Whisky and Ghosts

Whiskey e fantasmi – Italian title

Fantasma en el Oeste – Spanish title

Whisky y fantasmas – Spanish title

Hayaletler – Turkish title

Whisky and Ghosts – English title

 

A 1974 Italian, Spanish co-production [Compagnia Cinematografica Champion (Rome), CIPI (Madrid)]

Producer: Carlo Ponti

Director: Anthony M. Dawson (Antonio Margheriti)

Story: Gianni Simonelli, Antonio Margheriti

Screenplay: Gianni Simonelli, Antonio Margheriti, Miguel De Echarri

Cinematography: Alejandro Ulloa [Technicolor, Techniscope]

Music: Paolo Vasile

Running time: 104 minutes

 

Cast:

Napoleon B. Higgins – Tom Scott (Alberto Terracina)

Davy Crockett – Fred Harris (Fernando Bilbao)

Captain Garcia – Ricardo Palacios

Rosy – Maribel Martin

Pecos Bill – George Rigaud

Paco – Rafael Albaicin

Rosy’s grandmother – Elsa Zabala

Barman – Daniele de Luca

Johnny Appleseed – Franco Ferracini

With: Manuel de Blas, Barta Barri, Maribel Hidalgo, Luis Barboo, Frank Braña (Francisco Pérez)

 

 

The young Napoleon Higgins roams the West selling the elixir of life. One day, a group of angry customers, ties him up and he ends up if an Indian burial ground where he encounters the ghost of the legendary Davy Crockett, and from that moment takes him under his wing. Thanks to Davy, Napoleon escapes the gang of the Mexican Garcia, and returns the favor by trying to return to Davy an old friend, Katie, custodian of the secret of a treasure. In the company of Rosy, the pretty niece of this woman, they head for Dusty City. During the journey Garcia returns and attacks Higgins, but suffers a humiliating defeat by Napoleon, thanks to the help of his invisible friend. With his new found courage, he must once again deal with the raging Garcia and the man who secretly directs the actions of the gang. They want to seize Katie’s treasure of Katie, but again frustrated by the actions of Crockett and the ghosts of Pecos Bill and Johnny Appleseed. The treasure turns out to be a thousand cases of whiskey. Napoleon and Rosy, who become husband and wife, open a profitable saloon.