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His Name Was Holy Ghost

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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

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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

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  • 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

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References

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  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.
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