A Rake's Romance

A Rake’s Romance – U.K. title

A 1909 British production [Cricks and Martin (London)]

Producer: George Howard Cricks, John Howard Martin

Director: A.E Colby

Story: ?

Screenplay: ?

Cinematography: [black & white]

Running time: ?

Cast:

Edwin J. Collins, A.E. Colby, David Aylott

Story: A miner stabs his partner for ownership of a goldmine and is in turn killed by an Indian.

[Thanks to Mike Ferguson for the additional information on producers George Howard Cricks, John Howard Martin.]

Malaria

Spaghetti Western style short film “Malaria” tells motion comics to step up their game.

Written by RoboPanda

Any time you can combine Spaghetti Western sensibility with graphic novelization and the Grim Reaper — and you can keep the whole thing under six minutes — I’m totally there. Edson Oda and friends accomplished this with “Malaria”, a short film about a hitman hired to kill Death to save a little girl from malaria. Oda combined Origami, Kirigami, Time lapse, nankin illustration, props, comics, Western movie tropes, and even fire into one seemingly-continuous shot that feels like an animated motion comic while being much more enthralling because the pages are real and the artists’ hands can be seen.

It also helps that the voice acting by Antonio Moreno and Rodrigo Araujo is excellent, as are the illustrations by João Pinheiro.

Edson Oda made Malaria to submit to the Django Unchained Emerging Artist contest, but he missed the deadline. He still wins if you ask us.

YouTube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeNerIa9j18

Malaria

Malaria – International title

A 2013 Brazilian production

Producer: Edson Oda, Sergio Prado, Alexandre Tommasi

Director: Edson Oda

Story: Edson Oda

Screenplay: Edson Oda

Cinematography: Sergio Prado

Music: Tiago Gamke, Rodrigo Meszaros, Christopher Scullion

Running time: 6 minutes

Cast:

Morte - Antonio  Moreno

Fabiano – Rodrigo Araujo

 Malaria, tells the story of Fabiano, a young Mercenary who is hired to kill Death.

Happy 75th Birthday Ugo Fangareggi

Ugo Fangareggi was born in Genoa, Liguria, Italy on January 30, 1928. He has appeared in over 80 films as a character actor using his real name and also aliases such as Fangar Hugh-Smith, Ugo Mudd, and William Spofford. Fangareggi has appeared in over 80 films and TV series. Among which were seven Euro-westerns including “The Last Gun” (1964) with Cameron Mitchell, “A Bullet for a Stranger” (1971) and “Massacre at Fort Holman” (1972) with James Coburn and Telly Savalas.

In the late 1990s he wrote articles for the newspaper Mondo Sabino.

One his best remembered roles was as Vetturino in “Cugino & Cugino” (2010). In 2007, he also worked with Fabrizio Bentivoglio appearing in the film “Lascia perdere, Johnny!” where he played the part of Peter Tagnin. He starred in the 2010 TV miniseries for BBC ONE ‘The Lord of the Scam’ with Gigi Proietti in the role of Osvaldo Franzoso, the caretaker of the building.

New DVD Release

The Tramplers

(1965)

Director: Albert Band

Starring: Joseph Cotton, Gordon Scott, James Mitchum

Label: Wild East - Spaghetti Western Collection Volume 44

Region 0 - NTSC

Extras: Photo Gallery

Release date: January 29, 2013

RAISE YOUR HANDS DEAD MAN YOU'RE UNDER ARREST

Un dólar para Sartana – Spanish title

Manos arriba, cadaver, estas detenido – Spanish title

Su le mani, cadaver! Sei in arrest – Italian title

Haenderne op doed mand! – Danish title

Sta of il schiet – Dutch title

Ça va chauffer, Sartana revient! – French title

Sando Kid spricht das letzte Halleluia – German title

Kitt, o vingador – Portuguese title

Raise Your Hands Dead Man, You’re Under Arrest – English title

A 1971 Spanish, Italian co-production [Dauro Films (Madrid)]

Producer: Espartaco Santoni

Director: León Klimovsky, Sergio Bergonzelli

Story: Jose Maria Elorrieta, Enrico Zuccarini

Screenplay: Jose Maria Elorrieta, José Luis Navarro, Enrico Zuccarini

Cinematography: Tonino Maccoppi (Antonio Maccoppi) [Eastmancolor, widescreen]

Music: Alessandro Alessandroni

Song: “Free as a Bird” sung by I Cantori Moderni

Running time: 94 minutes

Cast:

Sando Kid/Kid Johnson – Peter Lee Lawrence (Karl Hirenbach)

Mancino/Dollar – Espartaco Santoni

Maybelle/Mabel – Helga Liné (Helga Stern)

Padre ‘Bamba’ Brown – Franco Agostini

Lee Grayson – Aldo Sambrell (Alfredo Brell)

Mrs. Elizabeth Carson – Aurora de Alba

Arthur Carson – Tomás Blanco (Tomás Garcia)

Spiro/Angel – José Canalejas

Ballor – Lorenzo Robledo

J. Mac/The Scared – Luis Barboo

Ranger Captain – Alfonso de la Vega

Dora/Leonor Carson – Mary Zan (Maria Zanandrea)

Grayson henchman – Simón Arriaga

Sheriff – Antonio Cintado

Banker – Ramón Fernández Tejela (Jorge Tejela)

With: Giovanni Santoponte, Rafael Corés, Rafael de la Rosa, Jorge Tejela, Leon Klimovsky

A Texas Ranger ‘The Sando Kid’, disguised as a perfume salesman, is sent to clean up the town of Springfield, where the town boss Grayson a former Northern Army Captain is forcing ranchers to sell their land cheap so he can buy it and sell it to the approaching railroad. The Ranger eliminates the Grayson and his gang of thugs and ends up marrying Eleanor, the daughter of one of the ranchers.

YouTube trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nKrCwjmS5c