A Paella/Spaghetti Western musical with action, fun, romance, shootouts and dancing.

Sally and Jennie are twin sisters (the real Twin Sisters (Pilar y Emilia Bayona) who travel the American West with their grandfather Nathan (José Orjas), who earns a living as a tooth puller and also sells a cure-all elixir. They travel by wagon and attract audiences with their dancing and marksmanship displays. Unexpectedly, before being shot to death in a saloon while playing cards, the old man wins ownership of a ranch in a poker game. Now, the two girls are the new owners, but the land is coveted by several people in town. Meanwhile, both of them fall in love with two suitors: Robert Clark (Rogelio Madrid), who is arrested and imprisoned by a corrupt sheriff (Luis Induni), and Jimmy Trebor (Sean Flynn), who is kidnapped and tortured by bandits who want to take over the ranch.

The fourth of nine films starring the twins Pili and Mili (Pilar Bayona and Aurora Bayona), it relies on the mix-ups caused by their physical resemblance (a common trope in twin movies) and their talent for singing and dancing. The film was a huge box office success, leading to a subsequent and successful film career. Starring the charming teenage duo Pili and Mili, they were a female comedic and musical duo composed of twin sisters Pilar Bayona Sarriá and Aurora Bayona Sarriá, born on February 10, 1947, in Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain. They rose to fame in the early 1960s, becoming one of the biggest stars of the "singing child prodigy" film genre, which was booming at the time. Their films were musical comedies based on the same formula of mistaken identity (twin swapping). The twins were very popular in Spain, Mexico, Argentina, and Italy, but their career was brief, lasting only from 1963 to 1970. When the formula for artistic success stopped working, the duo disbanded. Mili retired at 22 and married a Mexican show business entrepreneur, while Pili continued her solo acting career, now under her own name, Pilar Bayona. Co-Stars the always handsome and laughing Sean Flynn. At the beginning of his short career he accepted a contract to appear in a sequel to his father's hit film ¨Captain Blood¨ (1935), ¨The son of Captain Blood¨ (1962). He made a few more films in Europe, as ¨Seven Guns for Timothy¨, ¨Sandok¨, ¨Two Twin Guns¨, ¨Delay in Marienborn¨, ¨Five Ashore in Singapore¨, in all of which he was extraordinarily likeable but not particularly skilled or at ease before the camera. He became tired with acting and then went to Africa in 1965 as a War Correspondent. The Vietnam war was heating up, and in 1966 Flynn went to cover the war as a photographer-correspondent for Paris-Match and after that to cover the Arab-Israeli war of 1967. In April, 1970, while covering the widening of combat to the border areas of Cambodia, Flynn and colleague Dana Stone disappeared. They were presumed captured by elements of the North Vietnamese, the Viet Cong, or the Khmer Rouge. Although some reports indicated they may have survived as prisoners for as much as another two months, Flynn and Stone were never definitively heard from again after April 6, 1970, and were almost certainly executed by captors.

The film is notable solely for its spectacular dance numbers, musical score by Gregorio Garcia Segura, sensational choreography, captivating songs and colorful cinematography by Franco Vitrotti, shot on localion in Almeria y Colmenar Viejo, Madrid.

Alongside the attractive twins who sing and dance very well, but act rather poorly, it's worth highlighting the large supporting cast, including: Jorge Rigaud, Beni Deus, Renato Baldini, Renato Baldini, Luis Induni, José Spepulveda, José Orjas, Ricardo Rodríguez, Mario Morales and Guillermo Méndez.

The film, professionally but unevenly directed by Rafael Romero Marchent, displays his usual narrative style, which he had already shown in other westerns. Rafael was an expert writer and director of spaghetti westerns, as demonstrated in *Dos cruces en Danger Pass*, *Grito de venganza*, and *Dos pistolas para dos gemelas*. While his brother Joaquín Marchent is considered the best director of the "paella western" genre, his first film was *El Coyote* and its sequel, *La venganza del Coyote*, filmed in Mexico. After that, he filmed *La sombra del Zorro* and *La venganza del Zorro*, going on to direct westerns such as *Cabalgando hacia la muerte*, *Aventuras en el Oeste*, *Tres hombres buenos*, *El Sabor de la Venganza*, and the more popular and violent *Condenados a Vivir*. He also wrote the following westerns for his brother Rafael Romero Marchent: *Manos Torpes*, *Ocaso Un Pistolero*, and *Garringo*. Rating: 5.5/10.

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Jenny and Sally, twin sisters, travel in the West accompanying their grandfather, who makes a living selling a miraculous elixir made of tea with sugar.

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