10 Miles to Bisbee
10
Miles to Bisbee – International title
A
2014 Spanish short film production [ESCAC Films (Madrid)]
Producers:
Sergi Casamitjana, Anna Salgado
Director:
Oriol Rigata
Story:
Pol Cortecans, Oriol Rigata
Scrennplay:
Pol Cortecans, Oriol Rigata
Cinematography:
Oriol Barcelona (Uri Barcelona) [color]
Music:
Javier Gimeno (Javier Bayon)
Running
time: 13 minutes
Cast:
Dom
- Nikola Stojanovic
Sergio
Juárez - Ricardo Mestres
Bob
- Bruno Sevilla
Katrina Ranieri (Caterina Ranieri) she was born on August 31, 1925, in Follonica, Grosseto, Italy she was an actress, songwriter and singer. She was married to an aviation officer named Eusepio Sternini (1944-1964) and the mother of Ernesto Sternini. She then was married to composer, conductor, songwriter, actor Riz Ortolani (Riziero Ortolani) [1926–2014] from 1964-2014. She was the mother of production manager Rizia Ortolani born in 1966. Katrina died in Rome on September 2, 2018, at the age of 93. She sang the main theme song “Johnny West” in 1965’s “Left-Handed Johnny West” starring Dick Palmer and “How Much You Miss Me” in the 1967 Spaghetti western “Beyond the Law” starring Lee Van Cleef and Antonio Sabato
RANIERI, Katrina (aka Benjamin, Mae Kroville, Rina
Ranieri, Katyna Ranieri) (Caterina Ranieri) [8/31/1925, Follonica, Grosseto,
Italy – 9/2/2018, Rome, Lazio, Italy] – actress, singer, songwriter, married to
aviation officer Eusepio Sternini (1944-1964) mother of Ernesto Sternini,
married to composer, conductor, songwriter, actor Riz Ortolani (Riziero
Ortolani) [1926–2014] (1964-2014) mother of production manager Rizia Ortolani
[1966- ].
Johnny West – 1965 [sings “Johnny West”]
Beyond the Law – 1967 [sings “How Much You Miss Me” as
Katyna Ranieri]
Ramón Torrado (director, writer) would have been 120 today but died in 1990.
Armando Acosta (actor) would have been 100 today
but died in 1976.
Gianni Rizzo (actor) would have been 100 today but
died in 1992.
Giovanni Cianfriglia (actor) would have been 90
today but died in 2024.
Bruno Zambrini (writer, composer) is 90 today.
Gianfranco Barra (actor) would have been 85 today but died in 2025.
Dominique Darel (actress) would have been 75 today but died in 1978.
I discovered this amazing 30-second Canada Dry Ginger Ale commercial from 1977. What a cast! Aldo Ray, Broderick Crawford, and Jack Palance! I don’t remember it, so it might have aired only in the U.S. The exteriors of the first two scenes look like they were shot in California.
Broderick had just hosted ‘Saturday Night Live’ earlier
that same year. While Oscar winners
Broderick Crawford and especially Jack Palance made several spaghetti westerns,
even Golden Globe-nominated Aldo Ray made at least one macaroni war movie:
“Suicide Commando” (1968).
At first, I thought Jack was imitating Dr. Fu Manchu (over a decade later, Harry Alan Towers announced Jack for that role in a project that was unfortunately unrealized). Yet, on second viewing, I realized that he was reprising his 1954 role as Attila the Hun from “Sign of the Pagan!” I’d really like to see that Douglas Sirk picture, which was apparently Universal-International’s first film in CinemaScope (in the unusual 2:55 aspect ratio).
You Tube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fQhvtiqL0c
Espulgas City posted that Spanish actor Juan Fairen Ferre, known in the wrestling and film worlds as Johnny el Corso, passed away on March 31st. Originally a wrestler, like many other wrestlers who made it into films, he was appreciated in the cinema for obvious reasons. He arrived in the mid-sixties and participated in about twenty westerns. As a stuntman and supporting actor, his imposing physique led him to fight hand-to-hand with Giuliano Gemma in "The Long Days of Revenge."
Juan Fairen’s westerns – actor:
Long Days of Revenge – 1966 (brawler)
Pistol for a Hundred Coffins – 1968 (Corbett henchman)
Saguaro – 1968 (brawler)
Tierra Brava - 1969 (Rojas’ bandit)
Blazing Guns – 1971 (Coby 'The Bull')
The Boldest Job in the West – 1971 (blacksmith)
A Cry of Death - 1971 (Johnny) [as Jony Fairen]
4 Candles for My Colt – 1971 (Oswald henchman) [as Johnny
‘El Corso’]
Let's Go and Kill Sartana - 1971 (Carmoni brother)
Requiem for a Bounty Hunter – 1971 (Kelly)
Dallas – 1972 [as Johnny Fairen]
The Federal Man – 1972 (Pedro) [as Jony Fairen]
God in Heaven... Arizona on Earth – 1972 (Styles’
henchman) [as Johnny Fairen]
Now They Call Him Sacramento - 1972 (Tony) [as Johnny
Fairen]
Watch Out Gringo! Sabata Will Return - 1972 (Morgan
henchman) [as Juan Fairen Farre]
Demasiados muertos para Tex – 1973 (Carmoni brother) [as
Juan Fayren]
You Are a Traitor an4 d I'll Kill You! - 1974
[These daily posts will cover little known actors or people that have appeared in more recent films and TV series. Various degrees of information that I was able to find will be given and anything that you can add would be appreciated.]
