Henry Fonda’s hat from “Once Upon a Time in the West” up for bid.

Once Upon a Time in the West (Paramount, 1968), Henry Fonda "Frank" Flat Brim Hat. Vintage original black wool felt cowboy hat with wide flat brim, telescope crown, and black grosgrain hat band. The interior of the hat features 2-white "W.C.C." Western Costume Company stamps and a "U47" stamp. Also features a faded, handwritten "H. Fonda" bias label. Henry Fonda's performance as Frank in Once Upon a Time in the West is significant because it upended his long-established screen persona. For decades, Fonda had been Hollywood's quintessential "good man" - embodying integrity, decency, and moral authority in films like The Grapes of Wrath and 12 Angry Men. Sergio Leone deliberately cast him against type, presenting Fonda as a ruthless, cold-blooded villain who murders a child in his very first scene. Exhibits production wear and age. The interior leather hat band has deteriorated and is missing. Provenance: Acquired from Henry Fonda's storage unit. Comes with a COA from Heritage Auctions.

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Current Bid:

$5,250

w/ Buyer's Premium (BP) : $6,562.50

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Farewell to Plácido Martínez, the man who always believed in the potential of Almeria for cinema

The tourism businessman, co-founder of the company Malcamino's, dies at 66 years of age

[Plácido Martínez with filmmaker Terry Gilliam in 2014 in the Tabernas Desert.]

Almeria has lost one of the people who most believed in the potential of this province for cinema. A man who defended that the Tabernas Desert and the Cabo de Gata-Níjar Natural Park could be much more than a magnet to receive filming: he fought for the natural force of these enclaves to attract tourism and generate employment.

Plácido Martínez Salmerón, co-founder with Cristina Serena of the tourism and film company Malcamino's, died last Tuesday at the age of 66 after a life dedicated to disseminating the Almeria landscape among filmmakers, tourists, fans and workers in the industry.

Born in the Almeria neighborhood of Pescadería in 1959, the son of a family of stonemasons, as the journalist Manuel León recalled in a profile published in LA VOZ in 2007, Plácido Martínez came into contact with the seventh art in the 80s, getting close to specialists and helping in the construction of sets in productions such as 'Conan, the barbarian', 'East of the West' and 'Warriors of the Sun'.

The lack of continuity of filming at that time led him to go with a group of Almerienses to Ibiza and Benidorm to work on medieval tournaments. He also worked as a waiter and painter until he returned to his homeland when the businessman José María Rossell, with the Hoteles Playa group, recovered the old town of El Fraile, built for the filming of 'Death Had a Price', to transform it into the MiniHollywood Oasys theme park.

There he painted and labelled sets, worked as a specialist (he was one of the promoters of the Western show that is still performed there) and became manager of the town for twelve years.

Malcamino's dream

In 2003, together with Cristina Serena, he founded Malcamino's, based in Tabernas, a company dedicated to film tourism, the location and management of filming permits and horseback riding and 4x4 routes through the desert.

He also chaired Cinegenia, the Provincial Association of Production, Creative and Auxiliary Companies of the Cinematographic and Audiovisual Industry of ASEMPAL created in 2006.

In its beginnings, Malcamino's managed the municipal tourist information office of Tabernas and soon began to offer the first film and nature routes. Already at that time, before the explosion of film tourism in Almeria thanks to the success of titles such as 'Exodus: Gods and Kings' and 'Game of Thrones', Plácido Martínez and Cristina Serena offered interpretive tours of the filming locations of films such as 'Lawrence of Arabia', 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade' and 'Conan the Barbarian'.

Throughout these two decades, they have also functioned as a location service for film, television, music videos and advertising shoots: in 2014, for example, they accompanied director Terry Gilliam on a tour of the province on the occasion of his visit to receive the Almeria, Land of Cinema award at the Almeria in Short Film festival. background of FICAL.

Likewise, Malcamino's (more than a company, a vital project) has participated in the development of tourist-cinematographic guides, in the creation of thematic routes in Níjar and in the recovery of Los Albaricoques as a cinematographic enclave.

[Presentation of the ASFAAN award of the Almería Western Film Festival to Plácido Martínez and Cristina Serena for their work in the company Malcamino's.]

For his career, LA VOZ presented Malcamino's with the Filabres-Alhamilla award in the film category in 2018. A recognition that was also given to him by the Almería Western Film Festival in 2022 with the award of the Association of Audiovisual Festivals of Andalusia (ASFAAN).

"I understood that there were millions of people who loved cinema and a good part of those shootings were done here, in Tabernas: it was a duty and an obligation to highlight that. We couldn't let something so important pass us by, we got our act together, two dreamers, and we launched ourselves to develop our project that has been evolving over these two decades," said Plácido Martínez after collecting the AWFF award.

Special Birthdays

Aldo Maccione (actor) is 90 today.

Marie Devereux (actress) would have been 85 today but died in 2019.

Little Known Spaghetti Western actors ~ Adrien Delbaere

[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.]

Adrien Delbaere is a French actress whose appeared in two films so far in her career and both were recent Euro-westerns: “Fucking Dead” (TV) in 2015 as Sidney and “Feet First Town” in 2024 as a villager. 

DELBAERE, Adrien [French] – film, TV actor.

Fucking Dead (TV) – 2015 (Sidney)

Feet First Town – 2024 (villager)

New Italian western release “Whisky di Piombo a Meatfield Town”

 

Whisky di Piombo a Meatfield Town – Italian title

[Whisky & Lead at Meatfield Town – English translated title]

 

A 2025 Italian short film production [A.S.D. La Frontera Del Sogno (Rome)]

Producer:

Director: Tiziano Carnevale

Story: Tiziano Carnevale

Screenplay: Tiziano Carnevale

Cinematography: [color]

Music: Various

     Song: “My Darling Clementine” sung by Veronica Bertacchini

Running time: 19 minutes

 

Story: The Mayor of Meatfield passes an ordinance allowing drinking and shooting guns within city limits with disastrous results.

