Spaghetti Western Locations

 

Continuing our search for locations for “Death Rides a Horse”. After leaving Bill in the desert Ryan continues on to Holly Spring where he finds Burt Cavanaugh. Now the owner of a saloon who offers Ryan money for setting him up and spending 15 years in prison.

 
The location of Holly Spring is Elios Studios outside of Rome and a much used film set for many westerns including Lee Van Cleef in “Sabata”.

For a more detailed view of this site and other Spaghetti Western locations please visit my friend Captain Douglas’ excellent website: http://www.western-locations-spain.co          
and Yoshi Yasuda’s location site: http://y-yasuda.net/film-location.htm

Happy 75th Birthday Vicky Lagos

Aurelia Goyanes Muñoz aka Vicky Lagos was born on June 23, 1938 in Madrid, Spain. She is the Granddaughter of actor Alfonso Muñoz [1889-1957] and daughter of actress Mimi Muñoz [1914-1987] and Italian actor and director Vittorio De Sica [1901-1974]. ], sister of actresses Mara Goyanes [1942-2006], Conchita Goyanes [1946-    ], María José Goyanes [1948-    ]. Vicky began her artistic career in the world of theater, acting as a second vedette for the Society of Celia Gámez.

 
Lagos’ success in “Te espero en el Eslava” allows you to launch her film career with “Muchachas de azul”. Her career in films, although intense at first, does not extend beyond 1966 and subsequent interventions have been very sporadic. She appeared in her only Euro-western “$5.00 for Ringo” in 1965 playing the role of Sarah.
 
From the mid-sixties, she concentrates in the theater and formed her own company with her husband, actor Ismael Merlo, with whom she married in 1973, highlighting her success with her work in “El Grito”.
 
In 1998 Vicky returns to television to play Begoña in the TV series ‘El Súper, historias de todos los días’ and in 2007 she appears on the TV show ‘Como el perro y el gato’, with Arturo Fernandez.

SCALPS

Scalps! – Italian title

Sie kämpft wie ein Mann – German title
Es geht um deinen Skalp Amigo – German title
Venganza India – Spanish title
¡Scalps! Venganza india – Spanish title
Päänahat – Finnish title
Scalps – Greek title
Yarin, a Índia Vingadora – Portuguese title
Scalps – English title
 
A 1986 Italian, Spanish co-production [Beatrice Film (Rome), Multivideo (Madrid)]
Producer: Sergio Cortona, José M. Cunillés (José María Cunillés), Isabel Mula
Director: Werner Knox (Bruno Mattei)
Story: Richard Harrison, Italo Gasparini
Screenplay: Roberto Di Girolamo, Bruno Mattei, José M. Cunillés (José María Cunillés)
Cinematography: Julio Burgos (Julio Diaz), Luigi Ciccarese [Telecolor, widescreen]
Music: Luigi Ceccarelli
Running time: 95 minutes
 
Cast:
Matt – Vass Karys (Vassili Karis)
Yari – Karen Wood (Mapi Galán)
Texas woman – Beny Cardoso (Beni Cardosa)
Colonel Connor – Albert Farley (Alberto Farnese)
Red Eagle – Charlie Bravo (Ramon Bravo)
Indian – Pietro Ceccarelli
With: E. Linder (Emilio Linder), Ignacio M. Carreño (Ignacio Lopez), Francisco Gomez, José Canalejas

During the Civil War the commander of a Texas fort refuses to surrender to the Northerners, and tries to buy the local Indian chief's daughter. The sage man refuses, and the Southerners massacre the tribe and abduct the young squaw anyway. The noble squaw manages to escape, and hides out with a rough rancher, who dislikes Indians, but hates the Southerners more. The odd couple joins forces, and tactics, to exert ultimate vengeance on the men at the fort.
 
YouTube film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI6Juqkc3ks

Remembering Giuseppe Moccia

Giuseppe Moccia was born on June 22, 1933 in Viterbo, Italy and was an Italian screenwriter and film director. He wrote screenplays for 96 films between 1958 and 2001. He also directed 21 films between 1964 and 1997. His 1984 film “Il ragazzo di campagna” was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival.

 
Using the alias Pipolo he co-wrote three Euro-westerns: “Bullets Don’t Argue” (1964), “They Call Me Providence” (1972) and “Another Try, Eh Providence” (1973).
 
Moccia died in Rome on August 20, 2006.
 
Today we remember Giuseppe Moccia, alias Pipolo, on what would have been his 80^th birthday.

Happy 85th Birthday Ralph Waite

Ralph Waite was born in White Plains, New York on. June 22, 1928. He was the oldest of five children and the son of Esther (née Mitchell) and Ralph H. Waite, a construction engineer. Before becoming an actor, Waite, served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1946 to 1948, graduated from Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, and briefly was a social worker. He earned a master's degree from Yale University Divinity School and was a Presbyterian minister and religious editor at Harper & Row in New York City before deciding on a career in acting.

 
He is a former member of the Peninsula Players summer theater program during the 1963 season.
 
After fifty years being away from organized religion, Waite returned in 2010 and became an active member of Spirit of the Desert Presbyterian Fellowship in Palm Desert, California.[3]
 
Waite ran unsuccessfully for Congress in California as a Democrat three times: in 1990 he challenged veteran GOP incumbent Al McCandless in the Riverside County-based 37th district, losing by five percentage points. In 1998 he ran in the special election for the then-Palm Springs-based 44th district left vacant by the death of incumbent Sonny Bono. He was defeated in that election by Mary Bono, Sonny's widow, and lost to her again that November.
 
Ralph has appeared in over 85 film and TV appearances since 1954 including two Euro-westerns: “Lawman” (1971) and “Chato’s Land” (1972).
 
Today we celebrate Ralph Waite’s 85^th birthday.

Guess Who I Am

I’m a German actress born in East Berlin in 1961.
 
I’ve appeared in over 65 films and TV appearances.
 
I made only one Euro-western starring Terence Hill.
 
Guess who I am.

No one guessed Anne Kasprik as this week's photo.

First Day of Summer 2013