THE EMIGRANTS

Utvandrarna - Swedish title
Os Emigrantes - Brazilian title
Udvandrerne - Danish title
Här har du ditt liv - Finnish title
Maastamuuttajat - Finnish title
Les emigrants - French title
Die Auswanderer - German title
Die Neubürger - German title
Emigranten - German title
Gia mia kainourgia patrida - Greek title
Kivándorlók - Hungarian title
Karl e Kristina - Italian title
Los emigrantes - Spanish title
The Emigrants - English title

A 1970 Swedish production [Svensk Filmidustri (Stockholm)]
Producer: Bengt Forslund
Director: Jan Troell
Story: “Utvandrarna” and “Invandrarna” by Vilhelm Moberg
Screenplay: Bengt Forslund, Jan Troell
Cinematography: Jan Troell [Technicolor]
Music: Erik Nordgren
Running time: 151 minutes

Cast:
Karl Oskar - Max von Sydow (Carl Von Sydow)
Kristina - Liv Ullmann
Robert Nilsson - Eddie Axberg
Nils - Sven-Olof Bern (Seven-Olof Andersson)
Marta - Aina Alfredsson
Danjel - Allan Edwall (Johan Edvall)
Ulrika - Monica Zatterlund (Eva Nilsson)
Arvid - Pierre Linstedt
Jonas Peter - Hans Alfredson
Danjel’s wife - Ulla Smidje
Elin - Eva-Lena Zetterlund
The Vicar - Gustaf Färingborg
Aron - Åke Fridell
Fina Kajsa - Agneta Prytz (Ingrid Pritz)
Anders - Halvar Björk
Verger - Arnold Alfredson
Mans Jakob - Bror Englund
Pastor Jackson - Tom C. Fouts
second mate - Peter Høimark
Captain Lorentz - Erik Johansson
Landberg - Staffan Liljander
first mate - Göran Lundin
children - Dittie Martinsson, Lasse Matinsson, Pelle Martinsson, Annika Nyhammar, Annika Nyhammar, Yvonne Oppstedt, Linn Ulmann
with: Bruno Sörwing

In the middle of the 19th century, a young couple, Kristina and Karl-Oskar, live in Smaland - a small rural community in southern Sweden. They survive on a small plot of infertile land. Times are difficult: there is bad weather, the harvests are poor and hunger prevails. Hunger forces the couple's first-born child to secretly eat food that was not ready for eating. This leads to the child's death and convinces the mother to accept the decision of the father to emigrate to the US. They are joined by another family running away from religious persecution and a man running away from a troublesome wife. The rest of the film traces their difficult journey on a rickety sailing ship that takes ten weeks to make it across the Atlantic and the inland journey to what is now Minnesota where the emigrants that survived the journey would start their new life in the New World.

YouTube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah7tQsMQC4U&feature=related

Remembering Giuseppe Colizzi

Giuseppe Colizzi was born in Rome, Italy in 1925. Colizzi began in the film industry as an assistant director with director Luigi Zampa in 1948. This lead to him becoming a production manager. Giuseppe then began writing film scripts. He then left the industry and wrote two novels. In the mid-60s he returns to films where he’s best remembered for directing four films, three of them westerns, featuring Terence Hill and Bud Spencer. Terence Hill has often remarked that Colizzi was the first director to believe Hill and Spencer could be a successful team. Peter Martell was initially offered the role given to Terence Hill but he injured his foot. In 1975 Colizzi turned to directing on a private TV station in Rome. He was working on a TV film “Switch” when he died in his sleep on August 23, 1978 in Rome at the age of 53. Today we remember Giuseppe Colizzi on what would have been his 85th birthday.

RIP Dino De Laurentis

Dino De Laurentiis, the flamboyant Italian movie producer who helped resurrect his country's film industry after World War II and for more than six decades produced films as diverse as the 1954 Federico Fellini classic “La Strada” and the 1976 remake of “King Kong,” has died. He was 91. De Laurentiis, who moved to the United States in the 1970s, died in Los Angeles, Italian media reported Thursday morning. In the 1950s, he produced two Oscar-winning best foreign films — Fellini's “La Strada” (with then-partner Carlo Ponti) and Fellini's “Nights of Cabiria” (1957).

In 1962, the prolific producer began building a sprawling studio complex on the outskirts of Rome that he called Dinocitta — Dino City. During the 1960s — he is credited with pioneering the now-common practice of financing films by pre-selling the distribution rights in foreign countries — De Laurentiis produced films such as director Richard Fleischer's “Barabbas,” starring Anthony Quinn; John Huston's star-studded “The Bible”; and Roger Vadim's “Barbarella,” starring Jane Fonda. After selling his studio and moving to the United States in the 1970s, De Laurentiis produced films such as “Serpico,” “Death Wish,” “Three Days of the Condor,” “The Serpent's Egg,” “Ragtime” and “Conan the Barbarian.” But De Laurentiis' name also became synonymous with expensive box-office failures such as “Dune,” “Tai-Pan” and “King Kong Lives.” The son of a pasta manufacturer, he was born Agostino De Laurentiis on Aug. 8, 1919, in Torre Annunziata, some 17 miles from Naples. One of seven children, he dropped out of school at 15 and traveled as a salesman for his father's pasta factory. But he wasn't enamored of the family business. He worked for a time as an extra, stagehand, electrician and director's assistant before changing his first name from Agostino to Dino and launching a production company.
 
