''Holy Water Joe'' () is a 1971 Italian

Spaghetti Western The spaghetti Western is a broad subgenre of Western films produced in Europe. It emerged in the mid-1960s in the wake of Sergio Leone's filmmaking style and international box-office success. The term was used by foreign critics because most o ...

film directed by Mario Gariazzo.

Plot

In the immediate aftermath of the

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(1861-1865), Jeff Donovan's outlaw gang, disguised as soldiers of both the Confederacy and the Union, rob banks, using a cannon concealed in a wagon. A man about town, by the name of Holy Water Joe (called such to differentiate between him and his father, Fire Water Joe), finds himself penniless when all his savings are gone, due to a bank robbery by the Donovan gang. Joe finds an opportunity to recoup some of his losses when he captures a deserter from the gang and sells him to Donovan, that creates double dealing and gunplay.

Cast

* Lincoln Tate as Holy Water Joe *

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as Jeff Donovan * Richard Harrison as Charlie Bennett * Giulio Baraghini as Jim (credited as Lee Banner) * Silvia Monelli as Estella * Tuccio Musumeci as The Sicilian * Pietro Ceccarelli as Sergeant Butch * Dante Maggio as The Banker * Mario Novelli as Donovan Henchman

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* 1971 films 1970s Western (genre) comedy films Spaghetti Western films 1970s Italian-language films English-language Italian films Films scored by Marcello Giombini Films set in the 1860s 1971 comedy films 1970s Italian films Films directed by Mario Gariazzo {{1970s-Western-film-stub