Who Are Those Guys? - Dan Barry

Joaquin Gómez Sáinz was born in San Bartolome de Soba, Cantabria, Spain in 1940. He was an award winning weightlifter and wrestler and won several gold medals at the Cantabrian Games and the Greco-Roman wrestling championship in Madrid. He ran a gym in Santander and published a magazine called "Deporte y Salud" (Sport and Health) until he turned to earning a living in the Spanish film industry. While working with the military in the Canary Islands he was hired by German director Rolf Olsen to appear in two Tarzan films "Tarzán en la gruta del diablo" (Tarzan in the Cave of the Devil) and "Tarzán en la jungla maldita" (The Man in the Jungle). He also appeared for Olsen as a deputy sheriff in "The Last Ride to Santa Cruz" (1963). With this experience he became a stuntman and character actor in several of the productions filmed in Spain such as "The Battle of the Bulge", "Doctor Zhivago" (both 1965) "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum"(1966) "Camelot" (1967) and "Cervantes" (1968). In the ‘70s he worked as a stuntman and character actor with Paul Naschy and Jesus Franco. In 1983 he starred in "Tunka el guerrero". Dan appeared as an actor in a handful of Euro-westerns late in the genre’s run including "Comin’ at Ya! And "Al oeste de Rio Grande" in the 1980s. Dan would go on to work in several TV series in Portugal, Argentina and Spain. Today Barry works as a screenwriter and film distributor.

BARRY, Dan (aka Joaquin Gómez Sáiz) (Joaquin Gómez Sáinz) [1940, San Bartolome de Soba, Cantabria, Spain - ] - weight lifter, wrestler, director, screenwriter, TV actor, stuntman.The Last Ride to Santa Cruz - 1963 (deputy sheriff)
Cavalry Charge - 1964
Custer of the West - 1967
Comin’ at Ya! - 1980
Al oeste de Río Grande - 1983 (Apache)

Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine

Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine - International title

A 2005 Austrian production
Producer: Peter Tscherkassky
Director: Peter Tscherkassky
Story: Peter Tscherkassky
Screenplay: Peter Tscherkassky
Cinematography: Peter Tscherkassky [black & white]
Music: Dick Schaefer
Running time: 17 minutes

Cast: Clint Eastwood (Clinton Eastwood, Jr.), Lee Van Cleef (Leroy Van Cleef, Jr.), Eli Wallach,

Antonio Molino Rojo, José Terrón (José Peñaranda), Frank Brana (Francisco Pérez), Al Mulock (Alfred Rogers), Saturno Cerra (Saturno Pendás), Aldo Sambrell (Alfredo Brell), José Terron (José Peñaranda)

"The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" is retold through intense, widescreen 35mm warping and warbling techniques. It will change your ideas about the expressive potential of optical printing and sound remixing.

YouTube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oe6efq_0BE

Remembering León Klimovsky

Born León Klimovsky Dulfano on October 16, 1906 in Buenos Aires, Argentina he studied and trained to be a dentist. His real love was films and was a pioneer in Argentinian film starting a film club in 1929 and helping finance the first movie theater to show art films. He became a screenwriter and an assistant director on 1944's "Se abre el abismo" and filmed his first movie, an adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s "The Player" (1947). Klimovsky then moved and settled in Spain in the early 1950s where he became a producer, production manager, assistant director, and actor as well as director and screenwriter. In the 1950s-1970s he became involved in making Spaghetti westerns and exploitation and horror films. Starting with "Torrejón City" in 1952 Klimovsky is credited with twelve Euro-westerns but many of his credits were strictly for tax credits using his name as director while someone else either directed the film or a great portion of them without receiving co-director credit. His last credited Euro-western was 1971's "Reverend Colt". Klimovsky sometimes used the pseudonym Henry Mankiewicz. León died in Madrid as a result of heart failure on April 8, 1996. Today we remember León Klimovsky on what would have been his 105^th birthday.

Spaghetti Western Locations

Continuing with locations for "Duck You Sucker". After Sean is stopped by Juan and is found to be carrying a plethora various sizes of dynamite and nitroglycerine in his duster, one of Juan’s relatives exclaims that it is no big deal that they should steal the dynamite and that he know’s how to use it. He goes to give a demonstration of his expert use of explosives and blows him self to bits. Sean exclaims, "Short fuse." This location is also in the present location of the previous shots on the road to Rodalquilar and can be located by the rock outcropping at the side of the road.

For a more detailed view of this site and other Spaghetti Western locations please visit my friend Yoshi ‘Garringo’ Yasuda’s excellent website: http://y-yasuda.net/

Guess Who I Am

I’m a French actor born in 1946 in Audincourt, France. Guess who I am.

I appeared in only one Euro-western in 1973. Guess who I am.

Chris Casey correctly identified this week's photo as that of Daniel Beretta from "Dust in the Sun"

"Django Unchained" update

Horror maestro Tom Savini has some incredible accolades on his CV such as being responsible for the awesome affects on the Friday the 13th movies and George A. Romero’s zombie films but very soon he can add ‘starring in a Quentin Tarantino movie’ to his resume. Sure, he has starred in the Tarantino penned From Dusk Till Dawn where he played ‘Sex Machine’ and has worked with Robert Rodriguez a number of other times on Machete and Planet Terror but this will be his first time working with Tarantino behind the camera.

Conventry Telegraph report’s that Savini will play Elvis Brittle in "Django Unchained", Tarantino’s black slavery spaghetti western epic that shoots soon. Savini will appear alongside M.C. Gainey as two of the three redneck outlaws the Brittle brothers who originally sell off Django and his wife Broomhilda as slaves.

Tarantino still needs to cast the other brother and actually most glaringly still needs to cast Broomhilda but despite it being a significant part in a Tarantino spectacular (which usually would be a huge selling point) the fact it requires excessive nudity (and I’m not kidding) and is such a controversial movie, he’s having a great deal of trouble finding someone.

As I’m sure you know by now Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz and Leonardo DiCaprio have the three of the four main roles (Broomhilda is the other) and Samuel L. Jackson and Kurt Russell have the two key supporting parts with lots of cameo’s in place for forgotten 80's t.v. legends.

RIP Peter Hammond

British producer, director, actor, screenwriter Peter Hammond passed away on October 12, 2011 in London, England. He was 87. Born Peter C. Hammond Hill, on November 23, 1923 in London, Hammond made his film debut in "Waterloo Road" (1945) and went on to carve a career playing the boy next door throughout the late 1940s and 1950s in such films as The Huggetts Trilogy (1948-1949). Other well known films were "Holiday Camp" 1947) "Helter Skelter" (1949), "Morning Departure" (1950), "The Adventurers" (1951) and "X the Unknown" (1956). Venturing into television he appeared in such series as "The Adventures of William Tell" and "The Buccaneers". In the ‘60s he turned to directing such TV programs as "The Avengers", "Armchair Theatre", "Out of the Unknown" and "The Return of Sherlock Holmes". Hammond directed one Euro-western "The Phantom Kid" (1977). He was married to actress Maureen Glynne.