Sunday, May 31, 2020

Spaghetti Western Locations for “Day of Anger”


We continue our search for filming locations for “Day of Anger”. The following morning at sunrise Talby and Owen White meet in an open field on horseback with front loading rifles. The duel begins but Talby has a trick. He’s placed the miniball in his mouth which allows him to load the rifle faster and easier. Talby is able to load and fire a split second before White and kills him.

 
This scene was filmed at a farmer’s field along highway AL3108 just northwest of San Jose, Spain. 



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/

Voices of the Spaghetti Western ~ “Dallas”


As we know most of the Euro-westerns were co-productions from Italy, Spain, Germany and France which incorporated British and American actors to gain a worldwide audience. The films were shot silent and then dubbed into the various languages where they were sold for distribution. That means Italian, Spanish, German, French and English voice actors were hired to dub the films. Even actors from the countries where the film was to be shown were often dubbed by voice actors for various reasons such as the actors were already busy making another film, they wanted to paid additional salaries for dubbing their voices, the actor’s voice didn’t fit the character they were playing, accidents to the actors and in some cases even death before the film could be dubbed.

I’ll list a Euro-western and the (I) Italian, (S) Spanish, (G) German and (F) French, (E) English voices that I can find and once in a while a bio on a specific voice actor as in Europe these actors are as well-known as the actors they voiced.














Today we’ll cover “Dallas”
[(I) Italian, (S) Spanish, (G) German, (F) French, (E) English]

Dallas – Anthony Steffen (I) Sergio Graziani, (S) Rogelio Hernández, (G) Andreas von der Meden
Aguadulce – Fernando Sancho (I) Carlo Romano, (S) Felipe Peña, (G) Arnold Marquis
Glenda Kelly – Gillian Hills (I) ?, (S) María Luisa Solá, (G) ?
Rompemanos – Ricardo Palacios (I) ?, (S) Antonio Fernández Sánchez, (G ) ?
Brownville Sheriff – Sergio Dore (I) Sergio Dore, (S) Luis Posada Mendoza, (G) ?











Sergio Graziani [1930-2018]

Sergio Graziani was born in Udine, Italy on November 10, 1930. He  attended the Silvio d'Amico National Academy of Dramatic Arts, and began his career on stage in the late 1950s with an appearance in “The Power and the Gloru” by Graham Greene and directed by Luigi Squarzina. He then went on to appear in other plays by authors such as Camus and Pasolini. Since the 1950s he dedicated to voice dubbing. He dubbed Donald Sutherland and Peter O'Toole in most of their films. In 1999 he gave his voice to Professor Farnsworth from ‘Futurama’ for the first five seasons of the show, until he was replaced by Mino Caprio in the second run of the show. He also appeared in a few films and TV dramas between 1960 and 2000. Graziani officially retired from his career in 2014. He then worked as a painter and showed his work in numerous exhibitions both in Italy and abroad. He published two volumes of poems on of which, Chiaro di rabbia was a finalist for the Martina Franca Prize. Graziani died in Rome on May 25, 2018, at the age of 87.

Who Are Those Composers? ~ Franco Pisano



Francesco ‘Franco’ Pisano was born in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy on December 10, 1922. He was the older brother of composer Berto Pisano [1928-2002]. Franco studied violin, classical guitar, and piano at the Conservatory of Cagliari. He started his career as a musician with his brother in the jazz group Asternovas. Later in his career he concentrated on composing pop songs and musical scores for films and television programs. He died of liver cancer at the age of 54.


PISANO, Franco (Francesco Pisano) [12/10/1922, Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy – 1/6/1977, Rome, Lazio, Italy (liver cancer)] – composer, conductor, arranger, songwriter, singer, musician (violin, guitar, piano) brother of composer, conductor Berto Pisano [1928-2002], member of the group ‘Asternovas’.
The Terrible Sheriff – 1962 (co)
     Songs: “Era un Bullivan,” “Cotton Twist” sung by ?
The Relentless Four – 1964 (co)
     Song: “Ranger” sung by Raoul (Ettore Lovecchio)

Special Birthdays


Juan Bosch (director, screenwriter) would have been 95 today, he died in 2015.













