Sunday, August 23, 2026
Little Known Spaghetti Western Actors ~ Emy Dunsing
[These daily posts will cover little known actors or people that have appeared in more recent films and TV series. Various degrees of information that I was able to find will be given and anything that you can add would be appreciated.]
Emy Dunsing was a dancer, theater and film actress active in Germany during the early 1900s. I can find no biographical information on her.
Emy Dunsing appeared in one Euro-western, “Sergeant Berry” in 1938.
DUNSING, Emy [German] – dancer, theater, film actress.
Sergeant Berry – 1938 (Mexican dancer)
Spaghetti Western Directors, Screenwriters, Cinematographers
Spaghetti Western
Director ~ Hans Karl
From 1910 Breslauer was active in Berlin as a screenwriter. He produced about 40 filmscripts for the film companies Duskes, Messter, Vitascope, Mutoscope and Biograph.
It is believed in 1914 he had his first directing job with Sascha-Film in Vienna. In 1916 he had an acting role in the Viennese Regent-Film production “Zu spät gesühnt”.
Breslauer's first demonstrable directorial involvement was in 1918 in the Sascha-Film production “Ihre beste Rolle”. After World War I he worked as a director for Leyka-Film and Biehl-Film. In 1919/1920 he was vice president of the Film Directors' Club of Austria. From 1921 Breslauer regularly directed for Mondial-Film, under whose roof he set up his own production company, H.K.B.-Film. Its first films were “Lieb' mich und die Welt ist mein” (1924) and “Strandgut” (also 1924), which he shot in 1923 on Corsica and the French Riviera. On some productions, for example “Oh, du lieber Augustin” (1922), he also claimed responsibility for the screenplay.
From the 1930s Breslauer was very active as a writer. He was a member of the Reich Chamber of Literature and published under the pseudonym "Bastian Schneider". Between 1934 and 1939 he regularly wrote amusing contributions for the Grenzboten in Bratislava (then Pressburg), from 1936 to 1942 for Das kleine Blatt in Vienna and additionally from 1938 to 1944 for the Kleine Volks-Zeitung, also in Vienna. From 1940, the same year in which he joined the Nazi Party, he contributed light pieces to newspapers across the entire Third Reich, for example the Breslauer Neueste Nachrichten, the Essener Allgemeine Zeitung and the Leipziger Tageszeitung.
After World War II success eluded him, and he died impoverished in Salzburg Hospital on April 15, 1965 at the age of 76.
KARL, Hans (aka H.K. Breslauer, Hans Karl Breslaur, Bastian Schneider) (Johann Karl Breslauer) [6/2/1888, Vienna, Austria – 4/15/1965, Salzburg, Austria] – producer, director, writer, novelist, actor, married to actress Anny Miletty (Anna Miletty) [1898-1948] (1925-1948), founded H.K.B.-Film [1921].
Miß Cowboy – 1920
Spaghetti Western Screenwriter ~ Mariano de Lope
Mariano de Lope was an Italian producer (six films), production manager, director (six films), assistant director and writer. Mariano’s main film career was as a screenwriter where he wrote or co-wrote twenty-three films between 1969 to 1984.
I can find no biographical information on him.
Mariano de Lope co-wrote the screenplay for one Spaghetti western, “Uno dopo l’altro” (One After the Other) with Nick Howard, Simon O’Neil, Carlos E. Rodríguez.
de LOPE, Mariano (aka M. de Lope, Mariano De Lope, Mariano Lope) – producer, production manager, assistant director, writer,
One After the Other – 1968 (co)
Spaghetti Western
Cinematographer ~ Edoardo Mulargia
Born on December 10, 1925, in Torpè, Sardinia, Italy, Mulargia began his career in the film industry during the late 1950s or early 1960s, initially working as an assistant director and second unit director on various Italian productions. He transitioned to directing and screenwriting around the mid-1960s, eventually helming at least seventeen films and contributing to over twenty screenplays through the early 1980s. Among his notable directorial efforts are “Shango” (1970), “Tropic of Cancer” (1972), “La figliastra” (Storia di corna e di passione) (1976), “Escape from Hell” (1980), and “Hotel Paradise” (1980), which reflect his versatility across westerns, adventure, and sexploitation subgenres.
Mulargia's output exemplifies the journeyman approach of many directors active in Italy's popular cinema during that era, prioritizing commercial viability in the B- and C-movie sectors over auteurist distinction. He largely withdrew from filmmaking after the early 1980s and died on September 7, 2005, in Rome, Italy at the age of 79.
Edoardo Mulargia was a cinematographer on one Spaghetti western, “La taglia è tua... l'uomo l'ammazzo io” (El Puro) with Antonio L. Ballesteros.
MULARGIA, Edoardo (aka Edward G. Muller) [12/10/1925, Torpè, Sardinia, Italy – 9/7/2005, Rome, Lazio, Italy] – producer, production manager, director, assistant director, writer, cinematographer.
El Puro – 1969 (co)
New Blu-ray + 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray release of “Il buono il Brutto il cattivo”
“Il buono il Brutto il cattivo”
(The Good, the Bad & the Ugly)
(1966)
Director: Sergio Leone
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Eli Wallach
County: Italy
Label: Eagle Pictures
PAL
Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
Languages: DTS-HD Italian, DTS-HD 2.0 English, DTS-HD 5.1 English
Subtitles: Italian
Running time: 182 minutes
Extras: Poster
ASIN: B0H1R387WM
Available: September 23, 2026
That Dirty Black Bag deserved a second season, but today in Italy it is even difficult to recover this forgotten western
Wonder Channel
August 11, 2026
And it's a shame, because we are talking about a modern spaghetti western that takes Sergio Leone, adds a good dose of contemporary violence, some almost Tarantinian madness and a cast that includes Dominic Cooper, Douglas Booth, Travis Fimmel, Aidan Gillen and Guido Caprino.
