Sunday, October 5, 2025

Spaghetti Western Locations for “I Want Him Dead”.

We continue our search for film locations for “I Want Him Dead”. Looking for Jack Blood the murderer of his sister Clayton approaches the hacienda of Mallek where he’s been told that Blood is employed. Snooping around the perimeter he sees the initials A.M. painted on a corral gate and confirms he’s found the right place. He jumps into the corral with several horses and begins to look around. Suddenly one of Mallek’s hands, named Rory also jumps into the corral and attacks Clayton. A fierce fight breaks out between the two men. Mallek’s henchman brings out a pair of brass knuckles and goes after Clayton. They role under the horses’ hooves and throw punches at each other until Clayton finally gets the upper hand and knocks Rory out. Just then a woman comes on to the scene calling out Rory’s name telling him it’s time to eat. She finds Rory unconscious lying on the ground when she goes to see what happens when Clayton approaches. They look at each other and then the woman runs away but is stopped by Clayton. He forces her to the ground behind the corral wall and covers her mouth. Mallek and Allan walk by unaware. Clayton tells the woman he won’t hurt her. She leads Clayton into the kitchen and closes and locks the door behind them.

This scene was filmed at Cortijo El Romeral in San Jose Spain.


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/


Special Birthdays

Marriott Edgar (writer) would have been 145 today but died in 1951.









Ignacio Iquino (director, writer) would have been 115 today but died in 1994.









Arlene Sanders (actress) would have been 90 today but died in 2020.



Saturday, October 4, 2025

From the WAI! vault

 




Little Known Western actors ~ Francesco De Caro

[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.]

Francesco De Caro is/was an Italian child actor. As far as I can determine he had only one credited film role and that was also his only Spaghetti western as the bartender in 1975’s “L’Ostaggio” (Young Guns Go West).

I can find no biographical information on him.

De CARO, Francesco [Italian] – child film actor.

Young Guns Go West – 1975 (bartender)

New German book Release Gesichter der Karl-May-Filme

 








Gesichter der Karl-May-Filme

(Faces of the Karl May Films)

Author Reiner Boller

 

Country: Germany

Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand

Language: German

Pages: 598

ISBN-13: 9783695177509

Available: October 2, 2025

 

The Karl May films from post-war German cinema enjoy cult status today and have a firm place in German film and television history. The colorful adventures were created as international co-productions, led the audience out into the wide world and, in addition to the all-conquering main protagonists Lex Barker/Pierre Brice, came up with other well-known actors from many countries.

"Faces of the Karl May Films" is dedicated to the most important actors of the Karl May film adaptations from the first sound film (1936) to the most recent television production (2016). In addition, there is an overview of the productions and the cast of the characters.

Who Are Those Singers & Musicians? ~ Michele Seffer

 

Italian guitarist/bassist/vocalist Michele Seffer was born on April 17, 1950, in Bari, Italy. He is mostly defined by those who knew him in his best period as a "musical genius", he was able to sing with a falsetto not common to many at the time. He was a member of the Italian folk prog band Ẽra Di Acquario. Seffer later went on to replace bassist Bob Callero in the supergroup Il Volo. In the following years he became bio-pranotherapist..

Michele Seffer briefly played with Il Volo after their second album and is credited as composer and arranger on some 1970's singles by Alcatraz, Hansel & Gretel, I Teppisti dei Sogni and others, but it's unclear whether he was in these bands also as a musician or not. His presence in the group Babilonia (or Babylonia, as in one of their singles) is certain.

He was also known for his exotic guitar collection of over forty instruments.

Sadly, he died on July 3, 2006, from a stroke in Rome, Italy.

SEFFER, Michele [4/17/1950, Bari, Italy – 7/3/2006, Rome, Lazio, Italy (stroke)] – composer, musician [guitar, bass], singer, member of Italian bands ‘Ẽra Di Acquario’, ‘Il Volo’, and ‘Babilonia’.

4 of the Apocalypse – 1974 [bass]

Special Birthdays

Horst Janson (actor) would have been 90 today but died in 2025.