Meg Clancy appeared in some nineteen films and TV series between 1971 and 2011 but I can find no biographical information on her.
Her only Euro-western appearance was in “Potato Fritz” (Montana Trap) in 1975 in an uncredited role.
CLANCY, Meg – film, TV actress.
Montana Trap – 1975
As we know most of the Euro-westerns were co-productions from Italy, Spain, Germany and France which incorporated British and American actors to gain a worldwide audience. The films were shot silent and then dubbed into the various languages where they were sold for distribution. That means Italian, Spanish, German, French and English voice actors were hired to dub the films. Even actors from the countries where the film was to be shown were often dubbed by voice actors for various reasons such as the actors were already busy making another film, they wanted to be paid additional salaries for dubbing their voices, the actor’s voice didn’t fit the character they were playing, accidents to the actors and in some cases even death before the film could be dubbed.
I’ll list a Euro-western and the (I) Italian, (S)
Spanish, (G) German and (F) French, (E) English voices that I can find and once
in a while a bio on a specific voice actor as in Europe these actors are as
well-known as the actors they voiced.
Today we’ll cover “A Stranger in Town”
[(I) Italian, (S) Spanish, (G) German, (F) French, (E) English]
The Stranger – Tony Anthony (I) Cesare Barbetti, (S) Juan Vicente, (G) Klaus Kindler
Aguilar – Frank Wolff (I) Renato Turi, (S) Jose Antonio Alaya, (G) Arnold Marquis
Corvo – Raf Baldassarre (I) Massimo Foschi, (S) Eduardo Diez, (G) Rainer Brandt
Maria 'Maruka' Pilar – Gia Sandri (I) Lydia Simoneschi, (S) Montse Galve, (G) Gisela Reißmann
Marinero – Aldo Berti (I) Manlio De Angelis, (S) Alvaro Gonzalez Toledo, (G) Lutz Moik
Captain George Stafford – Lars Bloch (I) Luciano
De Ambrosis, (S) Enrique Gracia, (G) Hans Wiegner
Lydia Simoneschi (1908 – 1981)
Lydia Simoneschi was born in Rome on April 4, 1908. She was the daughter of Carlo Simoneschi, had been a famous actor and director of Italian silent cinema. Still very young she decided to be an actress, making her debut in Camillo Pilotto's theater company and acting in various shows around Italy and Europe; In 1932 she made her debut as both a voice actress and a film actress, but her inconspicuous physical appearance did not favor her in the latter sector: she therefore had a modest career in the cinema, acting in only six films between 1932 and 1959 and always confined to small supporting roles, but her persuasive and sophisticated vocal qualities opened the way for her to become a successful voice actress.
She married a South Tyrolean officer of the Royal Navy, Franz Lehmann, from whom she had a son Giorgio: however, she was widowed in 1942: immediately after the loss of her husband she abandoned the theatrical scene, devoting herself exclusively to the much more remunerative work of dubbing actress. In the last years of activity she also worked as a dubbing director. In 1949 her second son, Gianni, was born from the union with her brother-in-law Luigi Lehmann.
Her great versatility as a voice actress is highlighted, for example, in Pietro Germi's film “Un maledetto imbroglio” (1959), in which she dubs both a young Eleonora Rossi Drago, co-star of the film, and the elderly Nanda De Santis. Lydia also dubbed several characters in animated cinema (especially in Disney productions), most of the time playing good characters, such as fairies, but she was also a Magician in “The Sword in the Stone” (1962).
From the second half of the sixties she thinned out her dubbing activity and if before she had regularly dubbed famous actresses, most of the time much younger than her and in leading roles, from that moment on she was almost always hired to dub middle-aged actresses or older than her, often semi-unknown and in secondary parts, if not even extremely marginal: for example, she gave the voice to Muriel Landers in the part of Mrs. Blossom, who utters a single short sentence within the 1967 film “The Fabulous Dr. Dolittle”.
This downgrading to voice actress of elderly or secondary characters is evident in the film “Uncle Tom's Tales”: if in 1950 Lydia had given the voice to the protagonist Ruth Warrick, in the 1973 redubbing it was instead the voice of the grandmother played by Lucile Watson. The two most obvious exceptions are undoubtedly the Russian Princess for a “Night” (1968) and the Italian “La bella Antonia”, first monica and then dimonia (1972) in which Lydia Simoneschi lends her voice respectively to Vera Titova and Luciana Turina, 40 and 38 years younger than her. In all she dubbed over 5,000 films.
Lydia Simoneschi died in Rome on September 5, 1981, at
the age of 73.
