Jean-Pierre Jumez

The co-stars are French humoristic singer Boby Lapointe (the bandit) and George Harrison, an Italian artist (the cowboy). Jean-Pierre Jumez plays the intrepid commander of the Mexican army. The only prerequisite for this film is to know how to ride a horse. Boby Lapointe lied shamelessly. After all, he needs the money. Stricken by cancer, he isn't receiving any of the royalties that would later arrive with his posthumous fame. Jean-Pierre preferred to sidestep the issue. Where equestrian sports are concerned, he had more experience falling off horses than actually riding them. The film's opening scene is fairly simple: The carriage will start off from a sunken trail. Boby is supposed to give chase while Jean-Pierre, at the head of his valiant army, comes to the victims' rescue. On signal the carriage takes off. Then it's Boby's turn, as he wobbles off in hot pursuit. Now it's Jean-Pierre's turn. He kicks his proud white mount with the spur of his boot. His army follows. There's a lot of commotion and electricity in the air. The troops fire freely at the bandits who, fulfilling their duty, fire at the carriage. Uh-oh! Jean-Pierre's horse seems to be improvising. He tugs at the reins like it says in the book. But he must have stepped on the wrong pedal, because the beast keeps picking up speed while he bounces up and down in imminent peril on his ejectable seat. Finally, he catches up to the bandits. At this point the troops are far behind. The officer continues to tug at the reins and by now he is actually working up quite a sweat. Yet the stubborn mule of a horse continues to gather speed. Now he has actually passed the carriage. The camera immortalizes his behind, which, with each of the horse's strides, squishes onto the saddle, sometimes to the left, sometimes to the right, threatening his already fragile equilibrium. * CUT! It's beginning to smell a lot like a layoff around here. Take two. A lieutenant, who also happens to be the owner of the horses, comes to see Jean-Pierre, since he's understandably worried about his animals. For some reason unbeknownst to the producers, the six horses pulling the carriage turn around, and knock down the entire crew-who are nervous to begin with-one by one, like dominoes. At least that wasn't Jean-Pierre's fault. Finally, after gathering all forces, the crew decides to try again. * ACTION! This time everything goes according to plan. Suddenly, however, the entire army dismounts. Jean-Pierre looks around, stunned. Dammit! After the nerve-racking mishaps of the previous take, He completely forgot about the script. He was supposed to dive into the bushes...