''His Name Was Holy Ghost'' (, , also known as ''They Call Him Holy Ghost'' and ''El halcón de Sierra Madre'') is a 1972 Italian-Spanish

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

Giuliano Carnimeo Giuliano Carnimeo (born Carmineo; 4 July 1932 – 10 September 2016) was an Italian director and screenwriter, sometimes credited as Anthony Ascott or Antony Ascot. Life and career Born in Bari, Carmineo started his career as assistant direct ...

and starring

Gianni Garko Gianni Garko (born Giovanni Garcovich; 15 July 1935) is a retired Croats of Italy, Croatian-Italian actor. He found fame as a leading man in 1960s Spaghetti Westerns, where he was often billed as John Garko and occasionally Gary Hudson. He is per ...

, and is the follow-up to ''

They Call Him Cemetery ''They Call Me Cemetery'' (, also known as ''His Pistols Smoked... They Call Him Cemetery'' and ''A Bullet for a Stranger'') is a 1971 Italian Spaghetti Western film directed by Giuliano Carnimeo and starring Gianni Garko. It was followed by '' H ...

''. It received a belated UK release in 1976 under the title ''Blazing Guns'' as a supporting film to '' Monsters From an Unknown Planet''.

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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.

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* Spanish Western (genre) films Spaghetti Western films 1972 Western (genre) films 1972 films Films directed by Giuliano Carnimeo Films scored by Bruno Nicolai Films produced by Ricardo Sanz 1970s Italian films 1970s Italian-language films Italian-language Western (genre) films {{1970s-Italy-film-stub

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