Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Remembering Richard Crenna
Richard Donald Crenna was born on November 30, 1926 in Los Angeles, California. He began his career when he was eleven years old, playing the dimmer half of two youngsters called Herman and Sam in the Los Angeles radio show "Boy Scout Jamboree". He stayed with the series on and off for seventeen years, doing hundreds of other radio shows in between and somehow managed to graduate from Belmont High School with letters in track and basketball. He then went on to earn a degree from the University of Southern California. Crenna went on to star in two early television hits, “Our Miss Brooks” (1952) and “The Real McCoys” (1957), but it was his role as the dedicated state legislator in the short-lived “Slattery’s People” (1964), which finally established him both as a dramatic actor and leading man. From that moment on, he was rarely absent from either television or motion pictures. In 1985, Crenna was awarded a TV Emmy for Best Performance by an Actor for “The Rape of Richard Beck” (1985). Crenna appeared in three Euro-westerns “Catlow” and “The Deserter” (both 1971) and “A Man Called Noon” (1973). Richard died on January 17, 2003 in Los Angeles. Today we remember Richard Crenna on what would have been his 85th birthday.
Remembering Eugene Walter
Eugene Walter was born on November 30, 1921 in Mobile, Alabama. An Author and Artist, some of his works include “The Socrates Monkey Seen Dancing in Midair”, “Midst Sun, Moon, Stars, and Field Flowers”, “Felix”, “Jenny the Watercress Girl”, “The Pokeweed Alphabet” and “Moments with Eugene” a book of prints of his artwork. Living in Rome during the 1960s and 1970s, Walter was a translator for Federico Fellini. For different film companies, he translated hundreds of scripts. He appeared as an actor in more than 20 feature films, notably as the American journalist in Fellini's “8½” (1963). For Fellini's “Juliet of the Spirits” (1965), he played the role of the Mother Superior and collaborated with Nino Rota on the song, "Go Milk the Moon" (cut from the final version of the film). Rota and Walter teamed again for the song "What Is a Youth" for Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet (1968). He also played the role of the priest in “The House with Laughing Windows” (1976). He appeared in two Euro-westerns “The Belle Starr Story” as Velvet Fingers and “Viva Django” (both 1968). Eugene died of liver cancer on March 29, 1998 in Mobile, Alabama. Today we remember Eugene Walter on what would have been his 90th birthday.
Remembering Hans Nielsen
Hans Albert Nielsen was born on November 30, 1911 in Hamburg, Germany. The son of a merchant he takes acting lessons with Albrecht Schoenhals and make his stage debut at the Hamburg Kammerspielen. After Kiel, Augsburg and Leipzig, he arrives in Berlin in 1937, after the Second World War he is seen on stage in Munich, Dusseldorf and West Berlin and also makes his film debut . In 1948, he begins making guest appearances in DEFA films. There he starred in the satirical film "Chemistry and Love" (1948), playing the chemist Dr. Michael Alland, who manages to produce from green grass, butter bypassing the cow. In 50 years, Nielsen's girth increased significantly, he then played influential businessmen, lawyers, clergy, loving fathers, but also fat, sneaky types, even murderers. Then at only 53 year of age he dies of leukemia on October 13, 1965. Nielsen appeared in 7 Euro-westerns from “Bullets Don’t Argue” (1964) as Reverend Alavarez to “A Place Called Glory” (1965) as the mayor. He appeared in 1971’s “Prairie in the City” via the use of archive footage. Today we remember Hans Nielsen on what would have been his 100th birthday.
