Halloween 2024

 

Little Known Spaghetti Western Actors ~ Ben Carrà

[These daily posts will cover little known actors or people that have appeared in more recent films and TV series. Various degrees of information that I was able to find will be given and anything that you can add would be appreciated.]

Ben Carrà is/was an Italian character actor who appeared in seven films between 1970 and 1973. His only Spaghetti western appearance was as as Lawrence/Jose Tito in 1971’s “Anda muchacho, spara!” (Dead Men Ride) starring Fabio Testi.

Is Ben Carrà his real name or an Anglicized name given him by Italian producers? Since there is no biographical information available on the man we’ll never know.

CARRA, Ben (Ben Carrà) [Italian] – film actor.

Dead Men Ride – 1971 (Lawrence/Jose Tito)

New Austrian Blu-ray release “Shalako”

Shalako

(1968)

Director: Edward Dmytryk

Starring: Sean Connery, Brigitte Bardot, Stephen Boyd

Country: Austria

Label: NSM / Alive

Blu-ray

Region B/2

Resolution: 1080p

Aspect ratio: 2.35:1

Described as "uncut version", 112min

Audio: English, German (previously non-dubbed parts are English with German subtitles)

Subtitles: English, German

Extras: photo gallery; trailer

ASIN: ‎B0DFSQJ6QC

Release date: October 31, 2024

Special Birthdays

Bud Spencer – would have been 95 today but died in 2016.

Steve Emerson (actor) is 90 today.

Charles Drace (actor) is 80 today.

George Catlin (actor) is 75 today. 

RIP Ken Wood

 

Italian stuntman, film and TV actor Ken Wood died on October 30^th in Anzio, Lazio, Italy. He was 89. Born Giovanni Cianfriglia on April 5, 1935 in Anzio, he was the brother of stuntman and actor Domenico Cianfriglia (1938-2020). Giovanni started out as a stuntman during the Sword and Sandal craze and doubled for American actor Steve Reeves in many of those films. When the Pelum films declined Giovanni moved on to the Crime films and primarily Spaghetti westerns where, as Ken Wood, he would become an often seen and recognizable face both as a villain and a hero. His acrobatic stunt work made him invaluable to many action directors particularly Enzo Castellari. Cianfriglia appeared in over 125 films in different capacities and among those appeared in thirty-eight Spaghetti westerns.

The Relentless Four – 1965 (deputy)

5 Giants from Texas – 1966 (Jesus/Indios)

Ringo and His Golden Pistol – 1966 (Sebastian) [as Ken Wood]

The Tramplers – 1966 (Cordeen henchman)

Ballad of a Gunman – 1967 (gambler)

If You Want to Live... Shoot! – 1967 (Stark) [as Ken Wood]

Killer Kid – 1967 (Ramirez) [as Ken Wood]

Bury Them Deep – 1968 (Billy Gunn) [as Ken Wood]

Kill Them All and Come Back Alone – 1968 (Blade) [as Ken Wood]

No Graves on Boot Hill – 1968 (Reno) [as Ken Wood]

Three Crosses Not to Die – 1968 (Reno) [as Ken Wood]

Two Pistols and a Coward – 1968 (Ron Eloy) [as Ken Wood]

Western, Italian Style – 1968 [archive footage]

The Unholy Four – 1969 (saloon brawler)

Adiós, Sabata – 1970 (Austrian agent)

Amen – 1970 [as Ken Wood]

Durango Is Coming, Pay or Die - 1970 (stagecoach robber)

The Unholy Four – 1970

Wanted Sabata – 1970 (Mexican bounty hunter)

You're Jinxed, Friend You've Met Sacramento – 1970 (Murdock henchman)

Blindman – 1971 (Mexican soldier) [stunts]

Django... Adios! - 1971 (Spirito Santo henchman)

Drummer of Vengeance – 1971 (Blackie) [as Ken Wood]

A Man Called Django – 1971 (Blackie)

Return of Sabata – 1971 (McIntock henchman)

Bada alla tua pelle Spirito Santo! - 1972 (Garibaldino) [as Ken Wood]

The Ballad of Ben and Charlie – 1972 (casino bouncer)

