Fantasma en el Oeste

Movie
Original title	Fantasma en el Oeste
Country of production	Spain , Italy
original language	Spanish
Publishing year	1974
length	104 minutes
Rod
Director	Antonio Margheriti (as Anthony M. Dawson )
script	Giovanni Simonelli (as Gianni Simonelli ) Antonio Margheriti Miguel de Echarri
production	Carlo Ponti
music	Paolo Vasile
camera	Alejandro Ulloa junior
cut	Giorgio Serrallonga (as Jorge Serrallonga )
occupation
Fernando Bilbao : Davy Crockett's Ghost (as Fred Harris ) Alberto Terracina : Napoleon B. Higgins (as Tom Scott ) Maribel Martín : Rosy Rafael Albaicín : Paco Ricardo Palacios : Captain Garcia George Rigaud : leader of the Mexicans Franco Ferracini : Johnny Appleseed Elsa Zabala : Rosy's grandmother Manuel De Blas : Davy Carradine Barta Barri Maribel Hidalgo Daniele De Luca : bartender

Fantasma en el Oeste is a Spanish-Italian spaghetti western comedy directed by Antonio Margheriti. The film, produced in 1974, has not yet been shown in German-speaking countries.

action

Napoleon Higgins makes the American West happy with his elixir of life , which he brings to the gullible people. When one day, on the run from angry customers, he sought refuge in a cave near the Alamo, he met the ghost of Davy Crockett, who took him under his powerful wing from then on. Thanks to him Napoleon escaped the gang of the Mexican Garcia; In return he tries to bring Davy back together with his old flame Katie (who also knows about the hidden treasure of the old fort). Napoleon, Davy, Katie and their lovely niece Rosy travel together to Dusty City. On the way they are attacked again by Garcia, who is severely beaten by Napoleon's invisible friend. Having become brave, Napoleon is now looking for the people behind the gang around the Mexican. To do this, they want to use Katie's treasure, but are prevented several times by fights between Davy's ghost and his opponents (the ghosts of Pecos Bill and Johnny Appleseed). Eventually, the treasure turns out to be a large amount of whiskey. Napoleon and Rosy get married and open a saloon.

criticism

According to genre expert Christian Keßler, the film is pleasing "with its appropriate speed and spectacularly staged action sequences" . The slapstick scenes of the “somewhat elaborately produced” work are “not hilarious, but amusing”.

Remarks

The Italian production partner's title is Whiskey e fantasmi ("Whiskey and Ghosts").

A performance in German-speaking countries was planned under the title “Two great dogs in the wildest west”.

A single from the soundtrack was released in 1976 with the titles Whiskey e chitarre and Napoleone e famtasmi (United Artists UA 35753).

Web links

• Fantasma en el Oeste in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The film at comingsoon.it

Individual evidence

1. ^ Entry in the Archivio del Cinema Italiano
2. ↑ Christian Keßler: Welcome to Hell . 2002, pp. 280/281
3. ↑ [1]