Clint Eastwood (actor) is 90 today. 













Ngai Hon (screenwriter) is 85 today. 













Rainer Werner Fassbinder (director, screenwriter, actor) would have been 75 today, he died in 1982.

Saturday, May 30, 2020

RIP Dan van Husen


 RIP Dan van Husen
Veteran German actor Dan van Husen has died. He turned 75 on April 30th. Dan was born in Gummersbach, Renania Settentrionale-Vestfalia, Germany and was first discovered by Italian producers while working as a club disc jockey in Spain and began working increasingly seriously as an actor in the late 1960s. He appeared in twenty Euro Westerns before branching out into diverse roles and genres. He acted under the direction of directors such as Sergio Corbucci, Sergio Martino and Enzo G. Castellari. Dan also worked on German television and In 2001 he worked on “Band of Brothers”, a Steven Spielberg production. In June and July 2010 worked in southern California in the American Western film “Scarlet Worm”, the role of the antagonist Heinrich Kley, directed by Michael Fredianelli and in 2016 for Martin Koolhoven in “Brimstone” He was one of the great faces of the Euro-western genre in such films as “A Bullet for Sandoval”, “El Condor” both 1969; “Captain Apache”, “Doc” both 1970, “Bad Man’s River”, “Catlow”, “Pancho Villa” all in 1971; “Sonny & Jed”, “The White, the Yellow, the Black” (1974); “Yankee Dudler” (1975), he will be missed.

New film photo collection to collect

The Classic Heroes Verlag starts a new picture subscription with photos of the Winnetou films with "Winnetou" Pierre Brice and "Old Shatterhand" Lex Barker.


Classic Heroes Verlag from Hohenfurch in Bavaria recently started a Karl May film picture subscription. As part of the "Pierre Brice & Lex Barker - The Big Film Pictures Collection" collection, the publisher offers a regular delivery of a selection of the most beautiful film photos from the inventory of the renowned film photographer Lothar Winkler, on whose account some of the most effective motifs from the shooting of Karl -May films of the 1960s go.

As the website of the publisher shows, there are also some classic photo motifs, including "Winnetou" Pierre Brice and "Ribanna" Karin Dor on the verge of filming "Winnetou 2nd part" (a similar motif adorned KARLMAY & Co. No. 82 from November 2000) or "Winnetou" Pierre Brice during promo recordings for "Winnetou 1st part" (see the cover of KARL MAY & Co. No. 95 from February 2004).

Subscribers receive ten DIN A5 photos per month - "in high quality", as the publisher reports. Publisher Thorsten Lehmann has created two subscription models: The "Standard" subscription at a price of 39.95 euros per month including shipping costs within Germany includes a monthly delivery of ten photos, the "Premium" subscription (59.95 euros per month incl . Shipping costs to Germany) includes, in addition to the monthly delivery, other exclusive special products such as photo books, calendars and T-shirts. According to Lehmann, the collection is a "limited action limited to 100 participants".

The first delivery comes with a free A4 poster by Pierre Brice as Winnetou (exactly this motif of the grinning Brice-Winnetous also adorned the cover of KARL MAY & Co. No. 75 from February 1999); the publisher also offers an illustrated collection folder (photo) for the pictures of the subscription, which subscribers also receive free of charge with the fourth delivery.

The publisher, which has already published numerous film books from the "Kino-Aushangfotos" edition of the Karl May films, recently also launched a Lex Barker fan edition called "Butterflies & Gentleman". For the price of 99.95 euros (until May 31, 2020, afterwards 120 euros) fans will receive a film calendar, a puzzle edition and a film book with Lex Barker images.

