Dynamite Jack

Antoine Espérandieu, a French tenderfoot, lands in Windows Canyon, Arizona, a remote place under the thumb of dangerous outlaw Dynamite Jack, only to discover the friend he was to meet there has been murdered. Worse, it is not long before Antoine realizes he is Jack's perfect lookalike. All the same, he decides to settle down in the small town, where he becomes the local tax collector. One day, he finds himself face to face with the bandit...

Cast

Fernandel

as Dynamite Jack / Antoine Espérandieu

Eleonora Vargas

as Dolores

Lucien Raimbourg

as Sheriff Scotty

Jess Hahn

as Sergeant Bob

Adrienne Corri

as Pegeen O'Brien

Georges Lycan

as Louis le Borgne

Claude d'Yd

as

Todd Martin

as

Viviane Méry

as

Margaret Russell

as

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