THE LAST TRAITOR

Il 13 e’sempre Giuda – Italian title

Il tredicesimo è sempre Giuda – Italian title

Le treizième est un traitre – French title

Le treizieve… un traitre – French title

Den Siste Sjansen – Norwegian title

The 13^th is a Judas – English title

The Last Traitor – English title

A 1971 Italian production [Castor Film (Rome)]

Producer: ?

Director: Joseph Warren (Giuseppe Vari)

Story: Ariano Bolzoni

Screenplay: Adriano Bolzoni

Dialogue: Ted Rusoff [English]

Cinematography: Angelo Lotti [Technicolot, Techniscope]

Music: Carlo Savina

Running time: 89 minutes

Cast:

Captain Ned Carter – Donal O’Brien

Tim/Bill – Maurice Poli

Joe/Tommy – Dean Stratford (Dino Strano)

Mary Belle Owens – Maily Doria

Judge Stump – Fortunato Arena

Slim – Giuseppe Castellano

Emilia – Adriana Giuffré

General – Attilio Dottesio

Photographer – Franco Pesce

With: Giuseppe Bellucci, Gianni Bernini, Enzo Filippi, Emy Della Betta, Miimmo Maggio (Vincenzo Maggio), Enrico Marciani, Alessandro Perella, Luca Sportelli, Gabriele Villa, John Ely (Gian Elia)

In Sonora, a small village bordering Mexico, a group of people are preparing to celebrate the upcoming wedding of Captain Ned Carter and Mary Belle Owens. The guests become nervous when someone notices the table has been set for 13 an unlucky number. The suspicion is confirmed shortly afterwards by the arrival of a stagecoach carrying the bodies of the bride and three other passengers. Finding the guilty parties of the crime immediately becomes a priority. The mystery is finally cleared up by two of the guests, Tim and Joe, who, investigating on their own, manage to find out that Ned is responsible for the crimes. It seems that during the time of the Civil War, he had taken possession of a large shipment of Confederate gold, which was then hidden in an abandoned mine owned by the father of Mary Bell. After the war he romances Mary Belle in order to find the hidden location of the gold. He is forced to kill the girl's father, after discovering the secret location. Shortly before the wedding, Ned had had to kill his girlfriend, who, suspecting he was responsible for her father's death, had gone to the authorities and two undercover government agents had accompanied her to the wedding. Ned will pay for his sins, succumbing to the vengeance of one of the guests at the wedding, Tim, who was sincerely in love with Mary Bell.

YouTube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O33V23h7I0c

Spaghetti Western Locations

Continuing with locations for “Duck You Sucker”. Sean impatiently waits for Juan to accomplish his task of robbing the bank of Mesa Verde in a nearby alley. This alley is on the right-side of the Plaza de Mayor in Medinaceli as you look at the front of the where the bank façade was located. 

For a more detailed view of this site and other Spaghetti Western locations please visit my friend Yoshi ‘Garringo’ Yasuda’s excellent website: http://y-yasuda.net   

Maurizio Graf then and now

Maurizio Graf was one of the great Italian singers of the 1960s and 1970s. He sang the title songs for several Euro-westerns during the Spaghetti western era. Here are two clips of Maurizio singing "Angel Face" the title song from "A Pistol for Ringo".

This first clip is from an Italian TV show in the 1960s.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1DEFyIQpAs

This second clip is from an appearance with the Spaghetti Western Orchestra in England this month 2012.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lThbXynN_w

THE LAST TOMAHAWK

Der letzte Mohikaner – German title

Holzauge sei wachsam – German title

La valle delle ombre rossa – Italian title

El último mohicano – Spanish title

Heimonsa viimeinen – Finnish title

Le dernier des Mohicans – French title

O teleftaios ton moikanon – Greek title

Ostatni Mohikani – Polish title

De sista mohikanerna – Swedish title

The Last Tomahawk – English title

A 1964 German, Italian, Spanish co-production [International Germania Film (Cologne), Cineproduzioni Associati (Rome), Balcázar Producciones Cinematográficas (Barcelona), Prcusa (Madrid)]

Producers: Franz Thierry, Eduardo de la Fuente, Alfons Carcasona

Director: Harald Reinl

Story: James Fenimore Cooper (James Kent Cooper)

Screenplay: J. Joachim Bartsch (Jochen Bartsch), Roberto Bianchi Montero, José Antonio de la Loma (José Hernandez), Giovanni Simonelli

Cinematography: Ernst W. Kalinke (Ernst Wilhelm Kalinke), Giuseppe La Torre [Eastmancolor, Techniscope]

Music: Francesco De Masi, Peter Thomas

Running time: 95 minutes

Cast:

Falenauge/Deerslayer/Strongheart/Hawkeye – Anthony Steffen (Antonio de Teffè)

Uncas – Daniel Martin (José Martines)

Captain Bill Hayward – Joachim Fuchsberger

Colonel Munroe – Charles Land (Carl Lange)

Cora Munroe – Karin Dor (Katherose Derr)

Alice Munroe – Marie-France (Maria Serrer)

Boss/Roger – Stanley Kent (Stelio Candelli)

Magua – Ricardo Rodríguez

Koch – Klurt Großkurth

Jackson - Carlos Desghamps

Chingachgook – Mike Brendel (Miguel Brendel)

Corporal – Frank Braña (Francisco Pérez)

Gordo – Cris Huerta (Crisanto Brieva)

Matt - Jean-Claude Mathieu

Indian Chief - Mariano Alcón

Roger’s friend - Rafael Hernández (Esteban Herrero)

Jeff - Ángel Ter

With: Ricardo G. Lilló, Aldo Berti, Pierre Mathin, Antonio Montoya, Leandro San José, Víctor Bayo

During the French and Indian War Alice and Cora Munro attempt to join their father, a British officer, stationed at Fort William. They are aided by Chingachgook, his son Uncas and a frontiersman known as Hawkeye. The party is set upon by French soldiers and their cohorts, Huron tribesmen led by the evil Magua.