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
KEOMA THE AVENGER
Keoma - Italian title
Mon nom est Keoma - Italian title
Keoma il vendicatore - Italian title
Keoma - Brazilian title
Caramba! - Finnish title
Caramba - paholainen kannoilla - Finnish title
Keoma - Melodie des Sterbens - German title
Keoma Ein Mann wie ein Tornado - German title
Keoma - Das Lied des Todes - German title
Coolman Keoma - German title
Keoma - Greek title
Med Satan i hälarna - Swedish title
Keoma - han kom för att hämnas - Swedish title
Keoma - Turkish title
The Violent Breed - English title
Django Rides Again - English title
Django’s Great Return - U.S.A. title
Desperado - U.S.A. title
Keoma the Avenger - U.S.A. title
A 1975 Italian production [Uranos Cinematografica (Rome)]
Producer: Manolo Bolognini
Director: Enzo G. Castellari (Enzo Girolami)
Story: Luigi Montefiore
Screenplay: Mino Roli (Emminio Pontiroli), Nico Ducci, Luigi Montefiore, Enzo G. Castellari (Enzo Girolami)
Dialogue: Nick Alexander [English]
Cinematography: Aiace Parolin [Eastmancolor, Techniscope]
Music: Guido & Maurizio De Angelis
Songs: “Keoma” sung by Sybl and Guy (Susan Duncan Smith & Cesare De Natale), “In Front of My Desperation” sung by Guy (Cesare De Natale)
Running time: 105 minutes
Cast:
Keoma Shannon - Franco Nero (Francesco Sparanero)
Lisa - Olga Karlatos (Olga Vlassopoulos)
George - Woody Strode (Woodrow Strode)
William Shannon - William Berger (Wilhelm Berger)
Caldwell - Donald O’Brien (Donal O’Brien)
Butch Shannon - Orso Maria Guerrini
Lenny Shannon - Antonio Marsina
Cham/Sam Shannon - John Loffredo
doctor - Leon Lenoir (Leopoldo Scavino)
‘The Witch’ - Gabriella Giacobbe
Confederate soldiers - Wolfgang Soldati, Massimo Vanni
brothel owner - Victoria Zinny
Caldwell henchmen - Ken Wood (Giovanni Cianfriglia), Domenico Cianfriglia, Arnaldo Dell Acqua, Roberto Dell Acqua, Angelo Ragusa, Riccardo Pizzuti
plague victim - Pierangelo Civera
saloon patron - Sergio Ruggeri
with: Alfio Caltabiano
Keoma, a half-breed Indian, returns to his native country after having fought in the Civil War. Unfortunately the situation is much changed: the town is in the hands of the evil Caldwell and everyone is against him except his stepfather and an old Negro friend. With the help of both the man tries to return things as they were before his departure, but will have to face-off with his stepbrothers.
YouTube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGNBytXK4R4
Monday, November 28, 2011
50 Reasons why The Good, the Bad and the Ugly might just be the greatest film of all time
Cool article on why "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" just might be the greatest film of all time. Hard to argue against his reasoning.
Who Are Those Guys - Hermann Basler
BASLER, Hermann (Hermann Siegfried Basler) [10/6/1896, Ludwigshafen, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany - 9/17/1982, Inning am Ammersee, Bavaria, Germany] - producer, director, screenwriter, cameraman, son of director Adolf Basler, screenwriter Mary Basler.
Bull Arizona - The Desert Eagle - 1919 (Bull Arizona)
Bull Arizona - Legacy of the Plains - 1919 (Bull Arizona)
Bull Arizona - The Heroine of the Prairie - 1919 (Bull Arizona)
Happy 70th Birthday Laura Antonelli

