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...
Acting
Fernandel plays both timid clerk and swaggering outlaw—pure elastic genius.
Production
French crew faking Arizona so hard it becomes its own dreamy unreality.
Costume
The visual gag of identical outfits on utterly opposite men.
Director
Jean Bastia
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Fernandel was France's biggest star, so of course they imported him to the American West—complete with his trademark horse teeth and nervous energy.
Windows Canyon doesn't exist; the film shot in Spain's Tabernas Desert, already doubling for Arizona in countless spaghetti westerns that hadn't even been made yet.
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