 

Cast:

Saloon owner Stella – Ombretta Fanelli

Mayor – Gerardo Rampino

Sheriff – Cesare Montebovi

Deputy Cliff – Vanni De Simoni

Capo – Pasquale Guerrisi

Luke – Luca Murachelli

Frank – Fabio Monosi

Gus – Giuseppe Levato

Lori – Laura Pomilio

Clay – Riccardo Cavazzini

Colt – Roberto Cavazzini

Judge Barnaby – Massimo Costantini

Logan - Benedetto Lo Monaco

Barman – Edoardo De Simoni

Silver Moon – Melany Numa Giorgi

Rose – Veronica Bertacchini

Roxanne – Sofia Scagnoli

Emily – Alice Scagnoli

Marie – Roberta Orani

Juan – Andrea Paollantoni

Hal – Daiele Rorro

Joaquin – Antonio Sapsiano

With: Eliseo Incardona, Francesca Cataldo, Roberto Mantua, Caterina De Bono, Luciano Sorrenti, Davide Startari

 

This is basically a promo and advertisement for the Italian western town set where they offer certain days during the year that you can come and take part in the making of short films and fulfill your desire to become an outlaw, gambler, gunfighter etc. in the days of the Wild West.

Who Are Those Guys? ~ Mario Feliciani

 

Mario Feliciani was born in Milan, Lombardy, Italy on March 12, 1918. After completing his classical education Feliciani attended the Accademia dei filodrammatici obtaining his diploma. He made his stage debut in 1941, with the theatrical company "Palcoscenico". Later he was part of various theater companies, obtaining his first personal successes in 1946, with the drama “La luna è tramontata”.

From 1947 to 1952 he was a member of the Piccolo Teatro's stage company directed by Giorgio Strehler. He had also a very long and important collaboration on stage with Vittorio Gassman, also performing tours abroad with him. In the 1970s he came back to Piccolo Teatro for two important works, “Santa Giovanna dei macelli” (1970–71) and “Le case del vedovo” (1975–76).

Feliciani was also very active in films, on television and as a voice actor, on the radio and in the dubbing of Italian films.

Mario was married to the actress Giuliana Pogliani and after obtaining an annulment Feliciani married actress Vittoria Martello. He was the father of at least one child as he’s the grandfather of actress Melina Martello.

Mario appeared in only three Spaghetti westerns: “L'ombra di Zorro” (The Shadow of Zorro) in 1962 as McDonald), “Il segno del coyote” (The Sign of the Coyote) in 1963 as Governor Parker and in “Uccideva a freddo” (The Cold Killer) in 1966 as Salazar Mendoza. Feliciani voiced and dubbed into Italian at least two dozen Spaghetti westerns that I know of. but probably more.

He died at the age of 90 in Barcelona, Spain on July 11, 2008.

FELICIANI, Mario (aka Marco Feliciani) [3/12/1918, Milan, Lombardy, Italy – 7/11/2008, Barcelona, Cataluña, Spain] – film, radio, TV, voice actor, married to actress Giuliana Pogliani (19??-19??), married to actress Vittoria Martello [1923-2016] (19??-2008) father of ?, grandfather of actress Melina Martello (Amelia Angela Maria Martello) [1941-    ].

Shadow of Zorro – 1962 (McDonald) [as Marco Feliciani]

The Sign of the Coyote - 1963 (Governor Parker)

A Fistful of Knuckles – 1965 [Italian voice of José Riesgo]

In a Colt’s Shadow – 1965 [Italian voice of Javier de Rivera]

Legacy of the Incas – 1965 [Italian voice of Carlo Tamberlani]

The Brute and the Beast - 1966 [Italian voice of Giuseppe Addobbati]

Django – 1966 [Italian voice of José Bódalo]

Dollars for a Fast Gun – 1966 [Italian voice of Jesús Puente]

Fort Yuma Gold – 1966 [Italian voice of Andrea Bosic]

Sugar Colt – 1966 [Italian voice of George Rigaud]

Texas, Adios – 1966 [Italian voice of Livio Lorenzon]

The Cold Killer – 1966 (Salazar Mendoza)

Abraham Lincoln - 1966 (TV) (Edwin McMasters Stanton)

Death at Owell Rock – 1967 [Italian voice of unknown actor]

Gentleman Killer – 1967 [Italian voice of Ángel Lombarte]

Hate for Hate – 1967 [Italian voice of unknown actor]

Halleluja for Django – 1967 [Italian voice of Luciano Catenacci]

Little Rita of the West – 1967 [Italian voice of Gordon Mitchell]

Long Day of Violence – 1967 [Italian voice of Andrea Bosic]

$10,000 Blood Money – 1967 [Italian voice of Herman Reynoso]

If You Want to Live… Shoot! – 1968 [Italian voice of Tom Felleghy]

The Longest Hunt – 1968 [Italian voice of Folco Lulli]

The Moment to Kill – 1968 [Italian voice of Renato Romano]

Two Guns and a Coward – 1968 [Italian voice of Tom Felleghy]

Matalo - 1970 [Italian voice of Miguel Del Castillo]

The Unholy Four – 1970 [Italian voice of Giuseppe Lauricella]

Vendetta at Dawn – 1971 [Italian voice of Manfred Freyberger]

A Bounty Hunter in Trinity – 1972 [Italian voice of unknown actor]

Special Birthdays

Ernst Hasselbach (writer) would have been 120 today but died in 1959. 

Michael Delano (actor) would have been 85 today but died in 2025.