.Westerns...All'Italiana!

Sunday, August 2, 2015

The Mexican Revolution (TV)

Mexikaniche Revolution - German title

Die mexikanische Revolution - Rebell ohne Waffe (Part I) - German title

Die mexikanische Revolution - Machtkampf ohne Gnade (Part II) - German title

Mexican Revolution - English title

A 1968 West German television production [Windrose-Filmproduktion, Zweites Deutsches

Fernsehen]

Producers: J.J. Frank, Peter von Zahn

Director: Jürgen Goslar

Story: Michael Mansfield (Eckart Heinze-Mansfeld)

Teleplay: Michael Mansfield (Eckart Heinze-Mansfeld)

Photography: ? [black & white]

Music: ?

Running time: 149 minutes

Cast:

Francisco Madero - Konrad Georg

Zapata - Erik Schumann

Villa - Horst Niendorf

Gonzales - Claus Biederstaedt

Diaz - Ernst Fritz Fürbringer

Obregon - Jürgen Goslar

Limantour - Franz Schafheitlin

Huerta - Heinz Klevenow (Heinz Klevenow, Jr.)

Flores - Albert Bessler

Herrera - Wolfgang Schwarz

Gustavo Madero - Jan Hendriks

Navarro - Martin Hirthe

Fierro - Wolfgang Völz

Pino - Harry Engel

Andres - Günter Glaser

Carranza - P. Walter Jacob (Paul Walter Jacob)

Wilson - Gert Frickhöffer (Gerd Frickhöffer)

Sterling - Wolfgang Spier

Sanchez - Herbert Knippenberg

Mexico in 1910, resembles a powder keg. Immeasurable is the misery of the rural population. Based on the 330 large families in the country, for thirty years ruled by the aged President Porfirio Diaz. Francisco Madero, himself a member of a millionaire family, wants to enforce that the liberal constitution per se of the country finally becomes a reality. He wants at any price to shed blood and initiates the bloodiest revolution of the century. Pancho Villa joins with his bands with the liberal Madero. Even Emiliano Zapata, the Indian leader of the farm workers movement, joints with his followers to the group. At the end of many hard clashes Madero is declared the winner in Mexico City.

This made for television mini-series was shown in three parts on German TV in August of 1968.

Birthdays Then and Now

Robert Basicilice (actor) 1882 – 10/16/1929

Alexander Golling (actor) would have been 110, he died in 1989.

Giorgio Bixio (actor) 1912 – 9/25/1984

Carlo Savina (composer) 1919 – 6/23/2002

José Ángel Espinosa (aka Ferusquilla) (actor) 1919 -

Amidou (actor) would have been 80 today, he died in 2013.

Fabio Testi (actor) 1941 -

Antonio Monselesan (aka Tony Norton) (actor) 1941 - 2/25/2015

Saturday, August 1, 2015

Spaghetti Western Locations

We continue our search for locations for “The Gatling Gun”. After explaining his mission to Doc Curtis, Captain Tanner rides out to the abandoned and boarded up Gatlin house. He manages to gain access to the place and looks around in the dark. Finding the hidden passage that leaves to the basement where the machine gun was kept he finds it gone but before he can do anything else two armed men arrive. One crawls inside through a window and when he follows Chris’s tracks to the basement sees a figure in the dark and opens fire. It’s a only Tanner’s jacket and hat made to look like him. Tanner shoots back through one of the holes in the board used to exhibit the Gatlin Gun’s power. The gunman falls dead and Chris leaves through the window where he is shot at by the second gunman. Tanner falls and plays dead while the gunman mounts and rides off.

The location of the Gatlin house is La Pedriza (Manzaneras El Real). The house used is the one used as the ‘Widow’s Ranch’ seen in “The Big Gundown’ and several other Euro-westerns.

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