Summaries

Civil War union soldiers purchase a shipment of gold from a Mexican banker. They need to get the gold to its destination. However along the way, a gang of crooks, the unethical banker & his gang, and Dynamite Jim all decide that they want to get their hands on the gold also.—rabbit

Details

Keywords
  • character name as title
  • spaghetti western
  • old west
  • horse
  • nickname as title
Genres
  • Drama
  • Western
Release date Aug 11, 1966
Countries of origin Italy Spain
Language Spanish Italian
Filming locations Fraga, Huesca, Aragon, Spain
Production companies Balcázar Producciones Cinematográficas Lux Film Producciones Cinematográficas Balcazar

Box office

Tech specs

Runtime 1h 25m
Aspect ratio 2.35 : 1

Synopsis

Dynamite Jim starts off with a fun opening credits photo montage of characters from the film. It tends to center on the sexy female cast members of Rosalba Neri & Maria Pia Conte.

The film starts with Civil War union soldiers purchasing a shipment of gold from a Mexican banker. This banker is, of course, unethical and hires outlaw Slate (Aldo Sambrell) to follow the shipment and steal it back. We are then introduced to our hero Jim (Luis Dávila) who is playing poker and entertaining married women in a saloon. To get away from the women's husbands, Jim escapes on the pinto pony that belongs to the man hired by the Union Army to get the gold shipment to its destination.

As Jim arrives in another town, he is targeted by a second group of crooks headed by Pablo (Fernando Sancho) who mistakenly recognize him as the gold courier by the horse he is riding. After escaping an attempt on his life that results in Jim running around town in only his underwear, he meets up with the beautiful Union Army agent Margaret played by Rosalba Neri. She also believes him to be the official courier and shows him where the gold is hidden and what the plans are for its transportation.

Pablo & his gang pose as circus performers and steal gold hidden under the stage in the saloon. Margaret accuses Jim of being in on plot to steal gold when the real courier shows up in town. Pablo & his gang find out that gold is fake so they capture Jim and are about to torture him with a sombrero filled with hornets when Slate & his gang of outlaws show up. Huge gunfight occurs and Jim is able to get away.

Margaret tells her lover, a Confederate Captain, a story about her husband dying in the war. When an undertaker show up with a coffin, everyone quickly figures out it contains contains the missing gold. Slate's gang go the bathhouse to confront the undertaker & a fist fight starts with all the men wearing only towels.

Pablo & his gang steal the coffin with gold from the church & replace it with a real coffin with the dead body of the undertaker. The banker & his hired gang headed by Slate ambush Margaret as she tries to leave with the casket. They open it to reveal the dead undertaker. Soldiers show up & come to her rescue & kill the gang.

As Pablo rides out of town with coffin filled with gold, Jim hides under the wagon. Jim beats up Pablo who ends up crashing down hill and gets killed when the coffin falls on him. The casket is empty with no gold inside. Jim then realizes that the coffin itself is made of gold. Jim & the women end up in Paris rich & happy.

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