Wednesday, February 22, 2023

New French 2 Blu-ray release – “Les 4 de l'apocalypse” + “Tuez Les Tous. et revenez Seul”

 









“Les 4 de l'apocalypse” + “Tuez Les Tous. et revenez Seul”

(4 of the Apocalypse / Kill Them All and Come Back Alone)

 

Directors: Lucio Fulci, Enzo G. Castellari

Starring: Fabio Testi, Tomas Milian / Chuck Connors, Frank Wolf

 

Country: France

Label: Studiocanal

Blu-ray running time: 104 minutes, 100 minutes

DVD running time: 100 minutes, 96 minutes

Resolution:

Aspect ratio: 1.85, 2.35

Languages:

Subtitles: French

Extras:

ASIN: B0BMSRKRKJ

Available February 22, 2023

Who Are Those Guys? ~ Alberto Dalbes

 

Francisco Eduardo Evres Martinezwas an Argentine film and television actor born in Rosario, Argentina on April 3, 1922. He was best known by his stage name Alberto Dalbes and appeared in Argentinian and Spanish films. In Argentina, he acquired notoriety as a matinée idol opposite singer-actress Lolita Torres on three successful musical comedies. In Spain he was known for his horror films, giallo and crime dramas (“Night of the Assassins”, “A Quiet Place To Kill”) and Spaghetti westerns (“Cut-Throats Nine”, “100 Rifles”). He was known for his roles in eleven films directed by Jesus Franco He also starred in “Hunchback of the Morgue” (1973) co-starring Paul Naschy and “Maniac Mansion” (1972). He died in Madrid on September 14, 1983, of a heart attack at the age of 61.

DALBES, Alberto (aka Alberto D'Albés, Alberto Dalbes, Albert Dalbes, Alberto Dalbés, Alberto Dalvés) (Francisco Eduardo Eyres Martínez) [4/3/1922, Rosario, Argentina – 9/14/1983, Madrid, Madrid, Spain (heart attack)] – film, TV actor.

Billy the Kid – 1963 (Captain Harkell)

A Place Called Glory – 1965 (Joe Vallone)

100 Rifles – 1969 (Padre Francisco)

Pancho Villa – 1971 (Captain Mendoza)

Cut-Throats Nine - 1972 (Thomas 'Dandy Tom' Lawrence)

Special Birthdays

 John Mills (actor) would have been 115 today but died in 2005.






Zephi Alsec (actor) would have been 100 today but died in 1992.







Karin Dor (actress) would have been 85today but died in 2017.








Viktor Belovotsky (actor) is 75 today.

Tuesday, February 21, 2023

Mardi Gras 2023

 


Little Known Spaghetti Western Actors ~ Emiliano Aleman

 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 gven and anything that you can add would be appreciated.

The only credited acting role for Emiliano Aleman is as a bandit in 1968’s “The Longest Hunt”. Is he a Spanish actor? With the “Longest Hunt” a number of names were made up as credits so is or was Aleman a real person? I can find no mention of him on the Internet.

ALEMAN, Emiliano [Spanish] – film actor.

The Longest Hunt – 1968 (bandit)

Voices of the Spaghetti Western– “Cavalry Charge”

 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 “Cavalry Charge”

[(I) Italian, (S) Spanish, (G) German, (F) French, (E) English]

Commander Inspector John Bedford – Alan Scott (S) Paco Valladares

Corporal Paul White – Frank Latimore (S) Félix Acaso

Flower of the Mountains – Diana Lorys (S) Josefina de Luna

Valerie Jackson – Maria Silva (S) Maria Silva

Sergeant Custer – Alfonso Rojas (S) Claudio Rodríguez

Trapper Don Halsey – Barta Barri (S) Benjamin Domingo










Benjamin Domingo  (19??-deceased)

Benjamin Domingo began on radio in 1958 and then entered dubbing, starting with a small role in “Viva Zapata”. He usually dubbed serious, authoritative types, such as William Conrad on TV's ‘Cannon’ and Lorne Greene in the first dub of ‘Bonanza’, Henry Fonda in “Meteor”, Desmon Llewellyn as Q in three James Bond movies, Harry Andrews in “Superman: The Movie” and elsewhere, and Raymond Burr as Pope John Pope John XXIII in the TV movie Portrait: ‘A Man Whose Name Was John’. He dubbed Jackie Gleason in the first two Smokey and the Bandit movies, Broderick Crawford in “All the King's Men”, Ray Collins in “Citizen Kane”, Roscoe Lee Browne in “Logan's Run”, Ward Bond in “It's a Wonderful Life”, Donald Crisp in “How Green Was My Valley”, and an assortment of judges, clergy, doctors, and police chiefs.


Spaghetti Western Locations (Then and Now) – “Navajo Joe”

 Here’s a scene from 1966’s “Navajo Joe with the train steaming through a canyon.

Now here’s the same location as seen in 2021. The tracks and ties have been removed and only remnants of the bed remain.