All products could be ordered on the publisher's website www.classicheroes.de.

German Festival: Cancellations, postponements, Winzendorf wants to play


 
"Winnetou" Joseph Schützenhofer in Winzendorf (Photo: Festival Winzendorf)

After most of the Karl May Festivals - including Bad Segeberg and Elspe - announced weeks ago the corona-related shift in their summer season to 2021, there is now news from Dasing and Winzendorf.

The South German Karl May Festival Dasing (Bavaria) recently announced the postponement of the performance of the play "Winnetou and Captain Kaiman", which was actually planned for this summer, "probably" until 2021. However, according to festival manager Volker Waschk, there is "a plan B to hold the Karl May Festival this summer - but this is deliberately very different from the usual and therefore not comparable". Depending on how the situation develops, one might want to bring "an exciting event with significantly fewer spectators (approx. 1/5) and a significantly smaller ensemble", "which remains in the Wild West theme, Karl May and Winnetou, but should and will clearly differ from a normal festival play”. Waschk calls this an "alternative festival".

At the request of KARL MAY & Co., the Karl May Festival in Winzendorf in Lower Austria confirmed the intention to hold the summer season as planned on August 8 with the play "Winnetou and the Oil Prince". "According to the current requirements, we can let our production take place with a reduced number of visitors as planned from August 8th, 2020," said Helene Exel of the Festival. And further: “Of course, all legal requirements only apply as long as the infection numbers are under control. The burden only falls off our shoulders when the Dernière on August 23, has successfully passed the stage”. For a few years now, Winzendorf has been playing in a hall-like building and no longer on an open-air stage, as was the case many years after the festival was founded in 1994.

Just a few weeks ago, the western town of Pullman City Bayern announced that the Karl May games Pullman City Bayern would definitely be held this summer; however, the premiere was postponed by a month to July 11th. However, the organization of the festival, which wants to show the play "Winnetou and the Secret About Old Surehand" by October, should pose challenges for the organizers, because "a minimum distance of 1.50 meters from other people must be observed", as is the case on Pullman -City website called for.

It is still unclear whether and if so when the festival in Burgrieden (Baden-Württemberg) will start with "Old Surehand".

Special Birthdays


Edoardo Torricella (actor) is 85 today. 











Claus Dobberke (director) is 80 today. 

Friday, May 29, 2020

Who Are Those Guys? ~ Ernesto Colli



Ernesto Colli was born in Biella, Piedmont, Italy on May 16, 1940. Colli graduated from liceo classico, then he started acting in some amateur dramatics and starred in two lost Super 8 films. After one year of university he decided to abandon his studies to enroll the Fersen Drama School in Rome.

A real life friend of Vittorio Gassman, Colli often acted alongside him, especially on stage, and he made his film debut playing a small role in the Gassman's film “The Devil in Love” He then appeared in a large number of movies and TV-series, uually in character roles. Colli was mostly active in films during the 1970s. Equipped with a particularly disturbing face, Ernesto Colli always appeared in customized roles written specifically for him, from the crazy to the delinquent and from the possessed to the weird; probably the films where he had a most significant part was ‘The Pleasure Shop on 7th Avenue” and in ‘Deadly Inheritance”.

The last role he played was that of a porter of a stable in Rome, in the movie “Pierino La Peste Alla Riscossa!”, shot a few months before his death and in which he already appeared with the face and the physique brought on by disease. Colli died in Rome, Italy on November 19, 1982/


COLLI, Ernesto (aka Ernest Arold) [5/16/1940, Biella, Piedmont, Italy – 11/19/1982, Rome, Lazio, Italy] – theater, film, TV actor.
Kill the Poker Player – 1972 (Doctor Torres/Norton)
Red Coat – 1975 (photographer)

Thursday, May 28, 2020

Spaghetti Western Location ~ San Salvatore di Cabras, Italy


Many Spaghetti Westerns were shot in the Spanish desert region of Almería and a few around Rome, but some were filmed in and around San Salvatore di Cabras, a small Sardinia village outside of Cabras near Oristano. If you go to San Salvatore di Cabras, you’ll find many house facades that look like they popped right out of a Wild West set, because, well, they pretty much have. They were transformed in the 1960’s during the heyday of Spaghetti Westerns into Western towns for movies. There’s even a bar in San Salvatore that a cowboy wouldn’t feel uncomfortable in.

