When Fraga became the stage for Spaghetti westerns [part 4 of 8]

 Between the years 1965 and 1972, two Catalan production companies made about seventy films of the spaghetti western genre in the West Bank. We’ll tell you about it.

Sapiens

Salvador Giné (text) / Àngel Comas (advice)

Changes of names of directors and actors depending on the country of release

In general, in exchange for the investment, the Italians reserved the right to distribute the film in Europe and South America. In order to penetrate more into these markets, they misplaced the origin of the film with the intention of making an American origin more credible using a strategy that did not cost money, only inventive: they changed the names of the directors. On the billboards of Italy or Argentina, for example, Alfonso Balcázar became Al Bagram; Ignacio F. Iquino, Steve McCoy, or Joan Bosch, in a literal John Wood (in the same way that the still unknown Sergio Leone had been called Bob Robertson). Actors were also renamed: Francisco Martínez Coleiro from Barcelona, ​​for example, was changed to George Martin.