The Grand Duel – 1972

Gunmen and the Holy Ghost – 1972 (Garibaldi/Il Garibaldino) [as Ken Wood]

Life Is Tough, Eh Providence? – 1972 (The Challenger) [as Ken Wood]

Man of the East – 1972 (saloon brawler)

Return of the Holy Ghost – 1972 (Garibaldi/‘Il Garibaldino’) [as Ken Wood]

Sentence of God – 1972 [as Ken Wood]

They Call Me Providence – 1972 (‘The Challenger’) [as Ken Wood]

Where the Bullets Fly – 1972 (barn brawler)

Blood River – 1973 (Indian)

Keoma – 1975 (Caldwell henchmen) [as Ken Wood]

Buddy Goes West – 1981 (Jack Bold) [stunts]

America in Rome – 1998 [himself]

Denn sie kennen kein erbarmen - Der Italowestern (TV) – 2005 [himself]

Little Known Spaghetti Western Actors ~ Ed Carpenter

[These daily posts will cover little known actors or people that have appeared in more recent films and TV series. Various degrees of information that I was able to find will be given and anything that you can add would be appreciated.]

Ed Carpenter is credited with one film appearance by the IMDb and that was as the medical officer seen in 1972’s “Nybyggarna” (The New Land).

Most likely Ed Carpenter was a local resident and amateur actor from the Cassville, Wisconsin area where part of the movie was filmed. I can find no biographical information on him.

CARPENTER, Ed [American] – film actor.

The New Land – 1972 (medical officer)

Who Are Those Gals? ~ Karin Dor

 

Kätherose Derr was born on February 22, 1938 in Wiesbaden, Nazi Germany. She was best known for starring in the James Bond movies “You Only Live Twice” (1967) and the Alfred Hitchcock movie “Topaz” (1969).

She appeared in German movies adapted from the works of Edgar Wallace (Krimis from Kriminalfilm) and Karl May Winnetou films. These two-film series were mainly directed by Harald Reinl, her first husband.

In 2008, she was in a Munich stage production, Man liebt nur dreimal ("You Only Love Thrice"). In later years, she performed mainly stage roles but still appeared in some films.

She was married three times: her last marriage was to George Robotham, an American stunt director, from 1988 until his death in 2007. The couple lived in Los Angeles and Munich. Her previous marriage was to Harald Reinl (1954–1968); the couple had a child Andreas Renell. In 1954, the year of their marriage, Dor was 16 years old, while Reinl was 46.

In July 2016, while vacationing in South Tyrol, Dor was knocked to the ground after being accidentally rammed by a woman with a stroller. The backwards fall onto concrete resulted in a gashing 4-cm head wound that had to be stitched in hospital. She lost her memory for the duration of an hour.

According to Dor, the doctors detected neither a brain concussion nor an intracranial injury. Only during rehearsals for the theatre play “Der Dressierte Mann” weeks after her fall did doctors realize her injuries were more serious than previously thought, as she began suffering from headaches and was often tired. Even months past the accident, the aftereffects were still present and Dor was not feeling up to her usual energetic self. Her attitude however remained positive and, despite her doctors advising against it, she continued working as an actress. Between October and November 2016, she appeared on stage every evening performing at the Komödie im Bayerischen Hof in Munich. By that time, she was already experiencing limited motor function in her right leg.

Suddenly, in January 2017, she relapsed. Her condition rapidly worsened in March 2017, and she was confined to a care home, where she ultimately died on November 6^th, aged 79.

DOR, Karin (Kätherose Derr) [2/22/1938, Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany - 11/6/2017, Munich, Bavaria, Germany (complications from a fall)] – theater, film, TV actress, married to director, assistant director, writer, film editor, actor Harald Reinl [1908-1986] (1954-1968) mother of actor Andreas Renell [1955-    ], married to Günther Schmucker (1972-1974), married to producer, director, writer, stuntman, actor George Robotham [1921-2007] (1988-2007).

The Treasure of the Silver Lake - 1962 (Ellen Patterson)

Last of the Renegades - 1964 (Ribanna)

The Last Tomahawk – 1964 (Cora Munroe)

The Desperado Trail – 1965

The Man With the Long Gun - 1968 (Mabel Kingsley)

Special Birthdays

Carl Lange (actor) would have been 115 today but died in 1999.

