Happy 80th Birthday Alexander Allerson

Alexander Allerson was born on May 19, 1930 in Ostroda, Poland. His first appearance was on the TV series “Die Firma Hesselbach” (1961) followed by his first film “Barras heute” (1963) with Karl-Otto Alberty. He would go on to appear in over 80 film and TV appearances. His last being in the 1997 TV film “Sexy Lissy” wirh Liane Forestieri. Allerson appeared in two Euro-westerns “Vengeance” with Richard Harrison in 1967 and “My Name is Nobody” in 1972 with Terence Hill and Henry Fonda. He would also appear in the 1977 TV film “The Lost Gold of the Incas” as Ben Collins. Allerson was also a stage actor and with his deep smokey voice he was perfect as a voice dubber. He's retierd and living in Munich, Germany Today we celebrate Alexander Allerson's 80th birthday.

THE CRAZY BUNCH

Di Tressette ce n’è uno, tutti gli altri son nessuno – Italian title
Continuavano a chiamarlo tressette… bussava solo a batoni – Italian title
Dicky Luft Em Sacramento – Brazilian title
Vestes skore kugler – Danish title
Villi Joukko – Finnish title
Dick Lufte in Sacramento – German title
Der Dicke, das Schlitzohr und drei Halleluja – German title
Galningarna – Swedish title
The Crazy Bunch – English title

A 1974 Italian production [Dania Film (Rome)]
Producers: Luciano Martino, Mino Loy
Director: Anthony Ascott (Giuliano Carnimeo)
Story: Tito Carpi
Screenplay: Tito Carpi
Cinematography: Federico Zanni [Eastmancolor, Techniscope]
Music: Alessandro Alessandroni
Running time: 95 minutes

Cast:
Tresette/Tricky Dicky - George Hilton (Jorge Lara)
Bambi/ Paco - Cris Huerta (Crisanto Brieva)
Poison/Veleno/Twinkle Toes - Tony Norton (Antonio Monselesan)
Letto - Memmo Carotenuto
Stryker - Nello Pazzafini (Giovanni Pazzafini)
Frisco Joe/Tutti Frutti - Riccardo Garrone
bank director - Renato Baldini
Drakeman - Dante Maggio
Slim Proportions/Frank Faina/Frank the High-Handed Fairy - Enzo Maggio (Vincenzo Maggio)
asylum director - Umberto D’Orsi
with; Gino Pagnani (Luigi Fusconi), Ettore Arena, Dante Cleri, Pietro Ceccarelli, Pietro Torrsi, Aldo Cecconi, Freddy Unger (Goffredo Unger), Oscar Giustini, Ottorino Poletini, Sergio Smacchi, Fortunato Arena, Lino Coletta (Pasquale Coletta), Ennio Colaianni, Nicola Pistoia, Verano Ginesi (Voriano Ginesi)


Tressette is out to recover $100,000 in gold stolen from Frisco Joe on a wagon train to Yuma. The money has been taken by Frank Faina and the inept Poison. Faina puts the money in a bank safety deposit box and and hides himself and the key in an insane asylum. Tressette must get his hands on the key but he and his partner Bambi have a few tricks up there sleeve, such as a gun that fires when he whistles, a birthday cake stuffed with dynamite and best of all a huge club. With all this on their side you just know they will succeed in the end.



trailer link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN5ZvwFZXNY&feature=related

Cinema Retro Special Dollars Trilogy

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Full coverage of 'A Fistful of Dollars', 'For a Few Dollars More' and 'the Good, the Bad and the Ugly' - and why these films remain timeless cinematic classics.
80 full pages (16 pages more than the standard Cinema Retro issue)
Packed with hundreds of rare production stills, collectibles and international movie poster art culled from archives from around the world.
Many photos never before published - including rare behind the scenes production stills from people who acted as extras in 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly'
Special foreword by Leone biographer Sir Christopher Frayling
The legendary film locations - then and now
Coverage of the rare, deleted sequences
Cast and crew biographies

