Little Known Spaghetti Western actors ~ Javier Conde

[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.]

Javier is/was a Spanish supporting actor. He appeared in six films between 1966 and 1969. Among his films were two Spaghetti westerns: “Un dollaro di fuoco” (Epitaph for a Fast Gun) in 1965 billed as Javier Conn and “5 pistole de Texas” ($5.00 for Ringo) in 1965 as Bobby Kid.

I can find no biographical information about him.

CONDE, Javier (as Javier Conn) [Spanish] – film actor.

Epitaph for a Fast Gun - 1965 [as Javier Conn]

$5.00 for Ringo – 1965 (Bobby Kid)

New Italian DVD “Carambola”

 

Carambola

(1864)

 

Director: Ferdinando Baldi

Starring: Michael Coby, Paul Smith

 

Country: Italy

Label: Quadrifoglio / Serendipity

Region 2, PAL

Aspect ratio: 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen, PAL

Languages: Italian, English, German 2.0 stereo, Italian 5.1 Dolby Digital

Subtitles: Italian

Extras: Trailer

Release date: April 30, 2025

Who Are Those Guys? ~ Dieter Eppler

 

Heinz Dieter Eppler was born in Stuttgart, Germany on February 11, 1927. He was a German television actor and director of radio dramas. He became a prolific character actor, seen in many TV crime series like ‘Tatort’, ‘Derrick’ and ‘The Old Fox’. In the 1950s and 1960s, he had leading roles in several Edgar Wallace adaptations. Often portraying military types, he was noted for his starring role in “U 47 – Kapitänleutnant Prien” (1957). He also made horror films as a character of the evil vampire in the 1962 film “Slaughter of the Vampires”. He was known for his appearances in “Jonas” (1957), “The Last Winter” (1960) and “The Country Doctor”.

He only appeared in two Euro-westerns: ‘Tales of the Wild West’ (TV) in 1969 and as Sheriff Howard Pendleton in 1972’s “They Call Me Providence” with Tomas Milian.

Eppler was married to Magdalene Schnaitmann and they had five children.  He stayed in Germany and worked there and in European films until his death in Stuttgart on April 12, 2008.

EPPLER, Dieter (aka Heinz D. Eppler, Heinz Dieter Eppler, Heinzdieter Eppler) (Heinz Dieter Eppler) [2/11/1927, Stuttgart, Germany – 4/12/2008, Stuttgart, Baden Wurttemberg, Germany] – film, radio, theater, TV actor, married to Magdalene Marie Schnaitmann [1924-2015] (1947-2008) father of five children.

Tales of the Wild West (TV) – 1969

They Call Me Providence - 1972 (Sheriff Howard Pendleton)

Special Birthdays

Empedocle Buzzanca (actor) would have been 115 today but died in 1987.

Giovanni Addessi (writer) would have been 110 today but died in 1973.

Marc Richards (writer) would have been 95 today but died in 2006.

Danny Ross (actor) would have been 95 today but died in 1976.

Sergio Testori (actor) would have been 90 today but died in 2007.

Burt Young (actor) would have been 85 today but died in 2023.

Dan van Husen (actor) would have been 80 today but died in 2020.

Rad Revival House Podcast

 Tonight at 7:30 EST a special Peter Lee Lawrence episode.

Link:

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-the-rad-revival-house-121699540/

Little Known Spaghetti Western actors ~ David Breen

[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.]

Michael Ferguson came across a number of credited actors on the English language release of Sean Flynn’s 1962 Euro-western “Duel at the Rio Grande” (The Sign of Zorro). For some reason these actors don’t appear on European prints or at the IMDb.

Breen worked behind the camera as a production coordinator or an assistant to the producer in ten films while his only on-screen appearance was in his only Spaghetti western “Il segno di Zorro” (The Sign of Zorro aka Duel at the Rio Grande) in 1962.