Garter Colt (Italian: ”Giarrettiera Colt”) is a 1968 Italian spaghetti western directed by Gian Andrea Rocco and filmed entirely in Sinis in 1969. It is one of the rare Italo-westerns with a woman as lead character and it is an icon of Quentin Tarantino.
But San Salvatore isn’t just about Spaghetti Westerns. The Festival of San Salvatore, which takes place the 1st weekend of September, is one of the oldest festivals in Sardinia. San Salvatore can seem deserted any other time of the year; many people maintain small houses here just to house their families during the festival.

The journalist Luca Bottura, said that Sergio Leone shot some scenes of his film "For a Few Dollars More" in Sardinia, the claim has no basis, but has been around for years on the web. The facts regarding the Spaghetti Western epic are quite clear, on the island only a few minor films have been made, the most famous, also thanks to the participation of the actress loved by Quentin Tarantino, Nicoletta Machiavelli is undoubtedly "Garter Colt ". The setting is in Mexico, but the scenes were all shot in San Salvatore di Sinis and its surroundings. Macchiavelli herself recalls of that film: “GIARRETTIERA COLT” was an incredible experience: I had already shot" other westerns, that is with more or less classic stories with a bit of violence, to cash in on the spaghetti-western vein. But as for Garter Colt, I had never seen a story like this one: the story of this woman with a colt in her garter who, dressed and attired in nineteenth century style, with a low neckline and side slit dress for, in fact,  for her to have easy access to her garter, who rides over the prairies and salt marshes of Sardinia and encounters strange characters to say the least ... Garter Colt - continues Nicoletta - is an anti-western, controversial and provocative, an attempt to desecrate the genre of pistolero films. We shot it with the cinematographic collage method, alternating grotesque, melodramatic, romantic, western sequences. Even Giovanni Fusco's musical score follows this pattern: with music of noble Trovadoric-Provencal inspiration, beat motifs, or lyrical pieces played by electronic instruments follow La Stampa August 29, 1968 page 6. Arriving in Sardinia now, you won’t find a trace of that small set in San Salvatore di Sinis, but with a little imagination and after watching the movie ... and wanting to eat something, stop by Abraxas, it looks like a saloon and the owner has some story to tell there to tell.

You Tube short film on this location San Salvatore di Cabras, Italy:

 

 
“Garter Colt” (1969)



 
 
“Garter Colt” (1969)

Special Birthdays


Francisco Sanchez Munoz (cinematographer) is 95 today.
Heinz Reincke (actor) would have been 95 today, he died in 2011.

Wednesday, May 27, 2020

German Festival: Cancellations, postponements, Winzendorf wants to play


"Winnetou" Joseph Schützenhofer in Winzendorf (Photo: Festival Winzendorf)

After most of the Karl May Festivals - including Bad Segeberg and Elspe - announced weeks ago the corona-related shift in their summer season to 2021, there is now news from Dasing and Winzendorf.

The South German Karl May Festival Dasing (Bavaria) recently announced the postponement of the performance of the play "Winnetou and Captain Kaiman", which was actually planned for this summer, "probably" until 2021. However, according to festival manager Volker Waschk, there is "a plan B to hold the Karl May Festival this summer - but this is deliberately very different from the usual and therefore not comparable". Depending on how the situation develops, one might want to bring "an exciting event with significantly fewer spectators (approx. 1/5) and a significantly smaller ensemble", "which remains in the Wild West theme, Karl May and Winnetou, but should and will clearly differ from a normal festival play”. Waschk calls this an "alternative festival".

