Compañeros

Dec 18, 1970

2h 0m

★ 6.5

Fate brought them together, greed made them inseparable, and violence made them Compañeros!

Overview

Arms dealer Yolaf Peterson aims to make a sale to guerilla Mongo, but the money is locked in a bank safe, the combination known only to Professor Xantos, a prisoner of the Americans. Yolaf agrees to free Xantos, accompanied by reluctant guerilla Basco, but a former business partner of Yolaf's- John 'The Wooden Hand', has other ideas.

Genres

Western

Production Companies

Tritone Cinematografica

Atlántida Films

Terra-Filmkunst

Compañeros Trailers

Cast

Yodlaf Peterson

Franco Nero

El Vasco

Tomas Milian

John

Jack Palance

Prof. Xantos

Fernando Rey

Lola

Iris Berben

General Mongo Alvarez

José Bódalo

Zaire Harris

Karin Schubert

Colonel

Eduardo Fajardo

Tourneur

Gino Pernice

Tiger

Tito García

Lieutenant

Gérard Tichy

Captain Jim

Lorenzo Robledo

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