BREEN, David [12/10/1928, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. – 7/12/1984, San Gabriel, California, U.S.A.] – producer’s assistant, production coordinator, film actor married to Corbina Marjory Loscalzo (1953-19??).

The Sign of Zorro – 1962

Django Undisputed streaming on Django Western and Full Action

Annuario del Cinema NEWS

Directed and starring Claudio Del Falco, “Django Undisputed” is streaming on Django Western and Full Action, the channels dedicated to adrenaline-pumping cinema available on Prime Video Channels, thefilmclub.it and TIMVISION.

After the action movies “Iron Fighter” and “The Martial Avenger”, the "Italian Van Damme" pays homage to E.B. Clucher (Enzo Barboni) and his two films starring Trinity/Terence Hill by directing and starring in a feature film whose goal is to bring back to the cinema the unmistakable atmosphere of spaghetti westerns, in order to combine the typical Italian tradition with a modern and engaging narrative.

“Django Undisputed” tells the story of Django, a man determined to restore order to a village in the Wild West oppressed by violence and crime. Together with his brother, Django finds himself facing the cruel Tomas in a duel to the death to save their community and protect his mother Serena, owner of a brothel, from the tyranny of the outlaws.

Del Falco himself plays Django, while the latter's brother, Tomas and Serena own the faces of Fabio Romagnolo, Italian IFBB PRO body building champion here at his film debut, international star Tomas Arana and Anna Rita Del Piano, within a rich cast including Michael Segal, Mauro Aversano, Francesca Giuliano, Ciro Buono and Clara Guggiari, with the participation of Massimiliano Buzzanca and former Miss Italy Nadia Bengala. In addition, in the role of Django's father we find Ottaviano Dell'Acqua, a historic presence of the legendary films that starred Bud Spencer and Terence Hill.

First “Dango” Western Original, therefore, “Django Undisputed” marks a further ambitious step in the filmography of Del Falco, who, always interested in bringing the genre back into the context of Italian film production, aims this time to dust off the spaghetti western, now forgotten for too long on our sets.

Trailer link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2F7x2ilSXM

Django Undisputed – International title

 

A 2024 film production [Saturnia Pictures, One Seven-Movies, Roswellfilm (Rome)]

Producers: Giuseppe Milazzo Andreani, Salvatore Alongi, Claudio Callegari

Director: Claudio Del Falco

Story: Claudio Del Falco

Screenplay: Claudio Del Falco

Cinematography: Matteo de Angelis [color]

Music: Simone Cilio

Running time: 90 minutes

 

Story: Django, a man determined to restore order to a Wild West village oppressed by violence and crime. Together with his brother, Django finds himself facing Thomas in a duel to the death to save their community and protect his mother Serena, owner of a brothel, from the tyranny of the outlaws.

 

Cast: 

Django – Claudio Del Falco

The King - Tomas Arana       

Frankie - Ottaviano Dell'Acqua

Clara - Clara Guggiari

Serena - Anna Rita Del Piano

Tomas - Michael Segál

Francy - Francesca Giuliano

Emma - Vanessa Fois

Dana - Dana Ungureanu

Mortimer: Piero Olivieri

Il Moro - Ciro Buono

The Mexican - Mauro Aversano

Cowboy’s wife - Nadia Bengal

Cowboy's daughter - Karol Battista

Japanese - Gabriele Mallimaci

Django’s brother - Fabio Romagnolo

Sheriff - Massimiliano Buzzanca

Card players - Vincenzo Ferrante, Giandomenico Morello

Old Cowboy – Ferdinando Di Virgilio

Emporium owner - Bon Rayner (Roberto Piccari)

Innkeepers - Valerio Rota Vega (Benedetto Lo Monaco), Aurora Panetta

Inn patrons - Michele Mariotti, Matteo Ostolani, Didier Methivier (Raoul Akrassay)

