We’ve finally been able to identify who the actors are at the beginning of Enzo G. Castellari’s 1967“Any Gun Can Play” starring Edd Byrnes, George Hilton and Gilbert Roland. When Variety reviewed the film, their hapless scribe didn't know who Franco Nero & Django were, and said it was a "Robert Taylor" look-alike!!!
At the beginning of the film, we see three riders from
behind riding slowly down a windblown street approaching a wagon driven by a
lone driver with a man dressed in black walking behind. The camera pans around
to the front of the riders, and we see their faces: obviously to Spaghetti
western fans they are dressed to represent Colonel Mortimer, Django and The Man
With No Name. Mortimer stops the wagon when he sees it is carrying three
coffins and asks who they are. The man in black behind the wagon says in a calm
voice Paco Diaz, José Huerta, and
Jesus Sanchez. Long ago we identified Mortimer (José
Huerta) as José Torres but the other two remained elusive to say the least in identifying
them. I and Michael Ferguson even
e-mailed Enzo Castellari over the years and both of us
were told he didn’t remember who the actors were. Well Mike finally Senor
Ferguson in his unendless pursuit was able to find out who the remaining two
actors are. Django (Paco Diaz) was
Sergio Testori and No Name (Jesus Sanchez) was played by Luciano Odorisio. This
entire scene is cut on most releases of the film but it was true genius on Enzo’s
part of parody and has been restored on later DVD and Blu-ray releases.
Django (Paco Diaz) was played by Sergio Testori
No Name (Jesus Sanchez) was played by Luciano Odorisio
Colonel Mortimer (José Huerta) was played by José Torres
[Thanks to Michael Ferguson for clearing up a long-standing mystery and cinema-italiano-db.de.]
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