POKER WITH PISTOLS

Un poker di pistole – Italian title

Poker med Pistoler – Danish title

Pistoolipokeri – Finnish title

Poker au Colt – French title

Poker mit Pistolen – German title

Pkoer me pistolia – Greek title

Balas em jogo – Portuguese title

Poker con pistolas – Spanish title

Dollar i potten – Swedish title

Poker with Pistols – English title

A 1967 Italian production [Italcine TV Picienne (Rome)]

Producers: Gabriele Silvestri, Franco Palombi

Director: Joseph Warren (Giuseppe Vari)

Story: Augusto Caminito, Fernando Di Leo

Screenplay: Augusto Caminito, Fernando Di Leo

Cinematography: Angelo Lotti [Technicolor, Techniscope]

Music: Lallo Gori (Coriolano Gori)

Running time: 86 minutes

Cast:

Bronson/Ponson Terrail/George Benson – George Hilton (Jorge Acosta y Lara)

Lucas – George Eastman (Luigi Montefiore)

Lola – Annabella Incontrera

Masters – Dick Palmer (Domenico Palmara)

Lazar – José Torres (José Medina)

Lola’s Father – Aymo Albetelli

Pat – Valentino Macchi

Sheriff – Giulio Maculani

Master’s henchmen – Nick Roman (Nicola Di Gioia), Claudio Ruffini, Giuseppe Castellano

Roulette player – Elio Angelucci

Mexican bandit – Gino Marturano (Luigi Marturano)

To pay gambling debts Lucas contracts with Ponson Terrail, and is forced to drive a car with a load of paper from one city to another. A certain character named Chamaco, accompanies Lucas on the last leg of the trip. Lucas replaces the load of paper with another where a bag of poker chips are hidden, which will be exploited in the local saloon along with Terrail. At the saloon the two fall into an ambush plotted by Masters, who controls all the illegal activities in the area. Employed by Masters works an old failed painter, wanted by the police for his work as a forger and comes into conflict between Lucas and Masters. During the night, after a violent shootout, Lucas and Terrail have the upper hand on Masters and his band, but then Terrail tries to kill his partner. The intervention of Lazar, a Mexican and unseen witness to all the events, sets things right.