Sunday, November 27, 2011
Spaghetti Western Locations
Continuing locations for "Duck You Sucker". As the train approaches Sean separates himself from Juan and his family by going to the far side of the track. When the train finally passes Juan finds only Sean’s horse with his hat over the horses ears. Sean has stolen a ride on the locomotive and has left the family behind. This location is further along the Hernan Valle line going towards Gaudix.
For a more detailed view of this site and other Spaghetti Western locations please visit my friend Yoshi ‘Garringo’ Yasuda’s excellent website: thttp://y-yasuda.net/
Kentina
Kentina - U.K. title
A 2010 British production [Damaged Goods Entertainment, Ivory Films (London)]
Producers: Michael J. Berwick (Michael John Berwick), Jon Smith
Director: Michael J. Berwick (Michael John Berwick)
Story: Michael J. Berwick (Michael John Berwick), Jon Smith
Screenplay: Michael J. Berwick (Michael John Berwick), Jon Smith
Cinematography: Jon Smith (color)
Music: Chris Matthews
Running time: 19 minutes
Cast:
Outlaw Dutch - Jason Croot
Red - Nigel Casey
Garrett - Spencer Austin
sheriff - Paul Adams
outlaws - Nick Berwick, Martin Pickering
Emily - Hannah Gover
bounty hunter - Tony Adams
with: Stan Fillery
Garrett is a desperate man trying to escape his life as an outlaw to return to Emily, the girl he fell in love with, in the hope for a peaceful life. But his brother Red, and fellow bandits are not just going to let him leave the life he chose.
YouTube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XF-ydKbgGto
A 2010 British production [Damaged Goods Entertainment, Ivory Films (London)]
Producers: Michael J. Berwick (Michael John Berwick), Jon Smith
Director: Michael J. Berwick (Michael John Berwick)
Story: Michael J. Berwick (Michael John Berwick), Jon Smith
Screenplay: Michael J. Berwick (Michael John Berwick), Jon Smith
Cinematography: Jon Smith (color)
Music: Chris Matthews
Running time: 19 minutes
Cast:
Outlaw Dutch - Jason Croot
Red - Nigel Casey
Garrett - Spencer Austin
sheriff - Paul Adams
outlaws - Nick Berwick, Martin Pickering
Emily - Hannah Gover
bounty hunter - Tony Adams
with: Stan Fillery
Garrett is a desperate man trying to escape his life as an outlaw to return to Emily, the girl he fell in love with, in the hope for a peaceful life. But his brother Red, and fellow bandits are not just going to let him leave the life he chose.
YouTube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XF-ydKbgGto
Remembering Pedro Hebenstreit