Dušan Tadić (actor) would have been 95 today but died in 2007.

RIP Frank Englehardt

 

German voice actor Frank Englehardt died in Cuba on September 13th. He was 78. Englehardt was born in Castrop-Rauxel, Munster, Germany on April 5, 1946.He was best known as the German voice of Brian on “Family Guy” until season 21. Frank was the voice of Matt Clark in the 1977 Spaghetti western “Kid Vengeance” starring Lee Van Cleef and Jim Brown.

Little Known Spaghetti Western Actors ~ Flora Caroselo

[These daily posts will cover little known actors or people that have appeared in more recent films and TV series. Various degrees of information that I was able to find will be given and anything that you can add would be appreciated.]

Italian actress Flora Caroselo was born in Antrodoco, Rieti, Italy on September 7, 1927. She appeared in around 40 films between 1956 and 1999. She also was involved in dubbing over a dozen films during the 1980s and 1990s.

Flora was married to director, screenwriter Antonio Boccacci until her death in Rome at the age of 86 on July 15, 2015.

Carosello appeared in three Euro-westerns: “Django” in 1965, “A Man Called Apocalypse Joe” in 1970 as Aunt Wila and “Eh? Who’s Afraid of Zorro!” in 1975 as Donna Florinda.

CAROSELLO, Flora (aka Flora Carosella, Carussello Flora, Elizabeth Queen) [9/7/1927, Antrodoco, Rieti, Italy - 7/7/2015, Rome, Lazio, Italy] – film, TV, voice actress, married to director, screenwriter Antonio Boccacci [1923–2020] (19??-2015).

Django - 1965

A Man Called Apocalypse Joe – 1970 (Aunt Wila)

Eh? Who’s Afraid of Zorro! – 1975 (Senora Florinda)

Voices of the Spaghetti Western – “Thunder at the Border”

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 be 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 “Thunder at the Border”

[(I) Italian, (S) Spanish, (G) German, (F) French, (E) English]

Winnetou – Pierre Brice (G) Thomas Danneberg, (S) Enric Puig

Old Firehand – Rod Cameron (G) Gerhard Geisler, (S) Sergio Capelo

Nscho-tschi – Marie Versini (G) Evelyn Gressmann, (S) Marina Vinyals

Tom – Todd Armstrong (G) Randolf Kronberg (S) César Lechiguero

Silers – Harald Leipnitz (G) Harald Leipnitz, (S) José Luis Valero

Michèle Mercier – Nadia Gray (G) Renate Küster, (S) Amparo Mayor

Gerhard Geisler  (1907 – 1977)

Gerhard Geisler was born in Cottbus, Brandenburg, Germany on October 21, in 1907. After his training at the State Drama School in Berlin, he received a theater engagement in Bochum from 1930 to 1934. During the war, he had only a few short appearances in German movies. In 1948 he was seen as an actor in the role of Willy in Heinz Hilpert's film production with Heinz Rühmann in “Der Herr vom andern Stern”. In 1966, director Hans Mehringer cast him in the crime film “Der Würger vom Tower” in the role of Dr. Livingstone.

From 1958 to 1971, Geisler also played numerous television roles. In 1962 also in the German series ‘Wer einmal aus dem Blechnapf frißt’. In addition, Geisler lent his voice as a dubbing actor to many internationally renowned acting colleagues in over 30 speaking roles over the decades. Among other things, he dubbed Anthony Quinn in a total of 14 films, including The Guns of Navarone and Lawrence of Arabia.

Geisler died in Vienna on 22 September 1977 at the age of 69.

Special Birthdays

Akim Tamiroff (actor) would have been 125 today but died in 1972.

Buff Douthitt (actor) would have been 100 today but died in 2016.

Mirella Pamphili (actress) is 85 today.

 

Little Known Spaghetti Western Actors ~ Zila Carni

[These daily posts will cover little known actors or people that have appeared in more recent films and TV series. Various degrees of information that I was able to find will be given and anything that you can add would be appreciated.]