Bartender: Giovanni Marino

Pianist - Francesco Censi

Grinta - Giovanni Bufalini

Groom - Tony Scarf

Prostitutes - Clara Guggiari, Francesca Maria Giuliano, Vanessa Fois, Elena Daniela

     Ungureanu

Tomas’ henchmen – Franco Grossi, Pasquale Guerrisi, Vanni De Simone, Cesare

     Montebovi, Stefano Tricarico, Fabio Massimi, Simona Romani, Chiara Chiappini,

     Stefano Tricarico

Saloon girls - Camilla Pizzo, Camilla Abballa, Jeanette Aparre, Gloria Muti, Franca

     Maria Muccari

Saloon patrons - Massimo Di Marco, Alessandro Cunsolo

Bandits - Mauro Del Vecchio, Mauro Canavese

Tarantino - Andrea Saolini

Clint - Emiliano Ferrera

Bud Spencer - Fabio Celani

Stunt coordinators: Mauro Aversano, Emiliano Novelli

Stunts: Andrea Andreuzzi, Lorenzo Buran, Tiziano Carnevale, Giandomenico Morello, Michael Segál

The Black Hills

The Black Hills – International title

 

A 1976/1977 British, Spanish documentary film production [University of Bristol Drama

     Department (Britstol)]

Producer: Alan Bell, John Loveless

Director: Alex Cox (Alexander Cox)

Story: Alex Cox (Alexander Cox)

Photography: Alex Cox (Alexander Cox) [color]

Music:

Running time: 7 minutes

 

Cast:

Jo Pappworth, Wooden Man

In 1976/77 Alex Cox was a student in the Radio, Film and TV Studies course at Bristol University. During his year there, he made this film. It was shot on the Italian Western locations in Almeria and Granada - El Paso, Fort Bravo, Flagstone and CECISA - where ten years later he make “Straight to Hell”. “Black Hills” he says is not a great film, but it's interesting to see what the sets looked like in the mid-1970s, especially Flagstone - the most elaborate of Carlo Simi's Western towns - and CECISA, both of which have now vanished.

 

Film link: https://rumble.com/v3e0sgp-black-hills.html

[submitted by Michael Ferguson]

Special Birthdays

Evelyn Scott (actress) is 85 today.

Little Known Spaghetti Western actors ~ Dante Cona

[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.]

Dante Cona is/was an Italian character actor who appeared in over 30 films and television appearances from 1968 to 1985. Like so many of these actors there is little more than a filmography on them and no biographical information.

Cona appeared in only one Spaghetti western and that was in 1971’s “È tornato Sabata... hai chiuso un'altra volta” (Return of Sabata) as a gunsmith.

CONA, Dante [Italian] – film, TV actor.

Return of Sabata – 1971 (gunsmith)

New British Blu-ray release “Keoma”

 

“Keoma”

(1975)

 

Director: Enzo Castellari

Starring: Franco Nero, William Berger, Woody Strode

 

Country: UK

Discs: 1

Label: Cult Films

#CULT321

Region free

Resolution: 1080P encode from 2K restored vault materials

Aspect ratio: 2.35:1

Languages: English and Italian

Subtitles: English

Running time: 101 minutes

Extras: Interview with Director Enzo G. Castellari on the making of ‘Keoma’, interview with Editor Gianfranco Amicucci. Alex Cox (legendary cult director of 'Repo Man, Syd & Nancy' and curator of BBC's Moviedrome) presents 'Keoma'. 2nd Interview with Director Enzo G. Castellari, in a candid chat on his career. Reversible Sleeve with original poster

ASIN: ‎B0F37XF1TR

Release date: April 28, 2025

Spaghetti Western locations Then & Now – “Cry Oinon”

In 1975’s "Cipolla Colt" (Cry Onion aka Spaghetti Western) we see this roadside scene, which was filmed in Tabernas, Almeria, Spain.

Here is the same location as seen today where only the vegetation has changed.

