His Name Was Holy Ghost
{{short description|1972 film}}
{{Infobox film
| name = His Name Was Holy Ghost
| image = His Name Was Holy Ghost poster.jpg
| producer = Luciano Martino
| director = Giuliano Carnimeo
| story =
| writer = Tito Carpi
Federico De Urrutia
| starring = Gianni Garko
Pilar Velázquez
| music = Bruno Nicolai
| cinematography = Miguel Fernández Mila
| released = {{Film date|1972}}
| language = Italian
}}
His Name Was Holy Ghost ({{langx|it|Uomo avvisato mezzo ammazzato... parola di Spirito Santo}}, {{langx|es|...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.{{cite book|last=Marco Giusti|title=Dizionario del western all'italiana|year=2007|publisher=Mondadori, 2007|isbn=978-8804572770}}{{cite book|last=Paolo Mereghetti|title=Il Mereghetti - Dizionario dei film|publisher=B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010|isbn=8860736269}}
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
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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==
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- {{IMDb title|0065991}}
Category:Spanish Western (genre) films
Category:Spaghetti Western films
Category:1972 Western (genre) films
Category:Films directed by Giuliano Carnimeo
Category:Films scored by Bruno Nicolai
Category:Films produced by Ricardo Sanz
Category:1970s Italian-language films
Category:Italian-language Western (genre) films
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