Zila Carney is/was an Israeli actress credited with only two films at the IMDb. One is a TV film “The Story of Jacob and Joseph” as Leah and credited as Zila Karney and her only Spaghetti western “God’s Gun” in 1976 in the role of Juanita Lewis the daughter of Lewis played by Lee Van Cleef.

I can find no biographical information about her.

[These daily posts will cover little known actors or people that have appeared in more recent films and TV series. Various degrees of information that I was able to find will be given and anything that you can add would be appreciated.]

CARNI, Zila (aka Zila Karney) [Israeli] – film, TV actress.

God’s Gun – 1976 (Juanita Lewis)

New British 4K Blu-ray release of “Red Sun”

 

Red Sun

(1971)

 

Director: Terence Young

Starring: Charles Bronson, Alain Delon, Toshiro Mifune, Ursula Andress

 

Country: England

Label: StudioCanal

4K Blu-ray

Language: English

Subtitles:

Running time:116 minutes

ASIN: ‎B0DJGTFHC9

Extras: On the set of Red Sun - Extract from Pour le cinéma (Director: Pierre Mignot, 9min, black and white); "Setting Sun" - new interview with Steven Okazak on Toshiro Mifune (18min); Original Trailer; four postcards

Release Date: October 28, 2024

Spaghetti Western locations - Then & Now: “El Condor”

In 1970’s “El Condor” Patrick O’Neal and Lee Van Cleef apparently hear Santa Claus coming down the chimney.

Today the set is in terrible shape and continues to deteriorate.

 

European Western Comic Books - Buck Taylor

 

Buck Taylor

A single volume comic sbook that revisits the first story of Buck Taylor already appeared in the Invicta editions album, now written by Ornella and graphically adapted by Renzo Capredoni. In the appendix, a reprint of Jimmy Turbine. Announced, but not found, #2 “Death Challenge”.

It was published by Edizioni III Americane King in under the direction of Enwer Bongrani in 1958 and released on October 23. The comic contained 120 black and white pages with a color cover.

Title

01 (23.10.58) - "La valle dei mohicani" (The Valley of the Mohicans)

Special Birthdays

Gerald Harvey (writer) would have been 75 today but died in 1988.

Joaquin Phoenix (actor) is 50 today.

From the WAI! vault

 

Little Known Spaghetti Western Actors ~ Joseph Bradley

[These daily posts will cover little known actors or people that have appeared in more recent films and TV series. Various degrees of information that I was able to find will be given and anything that you can add would be appreciated.]

Joseph Bradley appeared in only one film, and it was his only Spaghetti western as the El Paso bartender in “Per qualche dollaro in più” (For a Few Dollars More) his identity has been much discussed and debated in various forums and is often confused with Josef Egger and also his presumed identities listed by the IMDb credit as Antonio Palombi and Ulrich Muller which all are unconfirmed.

Abel Haro Pulido posted the following: "This man was the Italian Antonio Palombi, he was a carpenter on Carlo Simi's team and a friend of Sergio Leone, he was also a waiter in “Per il gusto di uccidere” “The Taste of Killing” in 1966. Credited in the production team of other films." There is no way to confirm any of this information. A post in the Quasi dimenticati group on Facebook has named him as "Ullrich Müller". Muller is actually credited on German newspaper ad mats for the Terence Hill, Henry Fonda’s “Il mio nome è Nessuno” (My Name is Nobody). If you notice Bradley is a much bigger man than the so called Muller and Palombi and if it’s Bradley in the other films he surely aged a great deal in a year or two as the actor in “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”, “Once Upon a Time in the West” and My Name is Nobody are much smaller in stature and older looking.

My identification comes from an article where Lee Van Cleef says the bartender was Joseph Bradley who was a retired British railroad worker living in Almeria along with a colony of retired Brits. Van Cleef had befriended Bradley because he could speak English and Spanish and would accompany Lee to various restaurants and bars during the time he spent filming in Almeria, Spain. Until we can definitely confirm who portrayed the El Paso bartender I’ll stick with what Colonel Mortimer says.   

BRADLEY, Joseph [189?, England, U.K. – 19??, Spain(?)] – film actor.

