A professor in Italy has created a time machine, and the FBI wants to know more.
So the FBI chief sends the three Supermen — George Martin as George, Sal Borgese as Sal and Frank Brana as Brad — to investigate.
They infiltrate Professor Panzarotti’s laboratory with relative ease, but wind up accidentally activating the machine once they climb in.
Next thing you know, they’re zipping through time and land smack dab in the middle of a stagecoach robbery in the Old West.
With Sal leading the way, they save a damsel in distress. But by the time they’ve done that, bandit leader Navajo Joe (Ignazio Spalla) has vamoosed with the time machine.
Still wearing their bright red Supermen outfits, the three agents decide they’d better change into Western duds if they’re ever going to fit in and find the time machine they’ve lost.
They wind up kidnapping a lovely blonde (Agata Lys as Yolanda) to gain entrance to Navajo Joe’s hideout, then rob a bank in order to get the time machine back.
But Navajo Joe’s still reluctant to turn over the key to the room where he has the time machine locked away for safe keeping.
Sal Borgese as Sal, George Martin as George and Frank Brana as Brad in the time machine in Three Supermen of the West (1973)
Pedro Sanchez as Navajo Joe, showing off the key to the room where the time machine is kept in Three Supermen of the West (1973)
Review:
Ever think you’d see a Western where three superheroes in a time machine land atop a stagecoach in the middle of a holdup?
Watch this, and you’ll be able to say, “Yes, I have.”
And that’s only part of the silliness in a film that includes two robotic gorillas serving as guards to a professor’s lab, Cris Huerta’s stomach used as a trampoline during a barroom brawl, an outlaw lieutenant who can’t decide which eye needs a patch and a sheriff who knits to calm himself down.
It all leads to a wild finish in which Sal Borgese’s character wraps the prized key in his derby hat, forming a soccer ball of sorts. Then a climatic — and very prolonged — game of keep-away begins between our superheroes and the bad guys.
And wait til you see what happens when that “soccer ball” conks Navajo Joe’s wheelchair-bound mother on the noggin.
All that said, Agata Lys’ smile is likely to be the highlight of this film for fans of more serious Italian Westerns
George Martin as George, playing gentleman during a bank robbery in Three Supermen of the West (1973)
Sal Borgese as Sal, the always hungry superman, spying a potential meal in Three Supermen of the West (1973)
Directed by:
Italo Martinenghi
Cast:
George Martin … George
Sal Borgese … Sal
Frank Brana …. Brad
Ignazio Spalla … Navajo Joe
as Pedro Sanchez
Fernando Sanchez … FBI chief
Agata Lys … Yolanda
Cris Huerta … Crystal Eye / Jack Patch
Fernando Bilbao … Sheriff Canticchia
as Fred Harrison
Claudio Yabes … Deputy
Antonio Casas … Reverend
Luigi Bonos …. Professor Ariside Panzarotti
as Gigi Bonos
Jose Canalejas … Buffalo Bill
Also with: Julio Perez Tabernero, Luis Barboo, Vitorrio Fanfoni, Victor Israel, Barta Berry, Angelo Santaniello, Jean Claudio, Luigi Antonio Guerra, Gianclaudio Jabes
Runtime: 95 min.
aka:
e cosi divennero i 3 supermen del West
Los tres superhombres en el Oeste
Music: Robert Progadio
Song: “Supermen, Supermen” sung by Bob Deramont
Frank Branna as Brad, posing as a monk in order to fool a reverend in Three Supermen of the West (1973)
Agata Lys as Yolanda, humored as she watches the supermen get the better of Navajo Joe in Three Supermen of the West (1973)
Trivia:
* This was part of the Three Supermen film series, which began with “Three Fantastic Supermen” (1967) as the heroes try to solve a case involving radioactive counterfeit money.
* The original was directed by Gianfranco Parolini. Yep, the same guy who directed all three Sabata films, plus “If You Meet Sartana, Pray for Your Death “ (1968) and “God’s Gun” (1975). He did not direct any of the Three Supermen sequels.
* The original three Supermen included Brad Harris and Tony Kendall, two faces familiar to fans of Spaghetti Westerns.
* Agata Lys appeared in two other Westerns — “In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Colt” (1971) and “Tequila” (1973). In 1976, she starred in “La nueva Marilyn.”
Sal Borgese as Sal, Frank Brana as Brad and George Martin as George, three supermen visiting the saloon in Three Supermen of the West (1973)
Cris Huerta as Jack Patch, an ally of Navajo Joe in Three Supermen of the West (1973)
Fernando Bilbao (Fred Harrison) as sheriff, trying to put an end of the nonsense in Three Supermen of the West (1973)
Jose Canalejas as Buffalo Bill, a sheriff’s deputy practicing his gun tricks in Three Supermen of the West (1973)
Barta Barry as the saloon owner, guarding a prized vase during a barroom brawl in Three Supermen of the West (1973)
Fernando Sancho as the FBI director, assigning Brad the mission of finding the time machine in Three Supermen of the West (1973)
Agata Lys as Yolanda and Navajo Joe’s mother watching the battle of keep-away in Three Supermen of the West (1973). Does anyone know who plays the latter role?
Frank Brana as Brad, Sal Borgese as Sal and George Martin as George in Three Supermen of the West (1973)
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