At the request of KARL MAY & Co., the Karl May Festival in Winzendorf in Lower Austria confirmed the intention to hold the summer season as planned on August 8 with the play "Winnetou and the Oil Prince". "According to the current requirements, we can let our production take place with a reduced number of visitors as planned from August 8th, 2020," said Helene Exel of the Festival. And further: “Of course, all legal requirements only apply as long as the infection numbers are under control. The burden only falls off our shoulders when the Dernière on August 23, has successfully passed the stage”. For a few years now, Winzendorf has been playing in a hall-like building and no longer on an open-air stage, as was the case many years after the festival was founded in 1994.

Just a few weeks ago, the western town of Pullman City Bayern announced that the Karl May games Pullman City Bayern would definitely be held this summer; however, the premiere was postponed by a month to July 11th. However, the organization of the festival, which wants to show the play "Winnetou and the Secret About Old Surehand" by October, should pose challenges for the organizers, because "a minimum distance of 1.50 meters from other people must be observed", as is the case on Pullman -City website called for.

It is still unclear whether and if so when the festival in Burgrieden (Baden-Württemberg) will start with "Old Surehand".

The short film 'Arizona 1878' is recognized in the U.S.A.


La Tribuna de Albacete
May 6, 2020

Albacete director Manuel Olaya's work achieves a certificate of merit at the 'Rochester International Film Festival'


Director Manuel Olaya (left) talks to Micky Molina during the filming of the tape.

The short film Arizona 1878, a history of the old West, by Albacete historical filmmaker and recreationist Manuel Olaya continues its journey through international festivals since it was selected at the Almería Western Film Festival in Tabernas, specifically, it was selected at the Cape Verde Film Festival in Sal Island (South Africa), the 20th Sala de los Infantes (Burgos) Short Film Competition and more recently at the Rochester International Film Festival in New York, where it also obtained a certificate of artistic merit.

Olaya assures us that it is "a dream to have obtained a selection in an American film competition and more than to have been awarded the certificate of merit, recognition given to works that do not reach the grand final, but where the organizers appreciate some remarkable quality or mastery of some of the keys to its realization, be it a good story, a good edition or an outstanding costume design, set design, setting, etc.

"For me," he continues, "it is just as important as an award itself, because everything that is good reviews and public recognition adds to the journey of the short film," which, he recalls, is inspired by the great North American productions of the golden age of Fart. West.

Arizona 1878 a history of the old West, is approximately 20 minutes long, in which the director also participates as a screenwriter and interpreter (plays Sheriff James Edwards), where the popular actor Micky Molina, Alex Navarro (known for his participation in the television series Águila Roja), Pedro López, José Varela, Quique Durio, the theater actress Ana María Olaya and Bruno Jiménez, among others, was filmed in Almería, although it also includes some locations in the province of Teruel, with the production of Aron Multimedia de Albacete, with José Campos as head of Production, and has a soundtrack by the composer from Almansa, Fran J. García and in the assembly work he had the Alicante Gilberto Villaplana.

new project. Olaya reveals to La Tribuna de Albacete, he also has a new short film project that will be set in the so-called "Gold Rush" in California in the mid-19th century, where it is also expected to have two actors from Arizona 1878, Pedro López and Quique Durio. "The filming was to take place this May and, logically, it has been postponed without a date, it is planned to shoot in Alcoy near a place with a stream, which allows us ideal locations for the moment in which the story unfolds".


Special Birthdays


Mel Evans (actor) would have been 85 today, he died in 1976.













Gary Reincke (actor) is 75 today.

Tuesday, May 26, 2020

Two new books coming on the film and stage history of Karl May


Karl-May-Verlag announces "Karl May auf der buhne" (Karl May on Stage) (Volume I) and "100 years of Karl May in the cinema".