European Western Comic Books – Carabina Slim

 

Carbine Slim

A total of 27 issues of this comic book series were published in 2 years. Non-sequential numbering. Year one #1 (21 March 21, 1969) to #19 (December 12 1969) and year two #1 (January 1970) to #8 (August 1970)

This was Onofrio Bramante's attempt to self-produce in the Italian market by translating the French edition of Carabina Slim created for Editions Aventures et Voyages.

Year I: square-backed container booklet also featuring the adventures of Rol Pam which was illustrated by Onofrio Bramante, who also wrote some humorous interludes, and illustrated columns.

Year II: large-format album, the first issues partially in color, hence the name Collana Gigantcolor Nord-Ovest, which also publishes Kwa-Sind by Onofrio Bramante. From #5 it is saddle stitched, the #7 and #8 were released as summer editions.

The G. Verri company makes the costume for the magazine's protagonist. The monthly magazine «Frontiera Nera» was announced but not found.

In the periodical Avventura Gigante (Casa Editrice Dardo) the character appears in monographic issues reprinting material already published in the booklet albums of the first series, starting from #20 (June 1972) and up to #29 (March 1976) and the end of the series. Images provided by Nestore Corti.

The comic book was published by EVA in Milan, Italy under editor Giorgio Pisanò. Each issue contained 64 black and white pages with color covers and were released monthly.

 

Titles

Season I

01 (21.03.69) - “Carabina Slim” (Rifle Slim)

02 (04.04.69) - “La città maledetta” (The Cursed City)

03 (18.04.69) - “L’affare O’Brien” (The O’Brien Affair)

04 (02.05.69) - “La valle della morte” (Death Valley)

05 (30.05.69) - “Operazione Dixy” (Operation Dixie)

06 (13.06.69) - “Chicote” (Chicote)

07 (27.06.69) - “La foresta pietrificata” (The Petrified Forest)

08 (11.07.69) - “Assedio a Rock-Town” (The Siege of Rock-Town)

09 (25.07.69) - “La tana del Diablo” (Devil’s Lair)

10 (08.08.69) - “La forca è sempre pronta” (The Gallows are Always Ready)

11 (22.08.69) - “I pirati di Michipicoten” (The Pirates of Michipicoten)

12 (05.09.69) - “Fiamme sul lago” (Flames on the Lake)

13 (19.09.69) - “Il terrore degli abissi” (Terror of the Deep)

14 (03.10.69) - “Il serpente d’acciaio” (The Steel Serpent)

15 (17.10.69) - “Prova suprema” (Supreme Trail)

16 (31.10.69) - “Kena-Beek” (Kena-Beck)

17 (14.11.69) - “Terrore a Forte Peck” (Terror at Fort Peck)

18 (28.11.69) - “Ai confini del passato” (At the Edge of the Past)

19 (12.12.69) - “La morte indiana” (The Indian Death)

 

Season II

01 (00.01.70) - “Gitanos!” (Gitanos!)

02 (00.02.70) - “Kwa-Sind, il gigante indiano” (Kwa-Sind, the Indian Giant)

03 (00.03.70) - “Garro Sagrato (l’artiglio sacro)” (Garro Sagrato (the Sacred Claw))

04 (00.04.70) - “Tragica contesa” (Tragic Contest)

05 (00.05.70) - “Chi ha ucciso Doc Burton?” (Who Killed Doc Burton)

06 (00.06.70) - “Il fuggiasco” (The Fugitive)

07 (00.07.70) - “La pietra sacra” (The Sacred Stone)

08 (00.08.70) - “Il falso traditore” (The False Traitor)

Special Birthdays

Josef Sieber (actor) would have been 125 today but died in 1962.

Kurt Müller-Wendolin (actor) would have been 100 today but died in 2015.

Gerry Crampton [stunts] would have been 95 today but died in 2009.

Richard C. Sarafian (director) would have been 95 today but died in 2013.

