Riccardo Petrazzi
  • Mimmo Poli as Barman
  • Gianni Pulone
  • Moisés Augusto Rocha as Boxing coach
  • Thomas Rudy as Lieutenant
  • Claudio Ruffini as Poker Player
  • Amerigo Santarelli as Spirito Santo's Men
  • Maurizio Tocchi
  • Juan Torres as Esteban
  • Fredy Unger as Cpt. Ortega
  • Ettore Arena as Soldier
  • Mario Dardanelli as Soldier
  • Roberto Dell'Acqua as Card Player
  • Alberigo Donadeo as Soldier of General Ubarte
  • Marcello Meconizzi as Ubarte Soldier

See also

References

  1. ^ Marco Giusti (2007). Dizionario del western all'italiana. Mondadori, 2007. ISBN 978-8804572770.
  2. ^ Paolo Mereghetti. Il Mereghetti - Dizionario dei film. B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010. ISBN 8860736269.