For a Few Dollars More – 1965 (El Paso bartender)

Who Are Those Singers & Musicians ~ Don Murray

Born Donald Patrick Murray in Hollywood on July 31, 1929, he was raised in New York. Don attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He then made it into the cast of the original 1951 Broadway production of Tennessee Williams’ Tony Award-winning “The Rose Tattoo”. Universal offered him a contract for $150 a week, but he turned it down. “They could put you in whatever picture they wanted,” he said, and he wanted none of that, choosing to work in live TV. Murray was a conscientious objector during the Korean War, but he spent nearly three years working in German and Italian refugee camps in the Brethren Volunteer Service, a forerunner to the Peace Corps. He came back to the U.S. in 1955. When he appeared opposite Marilyn Monroe in “Bus Stop” (1956) tt was his first movie, and he was 26 at the time. Television audiences will best remember Murray as Sid Fairgate, the husband of Michele Lee’s character, on the CBS primetime soap ‘Knots Landing’. Murray appeared in one Spaghetti western 1966’s “Kid Rodelo” in the lead role and sang the song “Love is Trouble”. The co-stars were Broderick Crawford and Janet Leigh. Murray was to star in a previous western to be filmed in Spain titled "Talión", but the film was never made. Don died at his home in Goleta, California on February 2, 2024.

MURRAY, Don (Donald Patrick Murray) [7/31/1929, Hollywood, California, U.S.A. -  2/2/2024, Goleta, California, U.S.A.] – actor, singer, married to actress Hope Lange (Hope Elise Ross Lange) [1933-2003] (1956-1961) father of actor Christopher Murray [1957-    ], actress Patricia Murray [1958-    ], married to actress Bettie Johnson (Elizabeth Christina Johnson) [1936-    ] (1962-2024) father of Coleen Murray [1963-    ], composer Sean Murray [1965-    ], Mick Murray [1972-    ].

Kid Rodelo – 1965 [sings: “Love is Trouble”]

Special Birthdays

Nikolay Karachentsov (actor) would have been 80 today but died in 2018.

From the WAI! vault

 

Little Known Western Actors ~ Leonora Carney

[These daily posts will cover little known actors or people that have appeared in more recent films and TV series. Various degrees of information that I was able to find will be given and anything that you can add would be appreciated.]

Leonora Carney was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1953. She began a career as a concert pianist at the age of 10 with television appearances and numerous broadcasts on national radio, following a much-acclaimed recital in Wigmore Hall, London. She has pursued that career as a concert pianist, giving recitals throughout Ireland, Great Britain, continental Europe and the U.S.A. Her schedule includes concerts with the National Symphony Orchestra and broadcasts on both RTE and BBC Radio 3. She’s still appearing as of 2020.

As a teenager she was recruited and appeared in a bus scene which was later cut in most versions of 1971’s “Giu la testa” (Duck You Sucker).

CARNEY, Leonora [1953, Dublin, Ireland -     ] – child film actress, concert pianist, married to ?, sister of concert pianist Desmond Carney.

Duck You Sucker – 1971 (girl on bus)

Spaghetti Western Locations for “The Forgotten Pistolero”

We continue our search for locations for “The Forgotten Pistolero”. Rafael tells Sebastian how his father was killed, and we see it in a flashback. Rafael tells how his father had returned from fighting in a war in 1866 and his wife and children prepare to welcome him home at the Hacienda San Marta. As General Juan Carrasco greets his children and Maria their nanny she turns, and we see the shawl with the rose that was hanging in Sebastians cabin. He then goes and greets his wife, Anna. The scene then ends.

This scene was filmed at Talamanca de Jarma, 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/

Special Birthdays

Sidney Northcote (director) would have been 140 today but died in 1952.

Lee Thaxton (actor) is 75 today.

Spaghetti Wester Trivia – More Poster Art

In the early days the Italian artists weren’t too creative and used American paperback novel covers for inspiration on a genre they weren’t really familiar with and film stars they and the Italian cinema viewers really didn’t know. Here’s a prime example. The poster for “Vamos a matar Sartana” is a direct copy from the cover of this John Shelley paperback novel. The hat is different and the color of the clothes are the only differences.