Guess Who I Am

I was an Italian actress born in in Rome in 1935.

I appeared in over 20 films, two being Euro-westerns.

I was married to an Italian producer until my death in 2007.

Guess who I am.

Chris Casey correctly guessed this week's photo as that of Leonora Ruffo.

New DVD Release

Testa o croce (Heads or Tails)

Year: 1969

Director: Piero Pierotti

Starring: : John Ericson, Sheyla Rosin, Edwige Fenech

Distribution: Medusa Home Entertainment

DVD / Video: PAL 1.85

Audio: Dolby Digital Mono Italian - 2.0, Italian Dolby Digital - 5.1

Subtitles: Italian for the Hearing Impaired

Extras: Italian Trailer, cast and crew credits

Running time: 95 minutes

Released: 8/24/2011

Who Are Those Gals? - Aurora Bautista

Aurora Bautista Zúmel was born in Villanueva de los Infantes, Calladolid, Castilla-LaMancha, Spain on October 15, 1925. She attended primary school in Madrid, shortly before the Civil War. At the outbreak of the war, the family moved to the town Archena, and then went to Barcelona. Here she did her undergraduate studies and after completion joined the Barcelona Theatre Institute to study drama.

Aurora played  in “Eco y Narciso”, which was her first play, and although she had no intention of being more than an amateur, in 1944 she debuted in “La malquerida de Benavente”, with the company of Lola Membrives and a year later, was represented in the Madrid Spanish theater work “The Dream of a Summer Night”, directed by Cayetano Luca de Tena, under whom she was also in “La conjuración de Fiesco” (1948).

In 1948 Aurota had her first movie role at the hands of Juan de Orduna, in the movie “Locura de amor”, starring alongside Fernando Rey and earned her the Award Interpretation. After the success of this film she played “Pequeñeces” (1949) and “Agustina de Aragón” (1950) and, for the theater, “The Barber of Seville”. In 1953 she returned to film in the “Condenaados”, directed by Mur Oti, and then made “La gata” (1955) and “El marido” (1956), along with Alberto Sordi. Under the direction of Juan Antonio Bardem in ”Sonatas” (1959) and “Teresa de Jesús” (1961). Also during this phase of her career plays the role of Antigone in “Requiem por un mujer” and  in “A Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” and “Yerma”.

Bautista then went on tour in America, where she staged the miraculous masterpiece “The Shoemaker's Prodigious Wife”, by Garcia Lorca, filmed “Rodó” in Argentina, and married the doctor Hernán Ramón Cristerna. A few days after the wedding she returned to Spain to shoot with Miguel Picazo what is considered her best performance, “La tía Tula”, which earned her the National Award for Performance in 1965.

Two years later, in Mexico made ​​a new version of “El derecho de nacer” and in 1968, “Cristobal Colón”, back in Spain. It was followed by the films “Pepa Doncel” (1968), the film version of Antonio Gala’s “Benavente”, “Una vela para el diablo” (1973), Eugene Martin, “Los pasajeros” (1975), Jose Antonio Barrero, along with Paul Naschy and Henry Gregor, “El mirón” (1977), by José Ramón Larraz, and a remake of “Cristobal Colón” (1977).

In 1977 Aurora returned to the stage with a work by Arrabal, “Oye, Patria, mi aflicción”, for which she won the X Prize in 1979 Mayte. In 1982 released the first play of Mario Vargas “Llosa, La señorita de Tacna”, which two years later she received the award for Best Actress Award Valladolid City Theatre. Then she did the series “Cómicos” (1985), for television, filmed “Extramuros”, and  “Paso a paso”, by Richard Harris.

Returning to film, she shot in 1987 “Divinas palabras y” directed by  Jose Luis Garcia Sanchez “Divinas palabras”, and the following year, “Amanece que no es poco”. Her other works during this period were the television series “El olivar de Atocha”, and the play “artas de mujeres y Morirás de otra cosa”, with lead actor Manuel Gutierrez Aragon, and “Bodas de Sangue” by Garcia Lorca, which was his debut Buenos Aires. Her last film appearance was in “Tiovivo c. 1950” (2004). The recognition achieved throughout her career has resulted in numerous awards and accolades, in addition to those already mentioned, include the Gold Medal of Fine Arts Circle and the silver medal of the city of Zaragoza.

Aurora appeared in three Euro-westerns in the mid to late 1960s in supporting and cameo roles. With her recognition in Spain her name was always a draw for film goers. Today Aurora is retired 

           

 BAUTISTA, Aurora (aka Aura Batis) (Aurora Bautista Zúmel) [10/15/1925, Villanueva de los Infantes, Valladolid, Castilla-LaMancha, Spain -     ] – stage, TV actress.

Deguello - 1965 (Danger City woman) [as Aura Batis]

$20,000 on Number 7 – 1967 (Peggy)

One by One – 1968 (Dolly’s maid)