Spaghetti Western Locations

The scene where the Rojo gang is riding back to the hacienda from the small house after Clint massacres some of the gang holding Marisol captive is located at the parking structure for Mini-Hollywood.



For a more detailed view of this site and other Spaghetti Western locations please visit my friend Yoshi “Garringo” Yasuda’s excellent website: http://garringo.cool.ne.jp/

New DVD Release!

"Dead Men Don't Make Shadows", "Django Meets Sartana"
Label: Wild East
Volume 28
Available on DVD for the first time in the U.S.A.
Aspect ratio:
Language: English
Extras: Trailers, Jack Betts (Hunt Powers) interview
Special limited edition available now!

Remembering Charles Hawtrey

He was born George Frederick Joffe Hartree on November 30, 1914 in Hounslow, Middlesex, England. He first appeared on stage in 1925 in children's plays. The thin twittery actor became famous for his participation in the 'Carry On' series of films. His camp behavior and pursuit of the opposite sex. In films since the early 1930s he appeared in several Will Hay comedies including “Good Morning, Boys! (1937) and made close to 30 films before finding his 'Carry On' niche. He left the series over a squabble over billing. Hawtrey died on October 27, 1988 in Deal, Kent, England. Charles appeared in one Eurowestern “Carry on Cowboy” as Chief Big Heap (1965). Today we remember Charles Hawtrey on what would have been his 95th birthday.

A BULLET FOR SANDOVAL

Quei disperati che puzzano di sudore e di morte – Italian title
Los desesperdados – Spanish title
A vingança é minha – Brazilian title
Desperado il man omatuntoa – Finnish title
Kosto veressä – Finnish title
Les quatre deperdados – French title
Um sie war der Hauch des Todes – German title
Oi desperados – Greek title
Oi Ektelestai tis Avgis – Greek title
Homens em Fúria - Portuguese title
Revansch – Swedish title
6 desperados – Swedish title
Those Desperate Men Who Smell of Dirt and Death – English title
Blood for Blood – English title
A Bloody Job – English title
Vengeance is Mine – U.K. title
The Desperate Men – U.K. title
A Bullet for Sandoval – USA title

A 1969 Italian, Spanish co-production [Leone Film, Daiano Film (Rome), Atlántida Film
(Madrid)]
Producers: Elio Scardamaglia, Ugo Guerra
Director: Julio Buchs (Julio Garcia)
Story: Julio Buchs Garcia, Federico De Urrutia, José Luis Martínez Mollá
Screenplay: Julio Buchs Garcia, Federico De Urrutia, Ugo Guerra, José Luis Martínez
Mollá
Cinematography: Francisco Sempere [Eastmancolor, Cromoscope]
Music: Gianni Ferrio (Giovanni Ferrio)
Running time: 108 minutes

Cast:
Corporal John Warner - George Hilton (Jorge Lara)
Don Pedro Sandoval - Ernest Borgnine (Ermes Borgnino)
Lucky Boy - Alberto de Mendoza
Friar/ Father Converso - Leo Anchóriz (Leopardo Fustel)
Sam PauL - Antonio Pica (Antonio Serrano)
Francisco Gonzales Sandoval - Manuel Miranda
Guadalupano - Gustavo Rojo (Gustavo Pinto)
Morton - Andrea Aureli
José Gonzales Sandoval - Manuel de Blas (Manuel Munoz)
Rosa/Carol Day - Annabella Incontrera
Guerico/Will/”The Only One Eye”/Johnny One Eye - José Manuel Martin (José Perez)
General Jackson - George Rigaud (Pedro Delissetche)
Texibal - Mary Paz Pondal
Captain Parker - Vidal Molina (Mariano Molina)
Confederate General - Andrés Mejuto (Severino Mejuto)
Captain Parker - Antonio Molina
Confederate Corporal - Lorenzo Robledo
stage station patron - Alfonso Rojas (Alfonso Gonzalez)
stage station patron’s wife - Tota Alba (Dolores Alba)
Sandoval henchman - Alfonso de la Vega
Mexican rancher - Tito Garcia (Pablo Gonzalez)
Mexican foreman - Luis Barboo
Mestizo - Dan van Husen (Daniel van Husen)
Pablo Gonzales Sandoval - Jesús Aristu
Mexican Governor - José Guardiola
Mexican Colonel - Fernando Sanchez Polack
Senator - Alfredo San Tacruz (Alfredo Santa Cruz)
soldiers - Claudio Trionfi, Adalberto Rossetti
with; Charly Bravo (Ramon Bravo), José Riesgo (José Cortina), Rafael Hernandez (Esteban Herrero)