Saturday, November 26, 2011
Happy 50th Birthday Raffaella Leone

Happy 85th Birthday Ralf Wolter

Happy 90th Birthday Tom Felleghy

Friday, November 25, 2011
Guess Who I Am
Rex Lee correctly identified this week's photo as that Annabella Incontrera.
KARATE, FISTS AND BEANS
Storia di karatè, pugni e fagioli - Italian title
La ley del karate en el Oeste - Spanish title
Siete contra todos - Spanish title
Karatê, Murros e Feijão - Brazilian title
Du ka karate mig her og der - Danish title
Karatekauhu lännessä Karate - Finnish title
Fäuste, Bohnen und... Karate! - German title
Karate i vilda västern - Swedish title
Karate, yumruk ve Fasulye hikayesi - Turkish title
The Friendly One - English title
Story of Karate, Fists and Beans - English title
Karate, Fists and Beans - English title
A 1973 Italian, Spanish co-production [National Cinematografica (Rome), P.C. Balcazar (Barcelona)]
Producer: Sergio Borelli
Director: Tonino Ricci
Story: Alfonso Balcazar
Screenplay: Arpad De Riso, Giovanni Scolaro
English dialogue: Ted Rusoff
Cinematography: Jaime Deu Casas [Eastmancolor]
Music: Juniper (Guido & Maurizio De Angelis)
Running time: 92 minutes
Cast:
Sam - Dean Reed
Buddy Piccolo/Small - Cris Huerta (Crisanto Brieva)
Moikako Fujibashi - Iwao Yoshioka (Ivao Yoshika)
Colonel Randolf Quint - Alfredo Mayo (Alfredo Martinez)
Tired Finger - Pino Ferrara (Giuseppe Ferrara)
Ken Goldenhand - Sal Borgese (Salvatore Borgese)
farmer - Dante Cleri
Clint Goldenhand - Ángel Aranda
sheriff - Luis Induni (Luigi Radici)
Morgan - Renato Malavasi
Mexican dancer - Carla Mancini
Espartero - Fernando Sancho (Fermando Les)
‘Baby’ Morgan - Francesca Romana Coluzzi
Johnson - Gustavo Re
Freddy - Freddy Unger (Geoffredo Unger)
Espartero henchman - Franco Ukmar
with: Ivan Torres, Gaspar González, Irene d’Astrea, Claudio Ruffini, Antonio Almorós (Ramón Almorós) Ángel Lombarte
Sam and Buddy Piccolo, two highwaymen, go to a convent to find food, instead they find the golden hand of St. Quirinus missing and chase, Colonel Randolf Quint who is disguised as a guardian and has stolen the hand. They end up becoming allies with him when they find out he is working with the banker Morgan to rescue his kidnapped daughter held by Espartaco and his gang. The hand was going to be given to the kidnappers as ransom. Another plan was to have Tired Finger a forger make and sell fake dollars to Espataco but it does not succeed. The forger’s two sons Kent and Clint as well as a Japanese chef named Moikako join Quint, Sam and Buddy. The band enters the hideout of Espartero, with Sam posing as the famous "Brain" while Moikako proposes to capture the outlaw using his karate skills. Baby Morgan is liberated, by the band and Espartero is captured and imprisoned.
La ley del karate en el Oeste - Spanish title
Siete contra todos - Spanish title
Karatê, Murros e Feijão - Brazilian title
Du ka karate mig her og der - Danish title
Karatekauhu lännessä Karate - Finnish title
Fäuste, Bohnen und... Karate! - German title
Karate i vilda västern - Swedish title
Karate, yumruk ve Fasulye hikayesi - Turkish title
The Friendly One - English title
Story of Karate, Fists and Beans - English title
Karate, Fists and Beans - English title
A 1973 Italian, Spanish co-production [National Cinematografica (Rome), P.C. Balcazar (Barcelona)]
Producer: Sergio Borelli
Director: Tonino Ricci
Story: Alfonso Balcazar
Screenplay: Arpad De Riso, Giovanni Scolaro
English dialogue: Ted Rusoff
Cinematography: Jaime Deu Casas [Eastmancolor]
Music: Juniper (Guido & Maurizio De Angelis)
Running time: 92 minutes
Cast:
Sam - Dean Reed
Buddy Piccolo/Small - Cris Huerta (Crisanto Brieva)
Moikako Fujibashi - Iwao Yoshioka (Ivao Yoshika)
Colonel Randolf Quint - Alfredo Mayo (Alfredo Martinez)
Tired Finger - Pino Ferrara (Giuseppe Ferrara)
Ken Goldenhand - Sal Borgese (Salvatore Borgese)
farmer - Dante Cleri
Clint Goldenhand - Ángel Aranda
sheriff - Luis Induni (Luigi Radici)
Morgan - Renato Malavasi
Mexican dancer - Carla Mancini
Espartero - Fernando Sancho (Fermando Les)
‘Baby’ Morgan - Francesca Romana Coluzzi
Johnson - Gustavo Re
Freddy - Freddy Unger (Geoffredo Unger)
Espartero henchman - Franco Ukmar
with: Ivan Torres, Gaspar González, Irene d’Astrea, Claudio Ruffini, Antonio Almorós (Ramón Almorós) Ángel Lombarte
Sam and Buddy Piccolo, two highwaymen, go to a convent to find food, instead they find the golden hand of St. Quirinus missing and chase, Colonel Randolf Quint who is disguised as a guardian and has stolen the hand. They end up becoming allies with him when they find out he is working with the banker Morgan to rescue his kidnapped daughter held by Espartaco and his gang. The hand was going to be given to the kidnappers as ransom. Another plan was to have Tired Finger a forger make and sell fake dollars to Espataco but it does not succeed. The forger’s two sons Kent and Clint as well as a Japanese chef named Moikako join Quint, Sam and Buddy. The band enters the hideout of Espartero, with Sam posing as the famous "Brain" while Moikako proposes to capture the outlaw using his karate skills. Baby Morgan is liberated, by the band and Espartero is captured and imprisoned.
Happy 75th Birthday Matt Clark