Little Known Spaghetti Western Actors ~ Tiziano Carnevale

[These daily posts will cover little known actors or people that have appeared in more recent films and TV series. Various degrees of information that I was able to find will be given and anything that you can add would be appreciated.]

Tiziano Carnevali was born in Assisi, Umbria, Italy and worked at Legionarius Stunts SAS perfecting his skills as a professional stuntman which he has displayed so far in 30 films starting in 2018. Among those films he’s acted in six and was the set designed on two.

He was a stuntman on “Twenty Dollars” in 2015 while appearing as Travis. He then was the stunt coordinator on 2017’s “The Dutchman” while appearing as Charlie Hancks. More recently he was a screenwriter on the 2020 Spaghetti western “Never Dies”

Tiziano is the president of Old Type Productions where he also constructed the western town set.

CARNEVALE, Tiziano (aka Tiziano Carnevali) [19??, Assisi, Umbria, Italy - ] – producer, director, writer, stuntman, film, TV actor, president of Old Type Productions.

Twenty Dollars – 2015 (Travis) [stunts]

The Dutchman – 2017 (Charlie Hancks) [stunt coordinator]

Never Dies – 2020 [screenwriter]

The rescue of the most universal Cortijo in Spain begins

 

The first milestone will be the paving of a path from Los Albaricoques to Fraile and Rodalquilar

 

La Voz de Almeria

By Manuel Leon

October 21, 2024

[Presentation at the Cortijo del Fraile of the paving project for the path.]

The redemption of the most symbolic farmhouse in Spain begins. Its desired rescue begins with the paving of the road that leads to the Friar's domain, to that eighteenth-century hacienda that could have remained just that: in one more example of the typical architecture of Nijar and that, however, due to the events that occurred and the hands that recreated them, has been transfigured into a universal icon and a literary attribute of the intelligentsia and the academic world. from the University of Tokyo to the University of Yale.

Yesterday was the first milestone of everything that is to come - let's say like a first foot on the moon - since three years ago the Provincial Council paid almost two million euros for nine hectares to José Antonio Cánovas, the last private owner of the Fraile or El Hornillo, the man - who like Francisca Díaz alias Doña Pakyta - kept it when he could have put the shovel in it (it was not BIC until 2010). Perhaps this Murcian deserved recognition for it.

Yesterday, on the road that connects Los Albaricoques with Rodalquilar, in the heart of the Cabo de Gata Natural Park, the Provincial Council, the Junta de Andalucía and the City Council of Níjar, have sealed an agreement to recover and value one of the most outstanding heritage, historical and cultural assets of Almeria.

The event was attended yesterday by the president of the Provincial Council, Javier Aureliano García; the Minister of Tourism and External Andalusia, Arturo Bernal and the Mayor of Níjar, José Francisco Garrido. The three administrations have presented the start of the works for the paving and creation of a cycling route from Los Albaricoques and Rodalquilar and the Cortijo del Fraile. This project is financed through funds for the execution of the tourism sustainability plans in Andalusia 2021, within the framework of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan.

It is a project that has an investment of 1.44 million euros for the adaptation and paving of a tourist route of almost 10 kilometers of trail. The first section of action is the busiest access to the Cortijo del Fraile from Los Albaricoques, with 3.7 kilometres in length. The paving will be done with ecological concrete with pigmentation to obtain a chromaticism similar to that of the terrain, with a reddish appearance, minimizing the impact while preserving the natural landscape.

The second section goes from Los Albaricoques to the mining town of Rodalquilar, about 6 kilometers of a road that is currently in poor condition. The rehabilitation of this section will be done with granular materials from the same road. The Minister of Tourism, Arturo Bernal has highlighted the beauty and natural, scenic, tourist and cultural importance of the Cortijo del Fraile and its surroundings.

The mayor of Níjar stressed that "with this route we not only link these three enclaves; we also promote the structuring of our territory".

The president of the Provincial Council said that "today is a day of union and a sample of the work of the administrations with society, a connection that brings us all together through this route that connects the Cortijo with the rest of the park, Rodalquilar, and its mining and cinematographic past".

