A CRY OF DEATH

Una cuerda al amanecer – Spanish title
Sei una carogna… e t’ammazzo! – Italian title
Les charognards meurent à l’aube – French title
You are Carrion and Y Will Kill You – Greek title
Furia em Oregon – Portuguese title
You are a Traitor and I Will Kill You – English title
A Cry of Death – English title

A 1971 Spanish, Italian co-production [Cire Film (Barcelona), Universalia Vision (Rome)]
Producer: Elio Pannaccio, Isidro Estaba
Director: Manuel Esteba (Manuel Gallego)
Story: Manuel Esteba (Manuel Gallego)
Screenplay: Manuel Esteba (Manuel Gallego)
Cinematography: Girolamo La Rosa [Eastmancolor, widescreen]
Music: V. Kojucharov (Vasili Kojucharov)
Running time: 79 minutes

Cast:
Campanita/Little Bell'/Barrett - Pierre Brice
Campanita/'Little Bell'/Barrett - David Rocha [flashback scene]
Ted Marshall - Steven Tedd (Giuseppe Cardillo)
Sebastian - Fernando Sancho (Fernando Les)
Lola/Lucy - Marta Flores (Marta de la Paz)
Roy Caulder - Molino Rojo (Antonio Molino Rojo)
Nancy/Maria/Catherine Marshall - Mónica Randall (Aurora Sarasa)
preacher - Raúl Aparici
Pedro/Jonathan - Gaspar González
townsman - Manuel Muñiz (Murriz Brandariz)
sheriff - Miguel Muniesa
blacksmith - Moisés Rocha
Pedro henchman - Sergio Aparici
with; José Nieto, Alberto Vila, Ferrucio Viotti, Jony Fairen (Juan Farre)


A bounty hunter, dressed in black, is after a rich landowner named Barrett, who is having his neighboring homesteaders murdered, by an unseen killer, for their land. After Barrett has Sebastian's faithful mule killed in payment for a case of whiskey he drank, Sebastian teams up with Marshal Ted Mulligan. The two, one seeking vengeance the other justice until a final showdown with the mysterious killer settles the issue.

Guess Who I Am

I'm a South American actor who appeared in 20 Euro-westerns. Guess who I am.

Happy 80th Birthday Giuseppe Ruzolini

Giuseppe Ruzzolini was born on May 21, 1930 in Rome, Italy. Starting as an apprentice cameraman, his first film as cinematographer was “Maigret à Pigalle” (1966) directed by Mario Landi. His technique would soon be considered one of the most popular and respected in Italian films. He filmed a string of Paolo Pasolini films from 1967-1974 including “Oedipus Rex” (1967), “Teorama” (1968), “Porcile” and “Amore e rabbia” both in 1969 and “Il fiore delle mille e una notte” (1974). He worked with some of the greatest directors in Italian cinema including the Taviani brothers, Pontecorvo, Leone and Lizzani. He was the cinematographer on three Euro-westerns: “Duck You Sucker” (1971), “My Name is Nobody” (1972) and “The Genius” (1975) all for Sergio Leone. He was the cinematographer on Tony Anthony's 3-D film “Treasure of the four Crowns” (1983). He retired after filming “Bodyguards – Guardie del corpo” directed by Neri Parenti in 2000 and a total of 75 films. Today we celebrate Giuseppe Ruzzolini's 80th birthday.

Remembering Anthony Steel

Born Anthony Maitland Steel on May 21, 1920 in Cumberland, London, England. The son of an Indian army officer he was educated at Cambridge. He served in the Grenadier Guards during World War II and entered British cinema after the war. He became one of England's most promising leading men during the 1950s. Steel left England for Hollywood and then married Swedish bombshell Anita Ekberg [1931- ] in 1956. The marriage didn't work and the two divorced in 1959. A second fiddle to Ekberg during their marriage he couldn't capture the promise of his early career and was actually blackballed by the Rank Organization. He drifted all over Europe making films among them two German Euro-westerns, “Last of the Renegades”, and “Massacre at Marble City” both in 1964. He made over 64 films during his career but died a pauper of heart failure on March 21, 2001 in Northolt, Middlesex, England. Today we remember Anthony Steel on what would have been his 90th birthday.

Morricone, Bjork Share Sweden's Polar Music Award

Italian composer Ennio Morricone and Icelandic singer Bjork have won the 2010 Polar Music Prize, the prize committee said Monday.

They will be invited to accept the award, which includes 1 million kronor ($130,000) each in prize money, at a ceremony in Stockholm later this year.

