RIP Mario Morra

 

Italian film editor, director and screenwriter Mario Morra died on October 11^th in Castelnuovo di Porto, Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was 89. Morra was born in Rome in 1935 and his editing of “Cinema Paradiso”, the film by Giuseppe Tornatore, was a winner of the Oscar for best foreign film in 1989, stands out, also that of “The Battle of Algiers” by Gillo Pontecorvo in 1966. Morra was film editor on eight Spaghetti westerns: “7 Guns for the MacGregors” (1966); “The Long Days of Vengeance” (1967); “Sundance Cassidy and Butch the Kid” (1969); “A Man Called Amen” (1972); “Deaf Smith & Johnny Ears” (1973); “Zorro” (1975); “Apache Woman” (1976) and “Mexico in Flames (1982).