Remembering Jeffrey Hunter

Hunter served in the U.S. Navy at Great Lakes Naval Station in Illinois 1945-1946. He then attended Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois where he received a bachelor’s degree from the School of Speech. He continued his stage appearances and was featured in the 1949 film version of "Julius Caesar", which starred Charlton Heston.
Attending UCLA on a scholarship, Hunter was spotted by Hollywood talent scouts while appearing in a school production of "All My Sons" in May of 1950. He made a screen test at Paramount, but was hired by 20th Century Fox where he made his first "mainstream" film appearance in Fox's "Fourteen Hours", a film which also served as the debut for Grace Kelly.
Over the next two decades, Jeffrey Hunter would show his versatility as an actor by starring or co-starring in a wide variety of movies – dramas, comedies, westerns, science fiction and war films. He often played the handsome decent, wholesome suitor or husband in domestic contemporary dramas and comedies of the period. This included such films as "The Searchers" (1956) with John Wayne, "King of Kings" (1961) where he played a memorable Jesus Christ. When his Hollywood career slowed he went to Europe and appeared in several Italian and international co-productions including four Euro-westerns starting with "Murieta" 1965, "The Christmas Kid" (1966), "Custer of the West" (1967) and "Find a Place to Die" (1968).
In 1969, while filming "Viva America!" in Spain, Jeffrey Hunter was accidentally injured in an explosion on the set. Soon afterward he began complaining of dizziness and headaches. He was briefly hospitalized upon his return to Los Angeles. Shortly afterward, on May 27th, 1969, he suffered a cerebral hemorrhage while on a stairway in his home. He fell and struck his head. He died during surgery to repair the skull fracture. Jeffrey Hunter was 42 years of age. Today we remember Jeffrey Hunter on what would have been his 85th birthday.
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Happy 70th Birthday Pino Donaggio

Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Happy 45th Birthday Vincent Cassel

Happy 70th Birthday Franco Nero

Remembering Giorgio Simonelli

Tuesday, November 22, 2011
RIP Robert Party

Party in the theater working with Robert Robert Hossein in "Julius Caesar" and "The Affair of the letter from Lyon" in 1985 and 1987. Follow "The Prince of Homburg" with Jacques Mauclair, "Eurydice" by Jean Anouilh, with George Wilson in 1991, "Pygmalion" by George Bernard Shaw Bernard Murat in 1993 and again with Robert Hossein in "Angelique Marquise of the Angels" in 1995.
An actor known for his roles on television, Thierry la Fronde to the Tiger Brigades parallel to the theater, Robert Party has embodied to may for television roles. He played in "Thierry la Fronde" in 1966 and then in "The Adventures of Vidocq" where it is Fouche in 1971.
Roles remain the most emblematic Louis of Evreux in the series "cursed Kings" (1972), the Earl of Rhuys / Poker Ace in the series "Poker Aces" (1973) or his character in "The Brigades of the Tiger "(1978).
In film, his career took off in the 1970s. He toured with Rene Clement in "The Course of the hare through fields" (1971), with Luis Bunuel in "The discreet charm of the bourgeoisie" or Claude Pinoteau in "silent". He also shot four films with his friend Henri Verneuil, including "The Serpent" in 1972, "I like Icarus" in 1979, and "trillion" in 1981).
Party Robert finished his career by dubbing and synchronization of films including "The Lion King." He also lent his voice to the actor Leonard Nimoy in "Star Trek II". Party was the voice of Cesar in the 1994 animated western "Asterix Conquers America".
Who are Those Guys - Pasquale Basile
BASILE, Pasquale (aka Pat Basil, Pasquale Basil, Pasquale Negro) [193?, Italy - ] - master of arms.
The Two Sergeants of General Custer - 1965
Yankee - 1966 (Gold Teeth)
Heads or Tails - 1968
The Longest Hunt - 1968
Thompson 1880 - 1968 (Lucky) [as Pat Basil]
God Will Forgive My Gun - 1969
Chapaqua’s Gold - 1970 [as Pat Basile]
Zorro the Rider of Vengeance - 1971
Two Sons of Trinity - 1972 (Requiem)
Where the Bullets Fly - 1972
Monday, November 21, 2011
RIP Eva Monley