Who Are Those Guys? - Simon Arriaga

Simón Arriago is another commonly seen face during the Spaghetti western era. Other than that I can find no biographical information on this Spanish character actor. His first documented film appearance was as a bandit in “Torrejón City” (1962). According to the IMDb he made 46 film and TV appearances with his last performance in an episode of the TV series “Curro Jiménez” (1976). Specializing in playing Mexican bandits Arriaga appeared in such classic Euro-westerns as “The Shadow of Zorro” (1962), “Gunfighters of Casa Grande” (1963), “Bullets Don't Argue” and “Minnesota Clay” both 1964, “Django” (1965), “The Hellbenders” and “Navajo Joe” both 1966, “A Train for Durango” (1967), “Cemetery Without Crosses”, “A Long Ride from Hell” and “White Comanche” all in 1968, “Companeros!” and “Cut-Throats Nine”, “El Condor” in 1970 and “Sonny and Jed” (1972). In all I have him appearing in 27 Euro-westerns over a ten year period from 1962 until 1972. Simon Arriaga died in a motorcylce accident in May of 1976.


ARRIAGA, Simón (aka 'Garibaldi', Simón Arriago, Simón Arriago 'Garibaldi' [193?, Spain - 5/?/1976, Madrid, Madrid, Spain (motorcycle accident)] – TV actor.
Shadow of Zorro – 1962 (Dan's henchman)
Torrejon City – 1962 (bandit)
Billy the Kid – 1963
Gunfighters of Casa Grande – 1963 (Carvajal)
The Implacable Three – 1963
The Sign of the Coyote – 1963 (Lenny henchman)
Bullets Don’t Argue – 1964 (Santero henchman)
Minnesota Clay – 1964 (Ortiz henchman)
Django – 1965 (Miguel)
Rebels in Canada – 1965 (British trapper)
Hellbenders – 1966 (Mexican bandit)
Navajo Joe – 1966 (Monkey)
Savage Gringo – 1966 (Tedder)
A Few Bullets More – 1967 (Mexican)
A Man, a Colt – 1967 (Pedro’s henchman)
Rattler Kid – 1967 (Jim)
A Train for Durango – 1967 (Lobo henchman)
Cemetery Without Crosses - 1968
A Hole in the Forehead - 1968 (Monguja henchman)
A Long Ride from Hell – 1968
The Mercenary - 1968 (Simón)
White Comanche – 1968
Companeros! – 1970 (Mongo henchman)
Cut-Throats Nine – 1970 (Joe Ferrell)
El Condor – 1970 (Mexican soldier)
Sabata the Killer – 1970 (Garfield henchman)
Raise Your Hands, Dead Man, You're Under Arrest - 1971 (Grayson henchman)
What Am I Doing in the Middle of a Revolution? – 1971
Sonny & Jed – 1972 (Somillo)

THE CRAZY ADVENTURES OF LEN AND COBY

Carambola filotto…tutti in buca – Italian title
Su nombre es Fantasma Santo – Argentinean title
Vier vuisten op een schietend scheurijzer – Dutch title
Lännen voimakaksikko – Finnish title
Mon nom est Trinita – French title
Vier Fäuste und ein heißer Ofen – German title
Oloi tous itan iroes tou Trinita – Greek title
Los llamaban los hermanos de Trinidad – Spanish title
Slå'n på käften – Swedish title
Trinity and Carambola – English title
Carambola’s Philosophy… All in the Pocket – U.K. title
Carambola’s Philosophy: In the Right Pocket – English title
The Crazy Adventures of Len and Coby – U.S.A. title

A 1974 Italian production [BRC, Aetos (Rome)]
Producer: Armando Todaro
Director: Ferdinando Baldi
Story: Nico Ducci, Mino Roli
Screenplay: Ferdinando Baldi, Nico Ducci, Mino Roli (Emminio Pontiroli)
Cinematography: Aiace Parolin [Technicolor, Cinemascope]
Music: Bixio, Frizzi, Tempera (Franco Bixio, Fabio Frizzi, Vincenzo Tempera)
Songs: “Coby and Len”, “Sky’s Motor Bike” sung by Dream Bags (Franco Bixio, Fabio
Frizzi, Vincenzo Tempera)
Running time: 100 minutes