From the WAI! vault

 

Little Known Spaghetti Western actors ~ Luisa Compagnoni

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 Luisa Compagnoni is/was an Italian character actress. Most likely a model, she only has one film credit that I am aware of and that was for her only Spaghetti western as Nora in “Los cinco de la venganza” (5 Giants from Texas) in 1966.

I can find no biographical information on her.

COMPAGNONI, Luisa [Italian] – film actress.

5 Giants from Texas – 1966 (Nora)

New British Blu-ray “Death Rides a Horse”

 

“Death Rides a Horse”

(1967)

 

Director: Giulio Petroni

Starring: Lee Van Cleef, John Philip Law

 

Country: England

Label: Screenbound Pictures

Blu-ray

Discs: 1

Region: B

Language: English

Subtitles: English

Running time: 115 minutes

Extras: Audio commentary by filmmaker Alex Cox; trailer

ASIN: ‎B0DYVJNKTZ

Release date: April 27, 2025

Who Are Those Singers & Musicians? ~ Lynn Redgrave

 

Lynn Rachel Redgrave was born in Marylebone, London, England on March 8, 1943. She was a member of the Redgrave family of actors, Lynn trained in London before making her theatrical debut in 1962. By the mid-1960s, she had appeared in several films, including “Tom Jones” (1963) and “Georgy Girl” (1966), which won her a New York Film Critics Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Musical/Comedy, as well as earning her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.

In 1967, she made her Broadway debut and performed in several stage productions in New York while making frequent returns to London's West End. She performed with her sister Vanessa in “Three Sisters” in London, and in the title role in a television production of ‘Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?’ in 1991. She made a return to films in the late 1990s in films such as “Shine” (1996) and “Gods and Monsters” (1998), for which she received another Academy Award nomination.

Redgrave appeared in only one Spaghetti western as Mary O'Donnell in 1967’s “Long Live Your Death” with Franco Nero and Eli Wallach. She sang the title song in the alternate titled release of “Don’t Turn the Other Cheek”.

Lynn died from breast cancer on May 2, 2010, in Kent, Connecticut. She was 67.

REDGRAVE, Lynn (Lynn Rachel Redgrave) [3/8/1943, Marylebone, London, England, U.K. – 5/2/2010, Kent, Connecticut, U.S.A. (breast cancer)] – actress, singer, granddaughter of actor Roy Redgrave (George Edward Redgrave) [1873–1922], daughter of writer, actor, singer Michael Redgrave (Michael Scudamore Redgrave) [1908–1985] actress Rachel Kempson [1910–2003], sister of actor, singer Corin Redgrave (Corin William Redgrave) [1939–2010], producer, director, actress, singer Vanessa Redgrave [1937-    ], married to director, actor John Clark [1932-2023] (1967-2000) mother of Ben Clark [1968-    ], actress Kelly Clark (Kelly B. Clark) [1970-    ], camerawoman Annabel Clark (Annabel Lucy Clark) [1981-    ], aunt of producer, actress, singer Joely Richardson (Joely Kim Richardson) [1965-    ], Jemma Redgrave (Jemima Redgrave) [1965-     ], producer, director, assistant director, writer, actor Carlo Gabriel Nero (Carlo Gabriel Sparanero) [1969-    ] producer, actress, singer  Natasha Richardson (Natasha Jane Richardson) [1963-2009], writer, cinematographer, cameraman Luke Redgrave [1970-    ], awarded OBE [2002].

Long Live Your Death – 1971 [sing: “Don’t Turn the Other Cheek”]

Special Birthdays

W.R. Thompkins (actor) would have been 100 today but died in 1971.

From the WAI! vault

 

Little Known Spaghetti Western actors ~ Paquita Comes

[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.]

Spanish character actress Paquita Comes has only one film credit listed at the IMDb and that was for her only Spaghetti western appearance in an uncredited role in “El Zorro cabalga otra vez” (Behind the Mask of Zorro) in 1965.

