A lone daisy sparks a town, chaos follows, and a cowboy who outdraws his own shadow cleans up.
When the members of a caravan of pioneers find a daisy growing in the middle of the desert they decide to stop there and to build their town on this very spot. Houses soon spring up like mushrooms, immediately followed by a bank, a saloon, a prison, etc. Daisy Town is born. Unfortunately a city does not go without its bad boys and the peaceful place is soon turned into a lawless place. To restore law and order, a lawman is needed. Lucky Luke, the cowboy who shoots faster than his shadow, will be this man: all the villains had better watch out!
Direction
Goscinny translates Morris's ligne claire panels into fluid, gag-dense animation.
Writing
Satirical jabs at Western tropes that predate Blazing Saddles' similar targets.
Sound
Claude Bolling's jaunty score keeps the hooves clip-clopping and the mood buoyant.
Director
René Goscinny
Marcel Bozzuffi
Lucky Luke (voice)
Pierre Trabaud
Joe Dalton (voice)
Jacques Balutin
William Dalton / Un parieur (voice)
Jacques Jouanneau
Jack Dalton (voice)
Jean Berger
Jolly Jumper (voice)
Pierre Tornade
Averell Dalton / Un parieur (voice)
Roger Carel
Le croquemort / Le vautour / Le lieutenant de cavalerie / Le capitaine de cavalerie / Le vieux (voice)
Jacques Fabbri
Le maire (voice)
Jacques Legras
Le guichetier de la banque (voice)
Jacques Bodoin
Clem (voice)
Georges Atlas
Le barman (voice)
André Le Gall
Jacques Hilling
Le rédacteur en chef / Le sergent de cavalerie (voice)
Rosy Varte
Lulu Carabine (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Goscinny co-directed this the same year Asterix and the Big Fight released—1971 was peak Franco-Belgian comic domination.
Daisy Town arrived when Spaghetti Westerns ruled; its gentle parody offered Europeans a way to love and mock American myth simultaneously.
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