Cast:
Coby/Toby - Michael Coby (Antonio Cantafora)
Clem/Len Butch - Paul Smith (Anan Edel)
Jim Ballermann/El Supremo - Glauco Onorato
sheriff - Pino Ferrara (Giuseppe Ferrara)
colonel - Piero Lulli (Giusva Lulli)
Miss Peabody - Gabriela Andreini (Gabriella Baistrocchi)
Gonzales - Ray O’Connor (Renato Capitani)
Jones - Enzo Monteduro (Vincenzo Monteduro)
Ward - Emilio Messina
deputy sheriff - Benjamin Levy
saloon owner - Rod Licari (Rodolfo Licari)
Ward henchman - Gianlorenzo Bernini
pool player - Giovanni Pazzafini
photographer - Osiride Pevarello
man holding ladder - Marcello Verziera
racketeers - Bruno Arié, Lorenzo Fineschi, Roberto Messina
bandits - Franco Moruzzi, Augsto Funari, Renzo Pevarello Gilberto Galimberti, Vincenzo Maggio, Sergio Testori, Aldo Dell'Acqua, Sergio Mioni
soldier - Omero Capanna


During the last days of the Civil War motorcycles are introduced as fighting machines. Two drifters, Len and Coby, on the run and being pursued by a sheriff, steal an army motorcycle and a side car equipped with a machine gun. This contraption is also desired by criminals Ward and El Supremo. The Army recovers the motorcycle and imprisons Coby. Len disguises himself as an army officer and helps Coby escape and they steal the motorcycle once again. The duo is pursued by the army along with a sheriff, Ward, El Supremo and a crazy spinster named Miss Peabody. This 'Trinity' rip-off stars look-a-likes Michael Coby (Antonio Cantafora) and Paul Smith.

Remembering Henry Fonda

Henry Jaynes Fonda was born on May 16, 1905 in Grand Island, Nebraska. His father was a printer and Henry worked for him during his youth and dreamed of becoming a journalist. He attended the University of Minnesota's school of Journalism but did not graduate. He left school and took a job at the Retail Credit Co. At 20 he started acting at the Omaha Community Playhouse on the recommendation of his mother's friend Dodie Brando, Marlon's mother. He overcame his shyness and opened up through the characters he played on stage. He then traveled East and to Cape Cod and joined the University Players where he met his first wife Margaret Sullivan and lifelong friend James Stewart. Fonda divorced Sullivan and went to New York City and Broadway. He was later joined by Stewart. He was offered a film role in Hollywood's “The Farmer Take's a Wife” (1935). His career took-off after his appearance in “The Trail of the Lonesome Pine” (1936). This was followed by “Jezebel” (1938) with Bette Davis. He married Frances Ford Seymour in 1937 and a daughter Jane was born in 1937. 1940 brought “The Grapes of Wrath” and an Academy Award nomination for best actor. Son Peter was born also born that year. Henry served in the Navy during World War II. After the war he appeared in “My Darling Clementine” (1946) and “Fort Apache” (1948). He returned to Broadway appearing in “Mr. Roberts” along with a rookie actor named Lee Van Cleef. Fonda brought the play to film in 1955. His career continued to prosper and he turned down Sergio Leone's offer to play the lead in “Fistful of Dollars” and “For a Few Dollars More”. Sergio was finally able to acquire his talents when he appeared against type as the villain Frank in “Once Upon a Time in the West” (1968) and again as an aging gunman in “My Name is Nobody” (1972). He reached the pinnacle of his career by winning an Academy Award for best actor in 1981's “On Golden Pond” with Katharine Hepburn and his daughter Jane He died shortly afterward on August 12, 1982 from heart failure. Today we celebrate what would have been Henry Fonda's 105th birthday.

Happy 85th Birthday Eugenio Martin

Eugenio Martin Márquez was born on May 15, 1925 in Granada, Spain. He studied law at the University of Granada and management at QFII and made several short films. He then worked as an assistant director for such directors as Nathan Juran, Nicholas Ray and Guy Hamilton. During the Spaghetti western era he directed four of the genre films: “The Ugly Ones” with Tomas Milian , also the screenplay (1966), “Duel in the Eclipse” with Lang Jeffries (1967), “Pancho Villa” with Telly Savalas (1971) and “Bad Man's River”, also the screenplay with Lee Van Cleef (1972). He then founded Vega Films in 1972. Eugenio was sometimes credited as Gene Martin. Eugenio's last film was 1996's “La sal de la vida”. His biography “Eugenio Martin un autor para todos los generos” by Carlos Aguilar and Anita Haas was released in 2008. Today we celebrate Eugenio Martin's 85th bithday.