De Laurentis produced five Euro-westerns: "Navajo Joe" (1966), "The Hills Run Red" (1966), "A Man Called Sledge" (1970), "The Deserter" (1971) and "Chino" (1973).

Veterans Day 2010

Who Are Those Guys - David Bailey

David Bailey was born on October 27, 1933 in Newark, New Jersey. He joined the United States Air Force at the age of 16, where he remained for eight years. David then worked as an electrician, ditch digger, plumber and truck driver to support his family before deciding to make acting his full-time career. Within a few years, Bailey had appeared in several movie and television roles. After the success of 1966's “7 Guns for the MacGregors” a sequel was planned by producer Dario Sabatello. The lead actor from the first film was Robert Woods, but Robert didn’t want to get tied up in a film series, plus he didn’t get along with Agata Flori who was producer Dario Sabatello’s wife and chosen to be the sequel’s lead actress again. David Bailey was offered the part of Gregor MacGregor for the sequel “Up the MacGregors” and it was his first film role. In 1973 David landed the part of Russ Matthews on “Another World” and Teddy Malcolm on “Ryan’s Hope”. Then Bailey guest-starred on numerous television shows “Dennis the Menace” as Scotty and commercials such as Mitchum deodorant. He starred in “Above The Rim” with Tupac Shakur and Duane Martin. Bailey lived in Boston and Los Angeles with his wife. David founded the Black Book Theatre Company where he wrote and directed plays. An avid swimmer he drowned in the pool of his Los Angeles home.

BAILEY, David(David M. Bailey) [10/27/1933, Newark, New Jersey, U.S.A. - 11/25/2004, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. (accidental drowning)] - director, playwright, stage, TV actor.

Up the MacGregors - 1967 (Gregor MacGregor)

EL ROJO

El Rojo - Italian title
Texas el rojo - Spanish title
Django bereidt uw vonnis - Belgium title
El Rojo - French title
El Rocho - Der Töter - German title
El Rojo - Greek title
5000 dollar för El Rojo! - Swedish title
Rojo - English title
El Rojo - English title

A 1966 Italian, Spanish co-production [Ramofilms (Rome), Petruka Films (Madrid)]
Producers: Robert Lover (Roberto Amoroso), Luis Merino
Director: Leo Coleman (Leopoldo Savona)
Story: Robert Lover (Roberto Amoroso), Bill Coleman (Leopoldo Savona), Mike Mitchell (Mario Casacci), Rate Furlan
Screenplay: Robert Lover (Roberto Amoroso), Bill Coleman (Leopoldo Savona), Mike Mitchell (Mario Casacci), Rate Furlan, Antonio Giambriccio, Roberto Gianviti, Jose-Maria Seone
Cinematography: Aldo Giordani [Eastmancolor, Ramovision]
Music: Benedetto Ghiglia
Song: “To the West” sung by Nieves Navarro (Nieves Garcia)
Running time: 85 minutes

Cast:
Donald ‘El Rojo’ Sorenson/Saroyan - Richard Harrison
Lansky/Lasky - Peter Carter (Giusva Lulli)
Ortega - Andrew Ray (Andrea Aureli)
Consuelo - Nieves Navarro (Nieves Garcia)
Flo - Annie Gorassini (Anna Gorassini)
Pamela - Rita Klein
Wallace - Ray Russel (Demenico Orobona)
Navarro - Mirko Ellis (Mirko Korcinsky)
Ramon - Raf Baldwin (Rafaelle Baldassarre)
Hank/Giosue/José Garibaldi - José Jaspe (José Rivas)
Cochise - Andrea Fantasia
judge - John Bartha (János Barta)
sheriff - Tom Felleghy (Tamás Fellegi)
Grandfather - Antonio Jimenez Escribano

Settler - Walter Maestosi
saloon patrons - Fortunato Arena, Elio Angelucci, Franco Gula (Francesco Gula)

The Sorenson family is massacred, apparently by a lone Indian. On the site of the killing, a town, Gold Hill grows up, run by a group of businessmen. Years later, El Rojo, alias the last surviving Sorenson arrives, searching for the truth about the massacre, and seeking revenge. In Gold Hill four men, Lasky, Navarro, Wallace and Ortega, are being honored by the town. They are owners of a mine, a bank and a saloon. The same Indian we see at the beginning of the film shoots an arrow at them with a note threatening their lives. Harrison becomes interested in the four when a settler is killed after accusing the four of being land grabbers. Aided by an old man who invents some strange and unique weapons, El Rojo confronts each man through a number of disguises and tricks. He calls them by name and takes out his revenge. Things become a bit complicated when El Rojo’s old girlfriend is found to have married Lasky.

Happy 80th Birthday Sergio Graziani

Sergio Graziani was born on November 10, 1930 in Udine, Italy. He’s been active as an actor and dubber since the early 1960's. He’s best remembered as the Italian voice of Donald Sutherland, Peter O’Toole and Terence Hill. His first western dubbing was as the Italian voice of Benito Stefanelli in “Fistful of Dollars” (1964). He was Terence Hills Italian voice in “God Forgives... I Don’t (1967), “Ace High” (1968), “Boot Hill” (1969), and “Trinity Sees Red” (1970). He was also the Italian voice of James Mason in “Bad’s Man River” (1971), George Hilton’s in “A Man Called Invincible” (1973), and Anthony Steffen in “Dallas” (1974). Sergio was awarded a lifetime achievement award at the Grand Prix International Dubbing convention in 2008. Today we celebrate Sergio Graziani’s 80th birthday.