New Animated Short Film

Rob 'n Ron – International title

 
A 2013 Danish production [Tumblehead Animation, Anis, Den Westdanske Filmpulje (Viborg)]
Producer: Magnus Igland Møller, Peter Smith
Director: Magnus Igland Møller, Peter Smith
Story: Mads Juul
Screenplay: Mads Juul
Animation: Christian Bøving-Andersen, Eva Lee Wallberg, Lars Ellingbo, Peter Smith
Music: Thomas Richard Christensen, Peter Smith, Jody Ann Ghani, Sia Sondergaard
Running time: 4 minutes
 
Story: two out-law brothers discover that, life is what happens to you, just as you're busy doing other things.

Cast:
Animated figures
 
YouTube complete film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTmFqdR8b18

Who Are Those Guys? - Edy Biagetti

 

Edgardo ‘Edy’ Biagetti is an Italian stage and film actor. His main activity in the world of cinema is that of a character and supporting actor. One of his most interesting works was his participation in the film “Tototruffa '62” (1961) by Camillo Mastrocinque. In 1962, he also worked with Luciano Salce in the making of the film “La voglia” where he played the part of the physician. Biagetti appeared in three Euro-westerns and his last film appearance was in 1984’s “Coarse Salt”. In all Edy has appeared in over 30 film and TV appearances.

BIAGETTI, Edy (aka Edoardo Biagetti Eddy Viagetti) (Edgardo Biagetti) [Italian] – stage actor.
Bullets and the Flesh – 1964 (Indian)
I Came, I Saw, I Shot – 1968 [as Edi Biagetti]
The White the Yellow, and the Black - 1972

THE SILENT STRANGER

Lo straniero di silenzio – Italian title
The Silent Stranger – U.S.A. title
Hiljainen muukalainen – Finnish title
Le cavalier et le samourai – French title
Der Schrecken von Kung Fu – German title
Der Fremde und der Samurai – German title
O cowboy kai o samurai – Greek title
Horseman and Samurai – English title
Samurai on a Horse – English title
The Stranger Takes All – English title
The Stranger III – English title
The Stranger in Japan – English title
 
A 1968 Italian, U.S.A., Japanese co-production [Primex Italiana (Rome), ABKCO Industries, Inc (New York City), Reverse (Tokyo)
Producers: Allen Klein, Tony Anthony (Roger Petitto), Roberto Infascelli
Director: Vance Lewis (Luigi Vanzi)
Story: Tony Anthony (Roger Petitto)
Screenplay: Vincenzo Cerami, Giancarlo Ferrando, Lloyd Battista, Tony Anthony (Roger Petitto)
Cinematography: Mario Capriotti [Metrocolor]
Music: Stelvio Cipriani
Running time: 92 minutes
 
Cast:
‘The Stranger’ – Tony Anthony (Roger Petitto)
‘The American’ – Lloyd Battista
Matori – Kin Omae
Gunman – William Conroy
White-Eye – Raf Baldassarre (Raffaelle Baldassarre)
Princess – Rita Maura
With: Satô (Kyôichi Satô), Kanji Ohara, Yoshio Nukano

The film opens with ‘The Stranger’ traversing the Klondike goldfields, but the action is soon transferred to the interiors of a miner’s shack. The Stranger obtains a mysterious scroll with the promise of payment if the scroll is delivered to a certain Matori in Japan. The Stranger then is seen arriving in Japan. The Stranger slowly explores the unknown territory, of the narrow streets and nooks of a Japanese village. He  encounters some problems such as unfriendly samurais, a tong war, and ‘The American’ who owns and operates a machine gun. The Stranger is pushed into a deluge of events and uncovers reasons of ever present hatred and violence. He tries to exploit the situation and soon finds out it´s a cut-throat game, especially when it comes down to the family matters of the various Japanese clans. Eventually all ‘The Stranger’ wants to do is deliver the scroll collect his payment and leave.

 

YouTube trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMZi7l_Rgpk

Remembering Maria Perschy

The gorgeous brunette Herta-Maria Perschy was born on September 23, 1938, in Eisenstadt, Burgenland, Austria. Maria moved to Vienna at age 17 to study acting at the prestigious Max Reinhardt Seminar. After finishing her education in Vienna, Perschy moved to Germany for further training and began her career acting in German comedies in the mid-1950s. She went on to act in an eclectic array of movies in such genres as drama, horror, Western and action/adventure, made in Europe and the U.S.A.. Maria was usually cast in sexpot roles in her English-language films. She was nominated for the Golden Laurel Award for Top Female New Face in 1964. In 1971 she suffered a burn injury while filming a movie in Spain and underwent several operations before resuming her career. In 1977 she moved to Los Angeles and was married to writer John Melson [1930-1983] who committed suicide in 1983. In 1985 she moved back to her native Austria and continued to act in both plays and TV series.

 
Maria Perschy died from cancer at age 66 on December 3, 2004; she was married twice and was survived by a daughter.
 
Maria appeared in three Euro-westerns: “Bandits of the Rio Grande” (1965), “The Tall Women” (1966) and “Seven for Pancho Villa” (1967).
 
Today we remember Maria Perschy on what would have been her 75^th birthday.

Remembering Ernst Kalinke

Ernst W. Kalinke was born on September 23, 1918 in Berlin, Germany. He was trained in film composition and began in 1934 as a camera assistant. Kalinke became a cinematographer after the Second World War.

 
In the 1960s Kalinke was the first choice for the cinematographer of the Karl May and Edgar Wallace movies. The first of the Karl May movies “The Treasure of Silver” he captured on celluloid as well as Winnetou I, II, III. The first Edgar Wallace film, “Der Frosch mit der Maske” goes on his resume as well as the most successful productions “Der unheimliche Mönch” and “Die blaue Hand”.
 
In later years Kalinke photographed very different projects behind the camera, including Ludwig Ganghofer films, and the ambitious works “Anita Drögemöller und die Ruhe” and “Der Ruhr und Der Bockerer”. Several movies such as “Lederhosenfilme” and used the pseudonym Rainer Ernst for his only directorial effort “Die liebestollen Lederhosen” in 1982. In his last years he was limited to additional films as “Schtonk!” by Helmut Dietl. Kalinke died in Munich, Germany on January 14, 1992.
 
Today we remember one of the great cinematographers of the Euro-westerns: Enrst W. Kalinke on what would have been his 95^th birthday.

RIP Luciano Vincenzoni

One of the great Italian screenwriters, Luciano Vincenzoni died in Rome today September 22 at the age of 87. Born in Treviso in 1926, he worked with Pietro Germi, for whom he wrote “Il Ferroviere”, “Seduced and Abandoned” and “The Bees”; for Dino De Laurentiis “La grande Guerra”, “Il gobo”, “I due nemici”, for Sergio Leone “For a Few Dollars More”, “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” and “A Fistful of Dynamite”, and for Giuseppe Tornatore “Malena”. Vincenzoni was held in high esteem in Hollywood, and was a friend of Billy Wilder. He wrote screenplays more than 60 films including 6 Euro-westerns.

First Day of Autumn 2013