I can find no biographical information on her.

COMES, Paquita [Spanish] – film actress.

Behind the Mask of Zorro - 1965

Wienerland

 

Wienerland – International title

 

A 2020 Austrian TV film production [Derringer Entertainment, Wurawa Originals

      (Vienna)]

Producers: Ale Elsbacher, Christian Filarowski, Florian Keschmann, Klaus Kobald,

     Thomas Puchegger, Christoph Wize, David Wurawa, Christof G. Dertschei

Directors: Stefan Polasek, Jan Woletz

Story: Stefan Polasek, Jan Woletz

Screenplay: Stefan Polasek, Jan Woletz

Cinematography: Florian N. Gintenreiter. Ulrich Neuburg [color]

Music: Horst Schnattler

Running time: 90 minutes

 

Story: a fantasy/western genre-mix exploring the boundaries of society, ethics, and perceived reality.

 

Cast:

Mina – Barbara Kaudelka

Atalja - Jeannine Mik

Snyder – Michael Pink

Kramer - David Wurawa

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/530059153

Spaghetti Western Locations for “The Forgotten Pistolero”

We continue our search for film locations for "The Forgotten Pistolero". Running away from Thomas into the countryside two of his men catch her but suddenly Sebastian arrives and shoots the rifle out of the hands of one of the men and shoots the other in the hand. He then tells Isabella to come to him. She asks who he is and her tells her a friend of Rafaels. She mounts behind him and they ride off.

This scene was filmed somewhere in the Talamanca de Jarama Spain area.

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

Konrad Petzold (director, writer, actor) would have been 95 today but died in 1999.

Maria Sebalt (actress) would have been 95 today but died in 2023.

Winfried Glatzeder (actor) is 80 today.

 

Spaghetti Western Trivia - The Magic Behind the Ecstasy of Gold

 

No one made movies like Sergio Leone. In “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”, he gave us one of the most unforgettable scenes in film history — a man running through a massive cemetery for over three minutes, searching, desperate, with the music building all around him.

Originally, that scene was only meant to last 30 seconds. But when Ennio Morricone delivered the music, it was so powerful that Leone stretched the scene to almost four minutes!

Leone once said, “Music is more expressive than dialogue,” and called Morricone his best screenwriter. That says everything.

Together, they created something truly magical.

The Ecstasy of Gold isn’t just a scene — it’s pure cinema.

RIP Axel Scholtz

 

Veteran German film, radio, TV and voice actor Axel Scholtz died on April 21^st he was 90. Born in, Schweidnitz, Lower Silesia, Germany on March 1, 1935, as a child, he took on a role in the theatre adaptation of “Emil and the Detectives” at the Munich Kammerspiele, later he played at the Volkstheater. As a twelve-year-old, he appeared in a film for the first time in 1947’s “Zwischen gestern und morgen”. After his schooling, he completed a photographer's training course and took acting lessons from Friedrich Domin and finally at the Otto-Falckenberg-Schule in Munich. This took him to the Munich cabaret Die Zwiebel and to the Stachela in Berlin. Scholtz participated in many films and television productions, and he also worked in dubbing and numerous radio plays. He worked as a voice dubber on two Euro-westerns:”Killer Adios” in 1986 he was the German voice of Fabián Conde and voiced both Jack Caffrey and Yom Connor in 1994’s “Troublemakers” with Bud Spencer and Terence Hill.

Little Known Spaghetti Western actors ~ Peter Colvey

[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.]

Peter Colvey was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1957. He was the brother of actress Catherine Colvey [1951-2011]. Peter appeared in forty-five films and television appearances. He’s probably best known for his role as Mr. Trotter in the 2000 film adaptation from the TV series “Growing Pains”.

