''Go West! A Lucky Luke Adventure'' () is a 2007 French

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directed by

Olivier Jean-Marie Olivier Christophe Hervé Jean-Marie (19 November 1960 – 13 May 2021) was a French animator and director. He was notable for his work on '' Oggy and the Cockroaches'', ''Space Goofs ''Space Goofs'' () is a French animated series that was pr ...

and written by Jean-Marie and Jean-François Henry. Based on the 2001–03 animated television series ''

The New Adventures of Lucky Luke ''Les Nouvelles Aventures de Lucky Luke'' (English: ''The New Adventures of Lucky Luke'') is a 2001–2003 animated television series based on the Franco-Belgian comic book series of the same name created by Belgian cartoonist Morris. 52 episo ...

'' (which in turn is based on the Franco-Belgian comic series of the same name by

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) and loosely based on La Caravane by Morris and

René Goscinny René Goscinny (; ; 14 August 1926 – 5 November 1977) was a French comic editor and writer, who created the ''Asterix, Astérix'' comic book series with illustrator Albert Uderzo. Born in France to a Jewish family from Poland, he spent his chil ...

, the film was produced by

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, Dargaud Média and Lucky Comics, and was released theatrically in France by

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on 5 December 2007.

Plot

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1880, the Dalton brothers (Joe, Jack, William and Averell) escape from a court trial regarding the Daltons' bank salesman cousin disgracing their name and plunder several banks across New York, while

Lucky Luke ''Lucky Luke'' is a Western (genre), Western bande dessinée, comic album series created by Belgian cartoonist Morris (cartoonist), Morris in 1946. Morris wrote and drew the series single-handedly until 1955, after which he started collaborati ...

hunts for them. Upon placing their loot of stolen cash in an empty wagon at

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, which was in construction at the moment, and attempting to blend in with the crowd in order to avoid detection from the police, Averell unwittingly blows their cover in front of the police, resulting in a wild police chase across New York. After the chase, the Daltons head back to Central Park in order to retrieve their loot, only to find more wagons with immigrants going to

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. Lucky Luke arrives to captured the Daltons when Piotr, the leader of the immigrants from the wagon train, welcomes Lucky Luke and later on exposes their problem to them: They have 80 days to go to California and to take possession of their land, if not the developer, a man named Crook, having put 12 caravans in danger so that they do not arrive in California with his partner Bartleby, keeps the money paid in advance without the sale being made. With that in mind, along with Joe convincing him to help them just to stay and find the loot, Lucky Luke wants to take the safe route to California, but since the immigrants got 80 days to get there and the safe route would take about 6 months, he instead decides to take them through the unsafe route, which takes them through a small town called Hole Gutch, crossing the Deadly Desert of Death, and passing through the Indian tribe of the Crazy Wolves. Among the other immigrants headed for California include a Chinese chef couple, a teacher with unruly children named Miss Littletown, a trash-talking driver for a pack of mules that transport the Daltons and a barber among others. Along the way, Crook and Bartleby sow traps in order to prevent the caravans from going to California, but to no avail. Crook then later on tries to help the Daltons escape, but Joe refuses until he finds the loot in the wagons. Later, Lucky Luke and the caravans stop at Hole Gutch, where they pick up some new immigrants who also want to go to California including

Rantanplan Rantanplan (; alternatively spelled Ran-Tan-Plan and Ran Tan Plan) is a fictional hound dog created by a Belgian cartoonist Morris and French writer René Goscinny. Originally a supporting character in the ''Lucky Luke'' series, Rantanplan l ...

. During this, after failing another attempt on freeing the Daltons, Crook drains the water for the settlers who were thirsty in the Deadly Desert of Death. Joe tries to make the settlers have a union against Lucky Luke but Averell does a crazy rain dance by accident, all because of a cockroach was in his shoe, even told three roaches how bad it was in Averell's shoe. When they get close to California within 24 hours, Crook makes one final trick to blow up the old bridge between the canyon using a cannon from the circus, same one that he brought the gators from when he tried to stop Lucky Luke near the Missouri river which failed to see the gators turned into accessories. With the next bridge being far away for 6 days to travel, Miss Littletown suggested to turn the wagons into hot air balloons and fly over the canyon. With some of the wagons now in the air, almost for the furnal wagon, the water wagon, and the Chinese chef's wagon being made of ladies' underwear, Lucky Luke and the immigrants make it to California and take possession of their land, only to discover that they get the bad side of California, showing it to be an old gold mine. Realizing Crook tricked them and that he has made a dozen of settlers fail to get to California, the settlers plan to hang him high but before they do, Joe promised them some money they hid in their wagons earlier. However, Averell already found them after they picked up the other immigrants in Hole Gulch and hid the loot in their

