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6/10
Riotous Western spoof by Mariano Ozores paying tribute to Paella/Spagheti genre
ma-cortes3 July 2022
This wacky spoof with raunchy and amusing gags is packed with lots of silly laughters , great entertainment and lots of fun . Most of the laughs and sight gags galore work acceptably and the jokes come machine-gun rapidly . Concerning the jabbering Bill 'Golden Guns' (Fernando Esteso) is hired to free a town from its nasty outlaws . Although reluctant due to he wants to remain unnoticed, Bill goes into action , but things go wrong when the Mayor's (Conrado San Martin) daughter (Adriana Vega) is abducted by outlaws to take a valuable reward. And the situation gets complicated when Bill joins forces with two botcher companions : Polonio Horacio Platón (Antonio Ozores) and Indian Blackandecker (Juanito Navarro) . The newly contracted drifter to foil the plans of the two villainous bandits (Fernando Sancho and José Manuel Martin).

This likable silly farce with numberless comedy set pieces results to be an very amusing and entertaining story in the wake of the farceur Mel Brooks and its ¨Blazing saddles¨. This bemusing movie is packed with tongue-in-cheeck , slapdash and slapstick , a steady stream of gags , diverting situations abound , sheer belly laughs , crazy humor and too much fun . It contains simple and gross humor and lots of entertainment and fun . The spoof is surrealist , extreme and gross-out with the ordinary bunch of loonies and loopies , but is also bold and intelligent with a myriad of imaginative sketches with no sense , many of them unabashedly tasteless .The picture contains an unstopped string of gags each thirty seconds and silly jokes from the start to the ending , adding some embarrassing touches . The comedy and humor are interminable that's why the viewers will laugh uncontrollably with the habitual quirky and lunatic characters . The always hilarious Fernando Esteso steals the show , as he puts paces, grimaces , sings and overacting by means of excessive mimic gesticulation . Furthermore , provides a sprinkling of self-parodic guest stars , such as : Antonio Ozores , Juanito Navarro, Luis Barbero , Adrian Ortega, Francisco Camoiras , Pilar Bardem , Víctor Israel , Emilio Fornet . Including some actors who were regular in Spaghetti/Paella Western sub-genre , such as : Tito Garcia , Conrado San Martín , José Manuel Martín and of course the great Fernando Sancho playing his costumary role as a gabbling Mexican . And ordinary ¨Destape¨actresses , such as : África Pratt , Maite Sancho who's daughter of Fernando Sancho and Adriana Vega . The screenplay by Antonio Ozores himself shows a melange of styles from nutty comedy to Western and some bad taste . Lively and enjoyable musical score by Gregorio García Segura with catching songs sung by Fernando Esteso . Being shot on the regular locations where in the 60s and 70s were shot lots of Spaghetti/Paella Westerns such as Desert of Tabernas , Almeria , and Manzanares del Real , La Pedriza , Colmenar Viejo , Madrid.

The picture was professionally directed by the prolífic Mariano Ozores. As Mariano Ozores wrote , produced and directed, but it was a limited success. Mariano directed 93 films , most of them were comedies , though made some dramas as "Alegre Juventud" and "Las Dos y Media y veneno" with José Luis Ozores . Mariano directed a lot of comedies for the greatest Spanish comedians as Paco Martinez Soria , José Luis López Vázquez , Lina Morgan , Alfredo Landa , Jose Sacristán and the successful duo : Fernando Esteso and Andrés Pajares . And he even directed a Sci-Fi movie ¨La hora incógnita¨ (1964) that failed at boxoffice , then Mariano promised at the future only to make comedies, but it won prize of the National Syndicate of Spectacle to best actor José Luis Ozores and Best artistic Achievement. Al este del oeste (1984) , rating : 5.5/10. The film will appeal to absurd , unruly ,wacky comedy fans . Packing some sexual gags with occasional adult content and profanities ; if it weren't in such raunchy humor , it would be perfect for the kiddies and adolescents . This raucous Western spoof is a Fernando Esteso/Antonio Ozores vehicle , if you like his crazy, maniac performances ,you'll enjoy this one .
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10/10
Brilliant parody
agullox24 November 2003
A brilliant parody of classic western, with a great humor sense. It's full of brilliant jokes, I could not stop laughing. And the soundtrack is superb, great ... an 'spanglish' mix: "they goooooo for todo el oeste..." For me, 10/10
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10/10
Entertained spaguetti western led for FERNANDO ESTESO
IsmaRubio29 June 2002
Marian ozores directs this Spanish spaguetti western led by your brother Antonio Ozores and Fernando Esteso the whole movie is a parody of the cinema western in general, but everything is very enterteining and brilliant. All jokes, girls, erotic situations, action .... everything is brilliant. Incredible the song of the beginning sung by the own FERNANDO ESTESO, who interprets here BILLY golden pistols, the best gunman of any west. Adriana vega and Africa pratt exceptional it is your respective roles.
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