He appeared in two Euro-westerns: “The Adventures of Smoke Bellew” in 1959 as Sergeant Consadine and “Grey Owl” in 1999 as a hotel guest

COLVEY, Peter [1957, Montreal, Quebec, Canada - 1/18/209, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada] - film, TV actor, brother of actress Catherine Colvey [1951-2011]

The Adventures of Smoke Bellew (TV) – 1959 (Sergeant Consadine)

Grey Owl – 1999 (hotel guest)

American Torso

 

Amerikai Anzik – Hungarian tite

[American Torso – English translated title]

 

A 1975 Hungarian film production [Balázs Béla Stúdió (BBS)]

Producer:

Director: Gábor Bódy

Story: Ambrose Bierce

Screenplay: Péter Tímár

Cinematography: István Lugossy, Gábor Bódy, Péter Tímár

Music: Ferenc Sebö, Ferenc Liszt

Running time: 91 minutes

 

Cast:

Fiala János - Sándor Csutoros

Vereczky Ádám - György Cserhalmi

Boldogh - András Fekete

With: Jenõ Balaskó, László Benke, Gáspár Ferdinándy, Hornyánszky Gyula, Ferenc Jánossy, Ilona Keserû, Martha Lampland, György Sándor, Dénes Ujlaky, Eva Vandor,

János Béres, Keith Craine, István Császár, Gábor Deme, László Domonkos, Felföldi László (László Felföldy), Géza Gaul, Ed Hewitt, Mari Kiss, Ágnes Kreska, László Marczi, Méhes Lóránt (Lóránt Méhes), István Oswald, Pál P. Kiss, Ede Soltész, Éva Sugár

In the final days of the American Civil War, an emigre Hungarian military officer attempts to map the situation of the enemy. Many veterans of the 1848 War of Independence in Hungary fought on the northern side. Experienced Fiala, Boldogh who struggles with homesickness and the reckless Vereczky all experience their enforced emigration in different ways and news of impending peace elicits different reactions from them all.

Filmed at the Béla Balázs Studio, Hungary. The film commemorates the Hungarian emigration that occurred during the eighteen forties and shows the different fates that befell the three different characters: the rationalist, the fatalist and the romantic.

    American writer Ambrose Bierce’s materials were used for AMERICAN TORSO and the earlier French INCIDENT AT OWL CREEK. The production also culled material from Sándor Csoóri (poem), László Árvay & Gyula Kúné & János Fiala (diaries), Karl Marx (article), László Teleki (letter) to flesh out the script.

     Director Gábor Bódy created a special editing process that he called "light-editing", making the images look like they had been torn, aged and over-exposed so that they resembled a silent film that would have been taken in the late 19th century. Bódy pushed his experimentation and use of cinematic language as far as he could to achieve this.

The film was shown at the ERA New Horizons Film Festival, on July 26, 2005, in July in Wrocław, Poland.

    Too bad they didn’t get internationally known Hungarian actors John Bartha [János Bartha] (THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE UGLY) & Tom Felleghy [Tamás Fellegi] (BRUTE AND THE BEAST) to appear.

 

[Submitted by Michael Ferguson]

Voices of the Spaghetti Western – “The Handsome, the Ugly, and the Stupid”

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 “The Handsome, the Ugly and the Stupid”

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

The Handsome – Mimmo Palmara (I) Mimmo Palmara, (S) ?

The Stupid - Franco Franchi (I) Franco Franchi, (S) Joaquin Diaz

The Ugly - Ciccio Ingrassia (I) Ciccio Ingrassia, (S) Rogelio Hernandez

 

Special Birthdays

Vasile Nitulescu (actor) would have been 100 today but died in 1991.

Paco Catala (actor) would have been 80 today but died in 2020.

Alexander Blodget (actor) would have been 85 today but died in 2007.

Marina Malfatti (actress) would have been 85 today but died in 2016.

Joe Krieg (actor) is 75 today.

Olivier Jean Marie (director, writer) would have been 65 today but died in 2021.