Pili and Mili play Jenn and Sally Parker, twin sisters who travel the West with their grandpa’s medicine show.
He sells exilir. And when sales are slow, Jenny and Sally drum up interest with sharp-shooting demonstrations.
Their biggest worry is that grandpa has a gambling problem, quickly losing their earning so they’re right back on the road again.
At their latest stop, the twins demand their grandpa turn over the day’s earnings, only to realize he’s fooled them by handing over two real bills with a stack of newsprint in between.
He’s slipped off to a poker table again. But this time, the result is different. Tragically so.
With an entire ranch up for stakes, a dispute over cheating breaks out between the man who owns the ranch and the neighboring rancher who wants it.
Gunfire is exchanged. Grandpa Parker is accidentally shot, falling dead on the poker table, in the process revealing that he had the winning hand.
Once they put their grief aside, it’s a happy turn of events for the twins, who finally find themselves with a home that isn’t on wheels.
And that’s especially true since Sally has been smitten with a railroad engineer (Rogelio Madrid) and Jenny is sparring with a rancher’s son (Sean Flynn as Jimmy).
Then the problems begin.
Seems everyone wants the land now owned by Sally and Jenny. Perhaps because the railroad might run through the property. Perhaps because oil has been discovered there.
And someone has poisoned the herd of a neighboring rancher. And they’re trying mighty hard to pin the blame on the twins.
Pili (Pilar Bayona) as Jenny, presenting a card as a target for her sharp-shooting sister in Two Guns for Two Twins (1966)
Mili (Emilia Bayona) as Sally, ready to demonstrate her six-gun skill in Two Guns for Two Twins (1966)
Review:
A song-and-dance comedy Western that’s more entertaining than you’re likely to suspect when you push play. It’s certainly better than most of the post-Trinity Spaghetti comedies that would follow.
Pili and Mili make for a cute and likeable duo. The former plays Jenny, the meaner, tougher sister here; Mili is more loving and tender as Sally.
That said, they decide to change personas at one point to fool the guys in whom they’ve taken an interest.
But in spite of their abilities with a gun, the end-of-film heroics are left entirely to the males in the cast.
By that point, Flynn has been kidnapped and is being held for $50,000 in ransom while the railroad engineer has been tossed in jail on a trumped-up murder charge.
Curiously, the film opens with the theme for “How the West Was Won.”
Sean Flynn as Jimmy, son of Slatery, coming to Monahan’s defense in Two Guns for Two Twins (1966)
Rogelio Madrid as Robert Clark, the railroad engineer accused of murder in Two Guns for Two Twins (1966)
Directed by:
Rafael Romero Marchent
Cast:
Pilar Bayona … Jenny
as Pili
Emilia Bayona … Sally
as Mili
Sean Flynn … Jimmy
George Rigaud … Slatery
Beni Deus … Monahan
Rogelio Madrid … Robert Clark
Renato Baldini … Farrell
Eva Guerr … Maggie
Luis Induni … Sheriff
Also with: José Sepúlveda, Giacomo Furia, José Orjas, Ricardo Rodríguez, Mario Morales, Guillermo Méndez, Gonzalo Esquiroz, José Uria, Juan Maján, Rossella Bergamonti, María Bárbara, Dolores Guerrero, Alfonso Veady
Runtime: 93 min.
Music: Gregorio Garcia Segura
aka:
Dos pistolas gemelas
Sharp-Shooting Twin Sisters
Vengeance Ranch
Woman for Ringo
Luis Induni as the sheriff caught in the middle of a feud between two ranchers in Two Guns for Two Twins (1966)
Renato Baldini as Farrell, a fast gun working with the sheriff in Two Guns for Two Twins (1966)
Memorable lines:
Sorry, I watched the Spanish version of this film.
Trivia:
* This was the 4th of 10 films released between 1963 and 1970 featuring twin sisters Emilia and Pilar Bayona, who were born on Feb. 10, 1947.
* Mili retired from acting at age 22 after the release of the last of those films. Pili appeared in two more films and enjoyed an active television career in Spain and Mexico.
* Sean Flynn, son of Errol, appeared in 11 films before disappearing while covering the Vietnam War in the Cambodia area. His other Spaghetti Western was 1966’s “Seven Magnificent Guns.” He also played the lead role in “Duel at the Rio Grande” (aka “Sign of Zorro”), released in 1963.
Pili (PIlar Bayona) as Jennny and Mili (Emilia Bayona) as Sally, realizing their grandpa has slipped out to play poker again in Two Guns for Two Twins (1966)
The twins grandpa sneaks away for a game of poker in Two Guns for Two Twins (1966). Can anyone identify the actor in this role?
Colton, thre previous owner of the ranch the twins wind up owning in Two Guns for Two Twins (1966). Can anyone identify the actor playing this role?
Pili (Pilar Bayona) as Jenny, smitten by Jmmy in Two Guns for Two Twins (1966)
Mili (Emilia Bayona) as Sally, her thoughts more on a railroad engineer than the ranch in Two Guns for Two Twins (1966)
Beni Deus as Monahan, the loan cowhand working for the twins in Two Guns for Two Twins (1966)
Eva Guerr as the twin’s helper Maggie, watching them ride off in Two Guns for Two Twins (1966)
George Rigaud as Slatery, the rancher who wants the land the twins wind up on in Two Guns for Two Twins (1966)
Sean Flynn as Jimmy, tied up and trying to figure a way out of his predicament in Two Guns for Two Twins (1966)
Mili (Emilia Bayona) as Sally and Pili (Pilar Bayona) as Jenny about to introduce themselves to a new town in Two Guns for Two Twins (1966)
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