Spaghetti Western Trivia - Dean Reed [archived magazine articles]

 

Variety

3/7/1974

     Expatriate America singer, Dean Reed, is playing in “Keat and Co,” an East-German coproduction which recently wound shooting on location in suburban Petrozavodsk (Karelia), near the border with Finland. This is an adaptation of a short story by Jack London about life in Alaska. To re-create Alaska 50 huskies and sledges were brought from kolhoz of Chukotka (Far North). Leningrad students were recruited to play American golddiggers in mass scenes.

Variety

11/20/1974

AMERICAN STARRING IN E. GERMAN FILM

Frankfurt, NOV. 19

 

     American singer-actor Dean Reed is starring in a film to be made by DEFA, the East German government-operated studio.

     Pic is “Kid and Company,” based on the Jack London novel, with Renate Blume and Manfred in the other top roles. Film will be made on location in Hohen Tatra mountains, in Bulgaria, and a race with sled-dogs will be shot in Russia.

(The 50 huskies were brought in from Chukotka, in Okrug, a eastern federal subject of Russia.)

 

[submitted by Michael Ferguson]