Tongue-in-cheek spaghetti western in Terence Hill and Bud Spencer style with a lot of entertainment and amusement. It deals with a roguish young called Napoleone B. Higgins : Alberto Terracina who's protected by the spirits of Davey Crockett, Pecos Bill and Johnny Appleseed. While escaping from some bandits he meets at a cave the ghost of Davey Crockett: big , burly Fernando Bilbao and both of whom forming an outandish couple of good guys fending off the bad guys . Along the way, a gang led by a Mexican bandit : Ricardo Palacios attempting to take a gold shipment and attacking a train. Meanwhile, other notorious Western historic personages are appearing, such as Pecos Bill and Johnny Appleseed .
A idiotic and mindless Spanish/Italian Western with hilarious moments, surrealist scenes, toilet humor, train assaults, fights and shootouts. The flick bears remarkable resemblance to Trinidad and Bambino films , including crossfire with no blood , explosion, slapping , kick-ass , punches and anything else . Stars Alberto Terracina as Tom Scott and Fernando Bilbao as Fred Harris, and both of them giving sympathetic interpretations as two utterly inept and hopeless roles : on the one hand a rogue snake-oil salesman and the other hand his drunk , lunkhead sidekick . In fact this film is in similar style to "Mr Hercules against Karate" that both protagonists starred in 1973 directed by Antonio Margheriti himself . Here the main diversion results to be to look for the large number of secondaries appearing here and there, most of them usual in Spaghetti Western and the Spanish/Italian sub-genres in the 60s and 70s , such as : Maribel Martin as the damsel in distress saved by the unfortunate antihero , Ricardo Palacios, George Rigaud , Rafael Albaicín, Barta Barri, Manuel de Blas, Frank Braña, Fabian Conde , Maribel Hidalgo, and Luis Barboo.
It displays a colorful cinematography by expert Alejandro Ulloa who previously photographed the clasic Horror Express . This dumb slapstick produced in medium budget by prestigious Carlo Ponti and Miguel Echarri was middlingly directed by Antonio Margheriti . This Italian writer-producer-director of horror , Peplum , Spaghetti and exploitation films, a former university engineering student who began in films in 1956. He was also an expert in special optical effects and model-making. Often used the pseudonym 'Anthony M. Dawson'. Antonio was a good craftsman who made all kinds of genres , such as Wartime : The Last Hunter , Tornado , The Commander , Code Name Wild Geese . Adventures : The Golden Arrow , Ark of the sun...temple of hall , Jungle Raiders, Treasure Island , Mister Invisible . Spaghetti Western : And god David to Cain, Dakota Joe, Vengeance , Joe the Implacable , The Stranger and the Gunfighter, Take a hard ride . Terror : Virgin of Nuremberg ,Web of Spider , Seven dead in the cat's eye , The long hair of death , Castle of blood , Horror Castle , Cannibal in the streets . Science Fiction : Yor the Hunter from the future , War of the planets , Wild Wild Planets . Peplum : Hercules prisoner of evil, Giants of Rome , The Slave merchants ,The Fall of Rome. Thriller : Operation Goldman, , Killers are challenged, The Squeeze , Death Rage. Rating : 4/10. Below average.
