THE PROPHET, THE GOLD AND THE TRANSYLVANIANS

Profetul, aurul şi ardelenii– Romanian title

El profeta, el oro y los transilvanios – Argentinian title

Wo geht’s hier nach Westen – German title

El profeta, el oro y los transilvanios – German title

Vendégek Vadnyugaton – Hungarian title

Prorok, zloto i Siedmiogrodzianie – Polish title

The Prophet, the Gold and the Transylvanians – English title

A 1977 Romanian production [Romania Film (Bucharest)]

Producer: Nicolae Mitican

Director: Dan Pita

Story: Titus Popovici

Screenplay: Titus Popovici

Cinematography: Nicolai Margineanu [Eastmancolor]

Music: Adrian Enescu

Running time: 98 minutes

Cast:

Traian Brad – Ilarion Ciobanu

Romulus Brad – Mircea Diaconu

Johnny Brad – Ovidiu Iuliu Moldovan

Prophet Ezekial Walthorpe – Victor Rebengiuc

Sarah Walthorpe – Olga Tudorache

Rebecca Walthrope – Carmen Galin

Prophet’s wives – Mariana Mihuţ, Ioana Ciomîrtan (Ioana Ciomârtan),

Marshal Joshua Walthorpe – Gheorghe Vişu

Judge Joe Dolittle – Vasile Nitulescu

Deborah Dolittle – Elena Bog

Bob Rupert – Ahmed Gabbany

Jefferson Fitzgerald ‘Jeff’ Groghan - Francisc Bacs

Bounty hunter - Ferenc Bács

J. Anderson - Zoltán Vadász

June - Tania Filip (Tatania Filip)

John Ambler - Andrei Codarcea

Will Clanton – Iancu Lucian (Lucian Iancu)

Buck Coney – Mihai Dobre

Fowler - Constantin Sassu

Hoffman – Dorin Dron

Jeremy - Victor Ștrengaru

Berman - Aristide Teică

Mrs. Vickenton - Clodi Bertola

Pianist - Ovidiu Schumacher

With: Mariela Andreescu, Constantin Anghel, Zenovia Arsic, Mihai Balaban, Ioan Banulescu, Raul Barbu, Mihai Boruzescu, Mircea Breazu, Irina Birladeanu, Decebal Celea, Florica Cernush, Florin Codre, Gabriel Constantinescu, Ion Craciun, Simona Cseh, Doru Dumitrescu, Paul Fister, Florin Ganea, Dumitru Ghiuzelea, Radu Gurau, Ion Hidisan, Virginia Ioan, Nicolae Iordache, Ileana Iring, Cornel Ispas, Costinel Lupu, Ion Mingheras, Adrian Mihai, Alexandru Mihai, Ion Pall, Ingrid Paunescu, Boris Perevznic, Ileana Petchescu, Ionela Petrie, Jean Petrovici, Viorel Plăvițiu, Constantin Popa, Ionel Popovici, Sorin Postelnicu, Catalina Rusu, George Stan, Eugenia Stoian, Cseh Szabolcs (Szabolcs Cseh), Petre Tanasievici, Rodica Vasile,

Stunts: Doru Dumitrescu, Viorel Ivanica

The mining town of Cedar City, Utah, is ruled by Mr. Walthrope, a polygamous Mormon prophet, his son the marshal and their band of ruffians. John Brad is falsely accused of shooting a gunfighter in the back sent against him by the prophet and is forced to flee. Meanwhile, a train brings Jeff Groghan, a gunfighter called by Walthrope, and two Transylvanian immigrants, Traian and Romulus Brad, who have come to meet their brother John. Traian speaks only Romanian and Romulus tries to get by with his dictionary.

At the station, Grogham is received with a gunfight and Traian has occasion to fire his Turkish gun, a souvenir from the siege of Plevna. Upon arrival at the saloon, Traian is invited to play poker with Groghan, a former Confederate officer who still wears his grey uniform and another man. Traian manages to win the pot and Bob, the slave of the Confederate officer.

The fun is interrupted by the arrival of the prophet. With very limited command of English, the Brads inform him that they are looking for John, whose face they see on wanted posters. They are judged by the innocuous drunkard Judge Jo Dolittle, who sentences them to hang but the prophet takes them to his farm, where they toil as farm hands.

The Brads and Bob escape and live in a hut under the Romanian flag where they fish and find gold nuggets. John tries to organize the miners against the prophet who sets the prices and takes their gold away to Salt Lake City, but the miners prefer to allow things to continue as they are.

Later, Walthrope's men assault a man and his daughter that is rescued by John Brad. John and the girl finally reach the Brads' hut. They team together to stop the convoy that carries the miners' gold stolen by the Mormons.

In the ensuing gunfight, the Brads win and successfully defend the miner’s camp against the Walthrope band. Walthrope is captured and the Brads, Bob and the girl ride in the sunset.

YouTube complete film: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfSGp_aSPNs