His Name Was Holy Ghost

{{short description|1972 film}} {{Infobox film | name = His Name Was Holy Ghost | image = His Name Was Holy Ghost poster.jpg | producer = [[Luciano Martino]] | director = [[Giuliano Carnimeo]] | story = | writer = Tito Carpi <br /> Federico De Urrutia | starring = [[Gianni Garko]] <br />[[Pilar Velázquez]] | music = [[Bruno Nicolai]] | cinematography = Miguel Fernández Mila | released = {{Film date|1972}} | language = [[Italian language|Italian]] }} '''''His Name Was Holy Ghost''''' ({{langx|it|Uomo avvisato mezzo ammazzato... parola di Spirito Santo}}, {{langx|es|...Y le llamaban El Halcón}}, also known as ''They Call Him Holy Ghost'' and ''El halcón de Sierra Madre'') is a 1972 Italian-Spanish [[Spaghetti Western]] film directed by [[Giuliano Carnimeo]] and starring [[Gianni Garko]], and is the follow-up to ''[[They Call Him Cemetery]]''. It received a belated UK release in 1976 under the title '''''Blazing Guns''''' as a supporting film to ''[[Terror of Mechagodzilla|Monsters From an Unknown Planet]]''.<ref name=sed>{{cite book|last=Marco Giusti|title=Dizionario del western all'italiana|year=2007|publisher=Mondadori, 2007|isbn=978-8804572770}}</ref><ref name=Mereghetti>{{cite book|last=Paolo Mereghetti|title=Il Mereghetti - Dizionario dei film|publisher=B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010|isbn=8860736269}}</ref>

==Plot== A mysterious stranger named Holy Ghost joins forces with a beautiful Mexican revolutionary girl and her father to overthrow a ruthless general and rescue a man who knows the location of a mine, which has been won by Holy Ghost in a poker game.

== Cast == {{columnslist| * [[Gianni Garko]] as Holy Ghost * [[Pilar Velázquez]] as Juana Mendoza * Paul Stevens as Samuel Crow * [[Víctor Israel]] as The Priest * Poldo Bendandi as General Ubarte * [[Cris Huerta]] as Carezza * [[Jorge Rigaud]] as Don Firmino Mednoza * [[Nello Pazzafini]] as Colonel * [[Fortunato Arena]] as Colonel Matadodos * Aldo Barberito as Friar John * Carlo Gaddi as Captain Fiesta * [[Franco Pesce]] as Engineer Hernandez * [[Rick Boyd]] as Vern Crohn * Monica Altomonte * [[Salvatore Baccaro]] as Spirito Santo's Men * Pietro Ceccarelli * Pasquale Coletta * Maria D'Incoronato * [[Gildo Di Marco]] as Spirito Santo's Men * Evi Farinelli as Wendy * Lina Ferri * [[Dada Gallotti]] as May * [[Mario Gas]] * Italo Guitto * Gianclaudio Jabes as Spirito Santo's Men * Carla Mancini * [[Furio Meniconi]] * [[Ricardo Moyán]] as Drunk * [[César Ojinaga]] as Soldier * José Palomo as Fight Spectator * Riccardo Petrazzi * [[Mimmo Poli]] as Barman * Gianni Pulone * Moisés Augusto Rocha as Boxing coach * Thomas Rudy as Lieutenant * Claudio Ruffini as Poker Player * Amerigo Santarelli as Spirito Santo's Men * Maurizio Tocchi * Juan Torres as Esteban * Fredy Unger as Cpt. Ortega * Ettore Arena as Soldier * Mario Dardanelli as Soldier * Roberto Dell'Acqua as Card Player * Alberigo Donadeo as Soldier of General Ubarte * Marcello Meconizzi as Ubarte Soldier }}

==See also== * [[List of Italian films of 1972]] * [[List of Spanish films of 1972]]

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *{{IMDb title|0065991}}

[[Category:Spanish Western (genre) films]] [[Category:Spaghetti Western films]] [[Category:1972 Western (genre) films]] [[Category:1972 films]] [[Category:Films directed by Giuliano Carnimeo]] [[Category:Films scored by Bruno Nicolai]] [[Category:Films produced by Ricardo Sanz]] [[Category:1972 Italian films]] [[Category:1972 Italian-language films]] [[Category:Italian-language Western (genre) films]]