Karl May & Co.
5/12/2020

  Cover picture for the first volume of the new stage book project "Karl May auf der buhne" ("Karl May on stage")










Cover picture "100 jahre Karl May in Kino" ("100 years Karl May in the cinema")

In the autumn of 2020, two new books for friends of the Karl May theaters and films will be published by Karl-May-Verlag.

It has been 21 years since the authors Reinhard Marheinecke and Nicolas Finke published their work “Karl May am Kalkberg” in the Karl-May-Verlag (KMV) on the history of the Segeberg Festival. 2001 and 2004 were followed by continuation of brochures from the same publisher, 2008 from Marheinecke-Verlag an illustrated book on Bad Segeberg in the 1980s. Now, again in the KMV, a new project is coming: "Karl May on Stage". “The idea came about 20 years ago on Reinhard Marheinecke's terrace in Hamburg. After Reinhard and I spent a few years playing on different playgrounds, the project should finally become a reality,” says Nicolas Finke. Three volumes in A4 format are planned, similar to the "Pierre-Brice-Edition" currently also appearing in the KMV. "We want to do justice to the phenomenon of 'Karl May on stage' by devoting ourselves to all the well-known festivals and productions, some in more detail, such as the long-running favorites Bad Segeberg, Rathen and Elspe. We also want to set thematic priorities - such as on the 'hall productions' - and occasionally add interviews,” says Finke. Marheinecke adds: “The number of performances since Karl May's death has been huge. We have been researching for many years and have come across a lot of news. For example, we are clearing up the widespread misconception that the world's first Karl May open-air theater was performed in Rathen, and we are also addressing productions that hardly anyone or no one knew about, including a festival in the field in 1913 Ukraine today,” says Marheinecke, who will also be publishing another of his Winnetou novels in the Bamberg publishing house in autumn, after the first title “Scorpio and Rattlesnake” published by KMV was a complete success. The first volume of the new stage book project is devoted to early productions in the first half of the 20th century and the success of open-air stages from Rathen to Ratingen to Bad Segeberg (approx. 400 pages with numerous color and black and white illustrations, hardcover, ISBN 978-3-7802-0143- 0, 39 euros, in Austria: 40.10 euros).

The publishing house also publishes the volume “100 Years of Karl May in the Cinema” in the classic film picture format, the author is Stefan von der Heiden,  a member of the Karl May (Film) Fan Group Berlin and author of KARL MAY & Co. Already in 1920 the first film after Karl May in the cinemas, and until today more than 25 strips with May-oriented adventures have been brought to the screen, more than any other German author. On 200 pages many previously unseen motifs can be seen, including shooting photos, documents advertising material and of course scenes from the respective films. The volume will cost 29 euros (Austria: 29.80 euros), the ISBN is 978-3-7802-3089-8.

For the first time, we are showing the two cover pictures that the graphic artist Torsten Greis, who is known in Karl May circles, designed.

Both new releases can now be pre-ordered in the Karl-May-Verlag shop.

Special Birthdays


Lesley Selander (director) would have been 120 today, he died in 1979.













Billy Beck (actor) would have been 100 today, he died in 2011.

Monday, May 25, 2020

Memorial Day 2020


New DVD Release “Gli Specialisti’


Gli Specialisti
(The Specialist)
(1969)

Director: Sergio Corbucci
Starring: John Halliday, Gastone Moschin, Francoise Fabian

Country: U.K.
Label: Eureka Classics
#MPEG-4 AVC
Number of discs: 1
Blu-ray
Region: B
New 4K restoration
Resolution: 1080p
Aspect: 2.35:1
Language: Italian, French, English
Subtitles: English
Running time: 104 minutes
Extras: Commentary by Alex Cox, Austin Fisher, trailer interview O-Card slipcase, collector booklet featuring Howard Hughes, for the first 2000 units,
ASIN: B0851LN9KK
Released: May 25, 2020