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s. This changes Joe's mind but not the settlers. The Daltons flee with their stock into the abandoned gold mine, resulting in a chase in the form of a

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ride between the settlers, Lucky Luke, Rantanplan and Crook. Finally, after all of them leave the mine, while Lucky Luke saved Miss Littletown and her students, the Daltons are defeated by Luke but Crook arrived with a stick of dynamite, demanding to give them the loot of the Daltons in the balls. Suddenly, as Crook makes his escape, a mega explosion was caused by the dynamite now fetched by Rantanplan, destroying the loot the Daltons stole and allows the settlers to discover gold under the sold lands. The film ends with the Daltons, Crook and Bartleby being tied up and sent to justice by Lucky Luke into the sunset.

Voice cast

French

Lambert Wilson Lambert Nicolas Wilson (; né Willson, 3 August 1958) is a French actor and theatre director. He is a seven-time Cesar Award nominee, four for César Award for Best Actor, Best Actor and three for César Award for Best Supporting Actor, Best Sup ...

Clovis Cornillac Clovis Cornillac (born 16 August 1968) is a French actor, film director, and screenwriter. Life and career Clovis Cornillac was born to actors Myriam Boyer and Roger Cornillac. He started studying theatre at the age of 14. He made his debut ...

as Joe Dalton * François Morel as

* Alexis Tomassian as William Dalton * Christophe Lemoine as Jack Dalton * Bernard Alane as Averell Dalton *

Edgar Givry Edgar Givry (born 9 August 1953) is a French actor. He appeared in more than seventy films since 1974. Givry came to prominence after appearing in television series such as Julie Lescaut and Navarro. He became most known as a voice actor, ser ...

as Edgar Crook *

Michael Lonsdale Michael Edward Lonsdale Crouch (24 May 1931 – 21 September 2020), commonly known as Michael Lonsdale and sometimes as Michel Lonsdale, was a French-British actor and author who appeared in over 180 films and television shows. He is often ...

as Harold Bartleby * as Piotr/Monsieur Tang *

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as Molly * Jean Piat as Spike Goodfellow/Le Croque-Mort * Titoff as Monsieur Pierre * Dorothée Pousséo as Miss Littletown/L'Institutrice * François Seiner as Ugly Barrow * as Louise/La Jument * as Jolly Jumper * Jacques Frantz as Loup Cinglé * Pierre Baton as Old Timer * Yves-Robert Viala as Le Policier à New-York * Jacques Obadia as Le Directeur du cirque * Marc Alfos as Le Costaud du Saloon * as L'Avocat de L'accusation * Julien Chatelet as Morris/Goscinny/Un Pionnier * as Barman/Shérif * Jean-Marc Pannetier as Le Cissier de la Banque * Luc Boulad as Vrai Faucon * Sylvain Corthay as Le Juge

Québec

Stéphane Rousseau Stéphane Rousseau (; born September 17, 1966) is a Canadian actor and comedian. He starred in the Academy Award-winning film ''The Barbarian Invasions''. He has also been in ''Asterix at the Olympic Games'' (2008). His latest movies is ...

as Lucky Luke * André Ducharme as Joe Dalton/Jolly Jumper *

Éveline Gélinas Éveline Gélinas is a Canadian actress who grew up in Saint-Boniface, Quebec, near Shawinigan. She was born in 1974 and graduated from Séminaire Sainte-Marie in 1991. She was nominated for a Genie Award for Best Supporting Actress for her rol ...

as Miss Littletown * as Louise * as Monsieur Pierre * Yves Pelletier as Jack Dalton/Piotr/Rantanplan/Monsieur Tang * Bruno Landry as Averell Dalton/Barrow/Loup Cinglé * Guy A. Lepage as William Dalton/Crook * as Bartleby

English

* Marcel Jeannin as Lucky Luke/Rantanplan *

Mark Camacho Mark Camacho is a Canadian character actor. Career He has starred in live-action films, but is best known for his voice acting roles, such as Oliver Frensky in ''Arthur'', Lyle in '' Animal Crackers'', Dad in '' Rotten Ralph'', George Martin in ...

as Jolly Jumper * TBA as Jack Dalton/Willam Dalton/Joe Dalton

Video game

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based on the film was developed by Tate Interactive and published by Atari Europe in 2007 for the

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and

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References

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