Morricone in Love!
Thursday November 24, 2011, 8:30 p.m.
In a fusion of live music and cinema, f’eatre explore the haunting wordless female vocal and the psychedelic lounge trip of Ennio Morricone’s cult Italian ‘Giallo’ genre film scores of 1968-72. Expect a triptastic mix of hypnotic jazz rhythms, bossa beats, soaring soprano and avant garde expressionism – all to a stunning backdrop of the original film visuals. Think Alain Delon wrestling 6ft black eels on the Sicilian Coast, tranced out 60 yr olds in psychedelic orgies, lesbian dream sequences, beautiful women found dead in fridges...Yes, it's all sex and death in the wonderful world of Morricone in Love!
F’eatre are the extraordinarily talented Fiona Staniland (producer, chanteuse), long time collaborator, Nick Ramm (musical arrangements, keyboards), who team up with a superb group of musicians form the London jazz scene: Alex Keen (basses) Jon Scott (drums), Jon Gingell (guitars) and Gerry Hunt (clarinet, flute, sax, trumpet).
www.fionastaniland.com
www.myspace.com/fionastaniland
Prices:
£15 - Adults
£13 - Concessions
£12 - Members
Buy tickets online or on 0871 902 5732 (10p a minute from a landline)
[Thanks to Vicky Millington for giving me the heads-up on this event]
Justice of the Red Skin
Le justice du peau-rouges - French title
Justice of the Red Skin - English title
A 1908 French production [Pathé Frères (Paris)]
Producer: ?
Director: ?
Story: ?
Screenplay: ?
Cinematography: ? [black & white]
Running time: 155 meters
Cast: ?
An Indian and a somewhat corpulent little white girl are in a meadow where he helps her pick flowers. They see a stranger in search of his way. They go with him to an inn. The weary traveler sits down and invites the Indian to have a drink. The server holding that the inn has a lot of foreign money in then slips a drug into their drink and they fall asleep. The server wastes no time searching the pockets of the men, when suddenly the girl appears and gives the alarm. The server grabs her and strangles her to death then hides her body under a pile of straw in a nearby barn The child's parents arrive at the inn in search of their little girl. Seeing the two men asleep, they wake them to see if they have seen the child. The traveler then realizes he’s been robbed and accuses the Indian who protests his innocence and sets out to find the culprit. The traveler catches up and what follows is a fierce battle with the Indian the winner. He brings his prisoner bound hand and foot back to the inn. There he confronts the murderer after finding the victim's body and now a vigilante drags the miserable killer up a precipice and throws him into the stream which he hopes he will not come out alive.
Justice of the Red Skin - English title
A 1908 French production [Pathé Frères (Paris)]
Producer: ?
Director: ?
Story: ?
Screenplay: ?
Cinematography: ? [black & white]
Running time: 155 meters
Cast: ?
An Indian and a somewhat corpulent little white girl are in a meadow where he helps her pick flowers. They see a stranger in search of his way. They go with him to an inn. The weary traveler sits down and invites the Indian to have a drink. The server holding that the inn has a lot of foreign money in then slips a drug into their drink and they fall asleep. The server wastes no time searching the pockets of the men, when suddenly the girl appears and gives the alarm. The server grabs her and strangles her to death then hides her body under a pile of straw in a nearby barn The child's parents arrive at the inn in search of their little girl. Seeing the two men asleep, they wake them to see if they have seen the child. The traveler then realizes he’s been robbed and accuses the Indian who protests his innocence and sets out to find the culprit. The traveler catches up and what follows is a fierce battle with the Indian the winner. He brings his prisoner bound hand and foot back to the inn. There he confronts the murderer after finding the victim's body and now a vigilante drags the miserable killer up a precipice and throws him into the stream which he hopes he will not come out alive.
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