''Freddy in the Wild West'' (german: Freddy und das Lied der Prärie, lang-it, 6 pallottole per Ringo Kid) is a 1964 West German/Italian musical

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film directed by

Sobey Martin Sobey Martin (27 June 1909 – 27 July 1978) was an American director of television and short films, mainly in the 1950s and 1960s. Martin directed the film ''Four Nights of the Full Moon'' ( es, Las cuatro noches de la luna llena) (1963), starri ...

and starring

Freddy Quinn Freddy Quinn (born Franz Eugen Helmut Manfred Nidl; 27 September 1931) is an Austrian singer and actor whose popularity in the German-speaking world soared in the late 1950s and 1960s. As Hans Albers had done two generations before him, Quin ...

, Rik Battaglia, and Beba Lončar. Playing a small role of Olivia is

Mamie Van Doren Mamie Van Doren (born Joan Lucille Olander; February 6, 1931) is an American actress, singer, and sex symbol. She is perhaps best known for the rock 'n' roll, juvenile delinquency exploitation film ''Untamed Youth'' (1957). Early life Van D ...

, a 1950s Hollywood sex goddess. It was co-produced with and shot on location in SFR Yugoslavia. It was one of a crop of western-set German films made in the 1960s, many of them based on works of

Karl May Karl Friedrich May ( , ; 25 February 1842 – 30 March 1912) was a German author. He is best known for his 19th century novels of fictitious travels and adventures, set in the American Old West with Winnetou and Old Shatterhand as main pro ...

. It is also known by the

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of ''The Sheriff Was a Lady''.

Cast

as Black Bill / John Burns / Freddy * Rik Battaglia as Steve Perkins * Beba Lončar as Deputy Sheriff Anita Daniels * Carlo Croccolo as Sheriff Mickey Stanton *

Trude Herr Trude Herr (; 4 May 1927 – 16 March 1991) was a German film actress, singer and theatre owner.Weisser p. 289 She was an entertainer in Germany from the early 1960s until her retirement. Early life Trude Herr was born in the Cologne district ...

as Joana Stanton * Josef Albrecht as Uncle Ted Daniels *

Otto Waldis Otto Waldis (born Otto Glucksmann-Blum, May 20, 1901 – March 25, 1974) was an Austrian-American character actor in films and television from the 1930s through the 1960s. He was also billed as Otto Blum. Years in Germany Waldis was born Otto ...

as Old Joe * Ulrich Hüls as Buck *

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as Harry * Mariona as Saloon Singer * Bruno W. Pantel as Barman * Stojan 'Stole' Arandjelovic as Perkins Henchman * Vladimir Medar as Murdock, Perkins Henchman * Milivoje Popovic-Mavid as Perkins Henchman * Janez Vrhovec * Desa Beric * Mirko Boman as Perkins Henchman *

as Olivia

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* 1964 films 1960s Western (genre) musical films 1960s historical musical films Constantin Film films Films directed by Sobey Martin German Western (genre) musical films German historical musical films 1960s German-language films Italian Western (genre) musical films Italian historical musical films 1960s Italian-language films West German films Yugoslav Western (genre) musical films Yugoslav historical musical films 1960s multilingual films German multilingual films Italian multilingual films Yugoslav multilingual films 1960s Italian films 1960s German films German-language Italian films Italian-language German films {{1960s-Italy-film-stub