# His Name Was Holy Ghost

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1972 film

His Name Was Holy Ghost Directed by Giuliano Carnimeo Written by Tito Carpi Federico De Urrutia Produced by Luciano Martino Starring Gianni Garko Pilar Velázquez Cinematography Miguel Fernández Mila Music by Bruno Nicolai Release date 1972 (1972) Language Italian

***His Name Was Holy Ghost*** ([Italian](/source/Italian_language): *Uomo avvisato mezzo ammazzato... parola di Spirito Santo*, [Spanish](/source/Spanish_language): *...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](/source/Spaghetti_Western) film directed by [Giuliano Carnimeo](/source/Giuliano_Carnimeo) and starring [Gianni Garko](/source/Gianni_Garko), and is the follow-up to *[They Call Him Cemetery](/source/They_Call_Him_Cemetery)*. It received a belated UK release in 1976 under the title ***Blazing Guns*** as a supporting film to *[Monsters From an Unknown Planet](/source/Terror_of_Mechagodzilla)*.[1][2]

## 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

- [Gianni Garko](/source/Gianni_Garko) as Holy Ghost

- [Pilar Velázquez](/source/Pilar_Vel%C3%A1zquez) as Juana Mendoza

- Paul Stevens as Samuel Crow

- [Víctor Israel](/source/V%C3%ADctor_Israel) as The Priest

- Poldo Bendandi as General Ubarte

- [Cris Huerta](/source/Cris_Huerta) as Carezza

- [Jorge Rigaud](/source/Jorge_Rigaud) as Don Firmino Mednoza

- [Nello Pazzafini](/source/Nello_Pazzafini) as Colonel

- [Fortunato Arena](/source/Fortunato_Arena) as Colonel Matadodos

- Aldo Barberito as Friar John

- Carlo Gaddi as Captain Fiesta

- [Franco Pesce](/source/Franco_Pesce) as Engineer Hernandez

- [Rick Boyd](/source/Rick_Boyd) as Vern Crohn

- Monica Altomonte

- [Salvatore Baccaro](/source/Salvatore_Baccaro) as Spirito Santo's Men

- Pietro Ceccarelli

- Pasquale Coletta

- Maria D'Incoronato

- [Gildo Di Marco](/source/Gildo_Di_Marco) as Spirito Santo's Men

- Evi Farinelli as Wendy

- Lina Ferri

- [Dada Gallotti](/source/Dada_Gallotti) as May

- [Mario Gas](/source/Mario_Gas)

- Italo Guitto

- Gianclaudio Jabes as Spirito Santo's Men

- Carla Mancini

- [Furio Meniconi](/source/Furio_Meniconi)

- [Ricardo Moyán](/source/Ricardo_Moy%C3%A1n) as Drunk

- [César Ojinaga](/source/C%C3%A9sar_Ojinaga) as Soldier

- José Palomo as Fight Spectator

- Riccardo Petrazzi

- [Mimmo Poli](/source/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](/source/List_of_Italian_films_of_1972)

- [List of Spanish films of 1972](/source/List_of_Spanish_films_of_1972)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-sed_1-0)** Marco Giusti (2007). *Dizionario del western all'italiana*. Mondadori, 2007. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-8804572770](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-8804572770).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Mereghetti_2-0)** Paolo Mereghetti. *Il Mereghetti - Dizionario dei film*. B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [8860736269](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/8860736269).

## External links

- [*His Name Was Holy Ghost*](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065991/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb_(identifier))

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