Not exactly a series built with what was left over in stock.
A western in which heads weigh less than bodies
The character who immediately makes the tone of the series clear is Red Bill, played by Douglas Booth.
He is a bounty hunter with a rather practical habit: after killing the wanted, he decapitates them and stuffs the heads into a black bag.
The explanation is simple.
A head weighs less than a corpse.
It is difficult to dispute the logistics.
On the other side we find Arthur McCoy, played by Dominic Cooper, sheriff of Greenvale with a past that is anything but clear. The meeting between the two kicks off a story that develops over eight days, one for each episode, while around them emerge revenge, greed, religion, violence and characters who seem to come out of a western of the sixties after spending a decidedly heavy evening.
The series doesn’t even try to be elegant.
Already at the beginning he makes it clear that he wants to get his hands dirty.
Between beheadings, torture and morally questionable characters, the West of That Dirty Black Bag has practically no traditional heroes.
Sergio Leone is everywhere, but he is not a simple imitation
The kinship with the Italian spaghetti western is evident.
Arid landscapes, close-ups, men staring at each other before shooting each other, characters without a particularly reassuring moral. The series was shot in Italy, Spain and Morocco, also using those European territories that for decades pretended to be the American Wild West.
The beauty is that he doesn't simply try to replicate Leone.
He takes that language and makes it more aggressive.
The violence is explicit, the rhythms are those of a modern series and some characters have a complexity that would hardly have entered a classic two-hour western.
Even the irony remains.
Not that of jokes placed every three minutes to lighten the situation, but a black humor that often arises precisely from the absurdity of violence.
In short, a man walks around with severed heads in a bag.
A minimum sense of humor becomes almost necessary.
And the cast also included Travis Fimmel and Aidan Gillen
One of the reasons why it is surprising that the series has gone so unnoticed is the cast.
Dominic Cooper arrives at Preacher. Douglas Booth builds a Red Bill that seems designed specifically to become a cult character. Then Travis Fimmel, the unforgettable Ragnar of Vikings, and Aidan Gillen, who for many will remain Littlefinger of Game of Thrones.
They are joined by Niv Sultan, Christian Cooke, Rose Williams, Paterson Joseph, Anna Chancellor and Guido Caprino.
Despite this amount of recognizable faces, however, the series failed to build an audience large enough to guarantee itself a future.
And this makes the finale of the first season even more frustrating.
The real waste is that the story should have continued
That Dirty Black Bag was not conceived as a closed miniseries.
The project was designed over three seasons. In 2022 Douglas Booth even explained that a second season was already being written and that he was contractually bound to the project.
Then nothing more.
No second season.
No follow-up.
No real conclusion of the original project.
Four years later, there are no production announcements for new episodes.
Technically it is even difficult to talk about a traditional cancellation, because there has never been that big statement saying “the series is over”. It simply stood still.
Which is perhaps even worse.
In Italy it arrived on Paramount+, but today it has disappeared
The Italian situation makes the story even more curious.
The series debuted in Italy on January 25, 2023 on Paramount+ and was presented just as a return of the spaghetti western, with a strong Italian production component.
Today, August 11, 2026, however, searching for it legally in Italy leads to a dead end.
JustWatch does not report any Italian platform that currently offers it in streaming, purchase or rental. The Italian card still exists, but the title is only available in other countries.
Amazon keeps a page of the series with the eight episodes, but shows prices in dollars and references to AMC+, so it does not constitute a real availability for the Italian catalog.
For a series also produced in Italy and regularly distributed in our country just three years ago, it is a rather absurd fate.
Maybe it came at the wrong time
The paradox is that today the television western enjoys much greater attention.
Yellowstone has shown how much audience the genre can still have, while its various spin-offs have brought cowboys, ranches and frontiers back into the big television productions.
That Dirty Black Bag, on the other hand, arrived without a comparable promotional machine and on a platform, AMC+, with a much less widespread international circulation.
Maybe if it came out today it would have a different story.
Or it would end up equally ignored because a bounty hunter carrying human heads in a sack is not exactly the ideal character for a quiet family evening.
But at least it deserves a chance.
The first season has enough personality to stand out from the many westerns built simply on imitation Yellowstone. She is dirty, mean, weird and deeply in love with the Italian cinema that inspired her.
The real shame is not only that it never had the second season.
It is that today, at least in Italy, we cannot even say to the public: "Recover it and judge for yourself".
Spaghetti Western Locations for “Companeros”
We continue our hunt for filming locations for “Companeros” The group of revolutionaries line the passengers up outside the train and demand money for their cause. They recognize Yodlof and several of the young men want to kill Vasco as they know he works for Mongo. Lola says know he deserves a trial. In the confusion Yodlaf manages to reach the train’s engine and drives it away. Vasco runs down the tracks following the train. He manages to jump on top of one of the cars. The Swede uncouples the cars from the engine and leaves Vasco behind.
For a more detailed view of this site and other Spaghetti Western locations please visit my friend Yoshi Yasuda’s location site: http://y-yasuda.net/film-location.htm and Captain Douglas Film Locations http://www.western-locations-spain.com/
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