THEY CALL HIM VERITAS

Lo chiamavano Verità – Italian title

Os 4 Magníficos Pistoleiros – Brazilian title
They Called Him Verity – Danish title
On m’appelle Verita – French title
Itan pio tolmiros kai ton elegan Verita – Greek title
Le llamaban la Verdad – Spanish title
Smartast i vastern – Swedish title
They Call Him Veritas – English title
 
A 1972 Italian production [R.T.R. Medusa Film (Rome)]
Producers: Oreste Coltellacci, Giulio Scanni
Director: Luigi Perelli
Story: Oreste Coltellacci
Screenplay: Oreste Coltellacci
Cinematography: Mario Capriotti [Technicolor, Techniscope]
Music: Manuel de Sica
Running time: 91 minutes
 
Cast:
Veritas/Verity – Mark Damon (Alan Herskovitz)
Chigger/Gigante – Pat Nigro (Pasquale Nigro)
Jeese/Jezel – Pitero Ceccarelli
Misery – Franco Garofalo
Paquita – Maria D’Incoronato
Saloon patron – Pietro Torrisi
Spencer/William James – William Bogart (Guglielmo Spoletini)
Spencer henchman- Rico Boido (Federico Boido)
Dying Mexican – Stefano Oppedisano
Pierre – Gigi Bonos (Luigi Bonos)
Friar – Giorgio Dolfin
Captain – Enzo Fiermonte (Vincenzo Fiermonte)
Louis James - Corrado Annicelli
Sheriff - Biagio Pelligra (Giuseppe Aloitta)
With: Franco Scanni, Tony Askin (Antonio Aschi), Giuseppe Alotta, Mauro Mannatrizio, Michele Basile, Gilberto Galimberti

Veritas, Jesse, Misery and Chigger are rascals who live by their wits between Sacramento and San Antonio. Taking advantage of the confusion caused by the Civil War, they wear suitably different uniforms and profess to be heroes. Eventually they wear the wrong uniforms and fall into the hands of southerners, who condemn them to death and then let them free because the war is over. Penniless and clumsy, the four sneak a free meal and some donkeys from the monks of a monastery, then end up in a home as servants of Paquita, who knows where a corrupt official has hidden gold. They develop a plan to evade the surveillance of the bodyguards of the military and to rob the latter. They load the gold on a wagon. But when they are about to take flight, are in turn tricked by a mysterious character. Truth, admires him and asked his name: it is Will James, author of the book "How to get Rich in the West". Given the effectiveness of James, Truth takes his optimism and instills it in his companions.