Two friends help Sam Houston work for Texas statehood. Johnny Ears and his deaf-mute sidekick Erastus "Deaf" Smith go after a Mexican general under orders from Germany to agitate the populace.

Franco Nero
as Johnny Ears

Anthony Quinn
as Erastus 'Deaf' Smith

Pamela Tiffin
as Susie the hooker

Ira von Fürstenberg
as Hester McDonald Morton

Adolfo Lastretti
as Williams

Franco Graziosi
as General Lucius Morton

Antonino Faà di Bruno
as The Senator

Renato Romano
as J.M. Hoffman

Francesca Benedetti
as Mrs. Porter the Madame

Conchita Airoldi
as Rosita McDonald