During the final months of the American Civil War, a Confederate soldier, John Warner, deserts his post when he recieves word his girlfriend Rosa, is about to deliver their son. When he and two fellow deserters arrive at their home village they find it is suffering from a Cholera epidemic. Warner makes it to Don Pedro Sandoval's hacienda but is thrown out with his newborn son after finding out Rosa has died of Cholera. Travelling on he picks up a band of followers but they are turned away everywhere they go because of the Cholera until his son dies of starvation. Warner now raises a gang of outlaws and seeks revenge on Sandoval and all who refused his son food. Sandoval and Warner finally meet at a bullring where they have a knife duel but Sandoval is gored to death by a bull. Warner and the gang are trapped in the middle of the bullring by a garrison of Mexican soldiers and executed in a scene reminiscent of the end of “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”. Too bad Hilton didn't pursuse more dramatic westerns instead of turning to comic ones as he's an excellent anti-hero.


You Tube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUYnYkhAu6A

RIP Gilles Carle

Celebrated Canadian filmmaker Gilles Carle dies at 80 in Quebec

Gilles Carle, one of Quebec's most celebrated filmmakers, has died. He was 80. His common-law wife says Carle died early Saturday November 28th in a hospital in Granby, Quebec. Carle had been battling Parkinson's disease for the past few years and was recently hospitalized following a heart attack and complications from pneumonia.

The filmmaker was born in Maniwaki, Quebec on July 31, 1929 and grew up in Abitibi before moving to Montreal in 1940. He made some 30 films in over his decades long career and won dozens of awards including the Palme d'Or for the short film 50 ans (50 Years), in 1990. He was awarded the Order of Canada in 1999.

Gilles Carle scripted and directed two Euro-westerns for TV "Blood of the Hunter" starring Michael Biehn and "The Other Side of the Law" starring Jurgen Prochnow both in 1994

Cut Throats Nine re-make

Harvey Keitel joins international cast
of Rue Morgue Cinema's flagship feature

Toronto, CANADA - Rue Morgue Cinema in association with Someone At The Door Productions, is proud to announce its flagship feature film CUT THROATS NINE, a high action remake of the Spanish/Italian western Condenados a vivir, has attached veteran Hollywood actor HARVEY KEITEL (Pulp Fiction, Bad Lieutenant). Keitel joins a growing international cast comprised of Danish superstar MADS MIKKELSEN (Casino Royale, Valhalla Rising) and Canadian luminary ROY DUPUIS (The Rocket, La Femme Nikita).

CUT THROATS NINE will be helmed by award-winning director Rodrigo Gudiño (The Facts In the Case of Mister Hollow) from a script by Gudiño and Joseph O'Brien (RoboCop: Prime Directives) based on a story by Joaquin Romero Marchent and Santiago Moncada. Marco Pecota will produce the film for Rue Morgue Cinema/Someone At The Door Productions. Award winning cinematographer Derek Rogers C.S.C. (Cube, Resident Evil: Apocalypse) is slated to lens the picture, with Kyle Glencross (300, Dawn of the Dead) handling the film's special effects.

CUT THROATS NINE follows a wagonload of convicts as they travel the northern mountains to carry out their death sentences. Following a surprise attack from a gang of bandits, only the sergeant, his beautiful young daughter and seven of the most sadistic, murderous men alive survive the assault. CUT THROATS NINE in an original crowd pleasing experience that pushes the relatively subdued excesses of both the western and the horror movie into creative new territory.

CUT THROATS NINE is set to go into production in Toronto in early 2010.

Remembering Luciano Rossi

Luciano Rossi was born on November 28, 1934 in Rome, Italy. He appeared in over 70 films during his career as a character actor. Known for his bizarre portrayals from hunchbacks to lunatics his face was easily recognizable and remembered by Italian film goers. He was sometimes billed under the pseudonyms Lou Kamante, and Edward G. Ross, and appeared in over 25 Euro-westerns almost always as a villain or gang member. One of his best and sympathetic roles was as Ignacio in “The Forgotten Pistolero” (1969) but usually he played sadistic or crazed outlaws and was one of the unsung heroes of Italian film villains always delivering intense and powerful performances. Today we celebrate what would have been Luciano Rossi's 75th birthday.

For an excellent read on Luciano Rossi pick-up a copy of "A Violent Professional" by Kier-La Janisse, part of the Cinema Classics Collection available from FAB Press. This biography of Rossi is an enjoyable read, and in English, with a complete filmography with reviews of his appearances.