A hacienda full of literature

The Provincial Council acquired the Cortijo del Fraile in July 2021 from the company Agrícola Mar Menor to undertake the rehabilitation of this BIC that was built in the mid-eighteenth century. The Master Plan that will determine the roadmap that will define the recovery of its already badly damaged factory is currently being tendered. It will have mixed use between cultural, cinematographic, ethnographic and tourist and non-profit entities will be invited to participate. This farmhouse has an international dimension thanks to the work Bodas de Sangre by Federico García Lorca and Puñal de Claveles, by Carmen de Burgos. The Cortijo belonged to the Dominican Fathers, famous for its bread oven. And after the confiscation,Acosta, Lorenzo Gallardo, Vandervalle, a company owned by Juan Guerra, the French insurance company UAP, Dunia and, finally, Agrícola Mar Menor passed to the family.

50th anniversary of the premier of “Challenge to White Fang”

 

Today marks the 50^th anniversary of the premier of “Il ritorno di zanna bianca” (Challenge to White Fang) directed by Lucio Fulci and starring Franco Nero, Virna Lisi, John Steiner and Raimund Harmstorf. It tells the story of a dying old miner who wills his newly discovered gold mine to his grandson Bill Tarwater (Renato Cestiè. When Beauty Smith (John Steiner), an evil businessman, finds out about the mine he tries to claim it for himself. When Sister Evangelina (BVirna Lisi) comes up with evidence to prove Smith has committed a list of crimes, he has her mission burned down killing her in the process. Journalist Jason Scott (Franco Nero) now takes up her cause and with the help of White Fang races to the mine to stop Smith.

 

Il ritorno di zanna bianca – Italian title

Le retour de Croc Blanc – French title

Le retour de Buck le loup – French title

Die Teufelsschlucht der wilden Wölfe – German title

Wofsblut 2 – Dutch title

Wolfsblut kehrt zurück – Dutch title

Valkohampaan kosto – Finnish title

Powrót Bialego Kla – Polish title

La carrera del oro – Spanish title

Varghundens utmaning – Swedish title

White Fang to the Rescue – English title

The Return of White Fang – U.K. title

Challenge to White Fang – USA title

 

A 1974 Italian, French, West German film co-production [Oceania Produzioni

     Internazionali Cinematografiche (Rome), Les Productions Fox Europa (Paris), I.C.I.

     (Munich)]

Producer: Ermanno Donati

Director: Lucio Fulci

Story: Roberto Gianviti, Alberto Silvestri

Screenplay: Lucio Fulci, Roberto Gianviti, Alberto Silvestri

Cinematography: Silvano Ippoliti [Eastmancolor, Panavision]

Music: Carlo Rustichelli

Running time: 102 minutes

 

Cast:

Jason Scott - Franco Nero (Francesco Sparanero)

Sister Evangelina - Virna Lisi (Vivian Pieralisi)

Kurt Jansen - Raimind Harmstorf (Raimund Harmstorf)

John Tarwater - Harry Carey Jr. (Henry Carey)

Bill Tarwater - Renato Cestiè (Massimo Conti)

Beauty Smith/Charles Forth - John Steiner

Lieutenant Charles Leclerc - Renato De Carmine

Carol - Yanti Somer (Kirsti Somersalo)

Carter - Rolf Hartmann

Ted - Paolo Magalotti

Jane Leclerc - Hannelore Elsner (Hannelore Elstner)

Harvey - Werner Pochath (Werner Pocath)

Colonel - John Bartha (János Barta)

Liverpool - Donald O’Brien (Donal O’Brien)

Gambler - Ezio Marano

Gambler’s associate - Antonio Basile

Beauty Smith henchman - Sergio Smacchi

Saloon patrons - Goffredo Unger, Pietro Torrisi, Riccardo Petrazzi, Rinaldo Zamperla

Mr. Forth's secretary - Romano Targa

Photographer - Iolanda Fortini

Party guests - Margarete Horowitz, Anna Maria Perego, Richard Dunne

Townsman – Franz Colangelo (Francesco Colangelo)

With: Stanislaus Gunawan, Vittorio Fanfoni, Carla Mancini

Stunt coordinator: Goffredo Unger