Dynamite Jack

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Dynamite Jack
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Directed by Jean Bastia
Written by Jack Ary
Jacques Emmanuel
Jean Manse
Jean Bastia
Produced by Jacques-Paul Bertrand
Starring Fernandel
Eleonora Vargas
Lucien Raimbourg
Cinematography Roger Hubert
Edited by Jacques Desagneaux
Music by Pascal Bastia
Jean-Pierre Landreau
Production
companies
Les Productions Jacques-Paul Bertrand
Federal International Films
Variety Film
Cineraid
Distributed bySociété Nouvelle de Cinématographie
Release date
  • 3 November 1961 (1961-11-03)
Running time
103 minutes
CountriesFrance
Italy
Language French

Dynamite Jack is a 1961 French-Italian comedy western film directed by Jean Bastia and starring Fernandel, Eleonora Vargas and Lucien Raimbourg. [1] A Frenchman moves to Arizona in the Wild West era, only to find he is the exact image of the notorious local outlaw Dynamite Jack.

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The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Giordani.

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  1. Walker p.198

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