“Ein Tag zum Kämpfen”
(Custer of the West)
(1967)
Director: Robert Siodmak
Starring: Robert Shaw, Mary Ure, Ty Hardin, Jeffrey
Hunter
Country: Germany
Discs: 1
Label: Western Classic Movies / WME Home Entertainment /
White Pearl Classics
Aspect ratio: 16:9 - 2.20:1
Languages: DTS HD 2.0 Mono German, English
Running time: 135 minutes
Details: cover and description say new HD scan
ASIN: B0FNN9T1VM
Available: September 29, 2025
Here we see a scene from Carig Hill’s “A Taste for Killing” in 1966. Here Lanky Fellow takes a rifle shot at the escaping bank robbers. This scene was shot in the Carlo Simi designed and built El Paso town site.
This location is now called Mini Hollywood/Oasys and is a western theme park and zoo located in Tabernas, Almeria, Spain.
Cisco Kid
The Mexican vigilante, inspired by O'Henry's story "The
Caballero's Way," is the protagonist of films (1929's "The Old
Arizona," with Warner Baxter) and a TV series. The first comic book
version was by John Giunta, who drew three comic books for the American
publisher Bailey (1944). This was followed by the Italian Armando Monasterolo,
who published in L’Albo della domenica (Taurinia, 1946) and Viaggi e avventure (Taurinia,
1948). From 1950 to 1958, Dell Comics created a series of 41 comic books
written by Rod Reed and drawn by Robert Jenney and Alberto Giolitti. On January
15, 1951, the syndicated version of King Features Syndicate appeared with the
daily comic strip written by Rod Reed and drawn by José Luis Salinas, which
ended on August 10, 1968. This version appeared in Albo Traguardo
(Adriana, 1953), Albo Furore (Aurelia, 1953), Celebri eroi
dell’avventura and Assi dell’udacia (Gioggi, 1955), Avventure
Americane (Avventure Americane, 1956), Il vascello (La Freccia,
1958) and Il mago (Mondadori, 1972). Since 1982, the Voltolina Brothers’
Club Nostalgia has published the complete edition in the Collana argento
issues.
Roy Bjørnstad (actor) would have been 100 today but died in 2005.
Cesare Barbetti [voice actor] would have been 95
today but died in 2006.
Mylène Demongeot (actress) would have been 90 today
but died in 2022.
Tom Deininger [voice actor] would have been 75
today but died in 2022.
[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.]
Silvy De Blasch is/was an actress with one film credit and that was for her only Spaghetti western “Tara Poki” in 1971 as Pedro Pilas’ wife.
I can find no biographical information on her.
De BLASCH, Silvy – film actress.
Tara Poki – 1971 (Pedro Pilas' wife)
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 “Two Crosses at Danger Pass”
[(I) Italian, (S) Spanish, (G) German, (F) French, (E) English]
Alex Mitchell – Peter Martell (I) Cesare Barbetti, (S) José Guardiola
Judy Mitchell – Mara Cruz (I) Melina Martello, (S) Mara Cruz
Mark – Luis Gaspar (I) Vittorio Stagni, (S) Luis Gaspar
Charlie Moran – Anthony Freeman (I) Massimo Turci, (S) Francsico Valladares
Powell – Miguel S. del Castillo (I) Bruno Persa, (S) Benjamín Domingo
Gloria Moran - Dyanik Zurakowska (I) Serena
Verdirosi, (S) María Luisa Rubio
Vittorio Stagni (1937 - )
Vittorio Stagni was born Vittorio Cazzulli in Milan, Lombardy, Italy on December 17, 1937. He is the son of the actor and theater administrator Ferruccio "Vittorino" Stagni, he studied acting with Pietro Sharoff and Lee Strasberg and took mime courses with Jacques Lecoq and Giancarlo Cobelli, as well as training as a clown and acrobat with the Circus Orfei.
Stagni made his debut, still a child, both as an actor and as a voice actor and worked in the theater with various companies, being directed among others by Luchino Visconti, who launched him into the world of theater when Stagni was just 7 years old; performances directed by Aldo Trionfo, Virginio Puecher, Franco Enriquez, Orazio Costa, Vittorio Gassman, Gigi Proietti, Giancarlo Sbragia and Giorgio Albertazzi, as well as Sharoff and Cobelli themselves, followed. As a voice actor he participated in the Italian editions of numerous Disney classics and later became the recurring Italian voice of the actor Rick Moranis; he also voiced Warwick Davis, in the role of Filius Flitwick, in the Harry Potter film saga and in the animated series “The Fairly Odd Parents”. He gave his voice to several characters, including one of the antagonists, Professor Denzel Crocker, as well as directing the dubbing. He has also voiced actresses, such as Anne Ramsey in “The Goonies” and Linda Hunt in “The Year of Living Dangerously”, as well as Italian actor Alvaro Vitali in many of his roles in the seventies; in one of these films, “La compagna di banco”, he himself acted alongside Vitali. In 2001 he was also the protagonist of the film “The House of Chicken” by Pietro Sussi.
In addition to his career as an actor and voice actor, Stagni also works as a musician and composer: after singing, while still a child, at the wedding of Tyrone Power and Linda Christian, he wrote and often directed or performed the incidental music of shows in which he often also takes part as an actor, as well as soundtracks for film and television products and songs intended for the record market.
Stagni is the husband of the voice actress Lorenza Biella
[1945- ], with whom he has a daughter Ilaria Stagni [1967- ], also a voice
actress. He is the grandfather of the voice actor and singer-songwriter Jacopo
Castagna [1993- ], son of Ilaria, and Alessandro Sussi, born from his
daughter's second marriage, and a voice actor at the beginning.