The Polar Music Prize is Sweden's biggest music award and is typically shared by a pop artist and a classical musician. It was founded by Stig Anderson, manager of Swedish pop group ABBA, in 1989.

Prize committee Chairman Alfons Karabuda said 44-year-old Bjork personifies the border-breaking attributes sought by the committee, "bravely and without compromises."

Bjork sang in various Icelandic bands in the 1980's and rose to international fame with her solo album "Debut" in 1993. She has since released five more solo albums as well as film soundtracks and compilations. She also won the Cannes Film Festival's 2000 award for best actress for her role in Lars von Trier's "Dancer in the Dark."

"With her deeply personal music and lyrics, her precise arrangements and her unique voice, Bjork has already made an indelible mark on pop music and modern culture at large, despite her relative youth," the prize committee said in its citation.

Morricone, 71, has composed more than 400 film scores, including the iconic theme from "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" and other spaghetti westerns directed by Sergio Leone.

The prize committee said his "congenial compositions and arrangements" help lift "existence to another plain, making the mundane feel like dramatic scenes in full Cinemascope."

"He built up a brand new kind of music that set the tone for half a century of film music, but also influenced and inspired a number of musicians in the spheres of pop, rock and classical music," the committee said in its quotation.

Last year's award was shared by British musician Peter Gabriel and Venezuelan composer Jose Antonio Abreu.

CRY OF THE BLACK WOLVES

Der Schrei der schwarzen Wölfe – German title
Ulvens son - Danish title
Mustan suden huuto – Finnish title
Le hurlement des loups – French title
Il cacciatore solitario – Italian title
Terror i villmarken – Norwegian title
El aullido de los lobos – Spanish title
Vargens son – Swedish title
Kurtlar – Turkish title
Avontuur in Alaska City - ? title
Cry of the Black Wolves – English title

A 1972 German production [Lisa-Film (Munich)]
Producer: Karl Spiehs
Director: Dr. Harald Reinl (Karl Reiner)
Story: “Son of the Wolf” by Jack London (John Chaney)
Screenplay: Kurt Nachmann
Cinematography: Franz X. Lederle (Franz Xaver Lederle) [Eastmancolor]
Music: Gerhard Heinz
Running time: 89 minutes

Cast:
Bill Robin/Robinson - Ron Ely (Ronald Pierce)
Jack Harper - Raimund Harmstorf
Frona Williams - Gila von Weitershausen
Jimmy - Jean-Claude Hoffman
Akaena - Catherine Conti (Catherina Conti)
Nicholas Morse - Carl Lange
Tornado Kid - Arthur Brauss (Artur Brauss)
Mike Williams - Toni Berger
Forester - Alexander Grill
Betty Taylor - Angelica Ott
Stumpy - Hans Terofal (Hans Seitz)
Joe - Dan van Husen (Daniel van Husen)
Roy Murdock - Kurt Bülau (Kurt Bulwatsch)
Tom Lafferty - Gunter Clemens
Polly - Undine Frohlich
Sara - Karin Lorson
Sam Jenkins - Heinrich Schweiger
with; Jan Groib, Sigfrit Steiner (Siegfried Steiner), Ernst H. Hilbich (Ernst Hilbich)


In Happy Camp, Alaska 1903. The paradoxical name of the mining town where fortune hunters set out in search of gold and riches in the untamed wilderness of the North Country. It's every man for himself in this Jack London thrilling western. Bill Robin/Robinson a rugged man of the wilderness must fight for survival against nature and a ruthless bounty hunter sent to bring him in dead-or-alive for a murder he did not commit. The film is based on London's novel “Son of the Wolf”.

Spaghetti Western Locations

In “For a Few Dollars More” after the El Paso bank robbery, the gang meets up and Indo decides to hide out in Agua Caliente where they will wait for things to calm down before splitting what is inside the safe. The location for Agua Caliente is a village called Los Albaricoques north of Almeria. The village looks much like it did during the time Sergio Leone and crew were here. As you can see the old road still leads up to the village. The ugly tarp of one of the the ever-present greenhouses is seen on the right. This village was also used for the opening of “Fistful of Dollars” when Clint rides into San Miguel. You can actually stay at a hostal-restaurant called The Alba and spend a few days walking the same streets, Sergio, Van Cleef, Eastwood and Volonte walked. Give the proprietor Manuel my best wishes and thank him for helping restore many of the attractions in the village.




For a more detailed view of this site and other Spaghetti Western locations please visit my friend Yoshi “Garringo” Yasuda’s excellent website: http://garringo.cool.ne.jp/