Spaghetti Western Director ~ Peter Launders
Peter Launders was an alias used by Mario Pinzauti is an
Italian film director and screenwriter known for his contributions to
low-budget exploitation cinema during the 1970s.
Born on May 1, 1930, in Rome, Lazio, Italy, Pinzauti
directed a series of micro-budget genre films that encompassed spaghetti
westerns, crime thrillers, and erotic features, often characterized by their
over-the-top style and modest production values. His notable works include
“Wanted Ringo” (1970), “Let's Go and Kill Sartana” (1971), “Passion Plantation”
(1976), “Mandinga” (1976), and “Clouzot & C. contro Borsalino & C.”
(1977), with some credits appearing under the pseudonym Peter Launders. These
productions have remained largely obscure, appreciated mainly within niche
circles devoted to European exploitation films.
Pinzauti died sometime in 2010 in Italy at the age of 80.
Mario Pinzauti as Peter Launders directed two Spaghetti
westerns: “Giunse Ringo e… fu tempo di massacre” (Ringo, It's Massacre Time) in
1966 and “Vamos a matar Sartana!” with George Martin in 1971.
LAUNDERS, Peter (aka Harry Small) (Mario
Pinzauti) [5/1/1930, Rome, Lazio, Italy – 2010, Italy] – director,
writer.
Ringo, It's Massacre
Time - 1966
Let's Go and Kill
Sartana – 1971 (co)
L’uomo dalla Colt
Bianca – 1971 [film was never made]
Spaghetti Western
Screenwriter ~ Mario di Nardo
Mario di Nardo was
born in Rome, Italy in 1929. He is/was a producer, five films between 1973 and
1988, director of the 1967 film “Non sta bene rubare il Tesoro” but mostly a
screenwriter who was involved in twenty-seven films between 1958 and 1997. He
also appeared as an actor in one film 1997’s “Cwal” in the role of diplomat
Wloski.
He began writing
film screenplays in the 1950s and became a prolific writer in Italian genre
films, collaborating with directors like Mauro Bolognini and Tonino Valerii. His
first screenplay in 1953 with the film “The Drama of a Life” by Flavio
Calzavara.
Mario di Nardo wrote
and co-wrote screenplays for five Spaghetti westerns: “Tre dollari di Piombo”
($3.00 of Lead) with Silvio Siano and Nino Lillo in 1964, “Quindici forche per
un assassin” (15 Scaffolds for a Killer) with Luis Bayonas in 1968, “Il
pistolero dell’Ave Maria” (The Forgotten Pistolero) with Piero Anchisi,
Ferdinando Baldi, Vincenco Cerami and Federico De Urrutia and “Ciakmull, l’uomo
della vendetta” (The Unholy Four) with Franco Rossetti and Luca Montefiori in
1969 and “Roy Colt e Winchester Jack” (Roy Colt & Winchester Jack).
di NARDO, Mario [1929, Rome. Lazio,
Italy - ] – producer, production
manager, director, writer, actor.
Three Dollars of
Lead – 1964 (co)
15 Scaffolds for a
Killer – 1968 (co)
The Forgotten
Pistolero – 1969 (co)
The Unholy Four –
1969 (co)
Roy Colt &
Winchester Jack - 1970
Spaghetti Western
Cinematographer ~ Sergio Pesce
Sergio Pesce was an
Italian photographer, cameraman and cinematographer. He was born in Naples,
Italy on June 3, 1916. He was a stepbrother of the famous photographer brothers
Aurelio, Ettore and Franco who became cameramen and Franco who became a famous
actor.
Sergio worked as a
cameraman on seven films between 1941 and 1958 and as a cinematographer on forty-two
films from 1942 to 1975. He died in Rome on December 1, 1995 at the age of 79.
Sergio Pesce was a
cinematographer on two Spaghetti westerns: “Il fanciullo del West” (The Kid of
the West) in 1942 and “La sceriffa” (The Sheriff) with Elio Polacchi in 1959.
PESCE, Sergio [6/3/1916, Naples,
Campania, Italy – 12/1/1995, Rome, Lazio, Italy] – cinematographer, cameraman, son
of actor Ettore Pesce, stepbrother of photographer. Cameraman Aurelio Pesce
[1885-19??], photographer, cameraman Ettore Pesce, photographer, cameraman,
cinematographer, actor Franco Pesce [1890-1975].
The Kid of the West
– 1942
The Sheriff – 1959
(co)
