European Western Comic Books ~ Albo Texas

Albo Texas

Published as a single non-periodical number, but it then came out for at least 6 issues. The magazines do not carry any cover dates (but they came out in about 1963) and presented recycled material already published in the Wonderful Adventures series from Fumetti Publishing, of the Albi Condor of the publisher Cecchini and of the Albi Grand Adventure of the Ariete Editions and from publications of Pini Mark. Among the characters Kansas Jack, Stuart Taylor, (from De Leo's Jumbo Comics), Gordon Schott and Terry Carson by Annibale Casabianca, and reprints of various material designed by Annibale Casabianca, Leone Cimpellin and Gino Cossio. Similar material is also found in the similar Giant Prairie Albo. The covers were drawn by R. Capredoni.

The comic book was first published in January 1963 and ended in June 1963. They were published by DNP (Distribuzione Nazionale Periodici) in Milan, Italy and each issue consisted of 96 black and white pages with color covers.

Titles

01 (00.00.63) - “Uccideteli tutti!” (Kill Them All)
02 (00.00.63) - “La gola del diavolo” (The Devil’s Throat)
03 (00.00.63) - “Gli scotennatori” (The Skinners)
04 (00.00.63) - "Texas Kid" (Texas Kid)
05 (00.00.63) - “Il rodeo dei desperados” (The Rodeo of Desperados)
06 (00.00.63) - “La vendetta del meticcio” (The Revenge of the Mestizo)

Special Bithdays

Armando Curcio (actor) would have been 120 today, he died in 1957.

Peppino Gagliardo (singer) is 80 today.

Land

Land – French title

Land: tierra de nadie – Mexican title

Ziemia – Polish title

Land – U.K. title

Land – English title

A 2018 Italian, French, Dutch, Mexican, Qatar film co-production [Rai Cinema, Asmara Films (Rome), The Cup of Tea. To Be Continued (Paris), Topkapi Films (Amsterdam), Piano (Mexico City)]

Producers: Gianfranco Barbagallo, Gabriel Stavenhagen, Julio Chavezmontes, ChristopheAudeguis, Ginevra Elkann, Arnold Heslenfeld, Dominique Marzotto, Laurette Schillings, Frans van Gestel, Colin Maunoury, Anne Reulat, Alejandro Sánchez de la Peña, Gonzalo Alvarez Godoy, Francesca Zanza

Director: Babak Jalali

Story: Babak Jalali

Screenplay: Babak Jalali

Cinematography: Agnès Godard [color]

Music: Jozef van Wissem

Running time: 111 minutes

Story: A Native American family struggles with violence and alcohol, when news reaches the Reservation that one of them has died during military service in Afghanistan.

Cast:

Raymond Yellow Eagle – Rod Rondeaux

Sally – Florence C.M. Klein

Wesley Yellow Eagle – James Coleman

Bettie - Gerogina Lightning

Rosie – Antonia Steinberg

Peter – Andrew J. Katers

Eli - Griffin Burns

Major Robertson – Mark Mahoney

Sam – Barnet Rogers

Dead brother – Loren Anthony

Police officer – Michael Arturo

Major Jacobs – Thomas R. Baker

Tommy – Raymond Joseph Garcia

Jane – Stephanie Harpe

Cock fight gambler – Ryan McClurkin

Derek – Michele Melega

Mark – Jake Miller

Nate – Glen Talley

Tribal police officer – Tommy Wolfe

By ayoreinf

It's a very deliberatly slow movie, taking place on a modern Indian reserve in the U.S.A. The story is as modern as possible, depicting modern day problems of modern Indians who work in the dairy of their neighbors maintaining an uneasy coexistance with very little love or respect lost between the neighbors. The story is the story of the Indians, it moves along at their pace of living. In which every action is very deliberate and carefully thought out.

It's very much like watching a slowmo train wreck. We all know it's going to end badly, and yet we can't look away. In fact the director could've decided to finish his movie five minutes later, and it would've been a down right tragedy, but he chose to end it when he did, so we can still believe there's a chance for a happier ending. It's not a rational belief, but it's the ending we all want to take place.

The actors are all very real, some of them not professional, or doing their first steps as actors, none of them is a big star, but they all play their parts perfectly. The film plays like a documentary, and in a way it is trying to be a document of this train wreck called the life of native Americans in modern day U.S.A.

Trailer link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exS2m3B1GoU

Spaghetti Western Locations for “Day of Anger”

We continue our search for filming locations for “Day of Anger”. In the saloon Nigel walks in and gives Talby the rifle owned by Sam Corbitt. He warns Talby that Owen White is able to shoot ten buffalo, while riding at full speed. Talby tells Nigel, “The weapon that’s going to kill him hasn’t been invented yet.” Owen says from across the room, “Who knows?” White challenges Talby to a duel on horseback with front loading rifles. Talby asks if he has a reason for this? Owen tells him again, he’s made a lot of enemies. Talby says, “Alright, I’ll kill you anyway you want, tomorrow morning, at sunrise.”

This scene was filmed at the Cinecitta western set saloon in Rome, Italy.

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

Ioana Ciomârtan (actress) would have been 105 today she died in 1993.

Jaako Talaskivi (actor) would have been 95 today, he died in 1998.

Mart Hulswit (actor) is 80 today.

John C. Reilly (producer, actor) is 55 today. 

Voices of the Spaghetti Western ~ “Tequila”

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 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 “Tequila”

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

Shoshena – Anthony Steffen (I) Anthony Steffen, (S) Rafael De Penagos, (G) Klaus Kindler

Corgan – Eduardo Fajardo (I) ?, (S) Eduardo Fajardo, (G) Klaus Miedel, (E) Anthony La Penna

Fuzzy – Roberto Camardiel (I) ?, (S) Vicente Bañó, (G) ?

Ingrid Cogan - Ágata Lys (I) Agata Lys, (I) Maite Santamarina, (G) ?

Beatrice Rush - María Elena Arpón (I) ?, (S) María Luisa Rubio, (G) ?

Vicente Bano (1926 – 1978)

Gifted, with a very deep voice, Vicente Baño Gomis had developed in the Alicante theater scene, where he was born in 1926 and later moved to Madrid when he was 25 to seek his fortune in the world of acting.

A radio producer signed him to perform radio dubbing. His great voice and good looks did not go unnoticed, and he was soon offered to double foreign films. In total, he worked on more than 1,000 movies. Some of the most outstanding cinema characters he dubbed were John Wayne, Gary Cooper, Groucho Marx, Orson Welles, Burt Lancaster, Anthony Quinn, Victor Mature and the famous talking mule Francis.

He also worked on television series, highlighting his role on ‘Ironside’ and ‘Kojak’ where he doubled stars Raymond Burr and Telly Savalas respectively.

From the end of the 1960s he did voiceovers for many TVE programs. He became one of the most representative voices on the public network.

Although he lived for the rest of his life in Madrid, he often returned to Alicante. In his hometown, he died suddenly at just 52 years of age from an intestinal perforation.

Who Are Those Composers? ~ Berto Pisano

Berto Pisano was born in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy on October 13, 1928. He was the younger brother of composer, conductor, arranger, songwriter, singer, musician Franco Pisano [1922-1977]. Berto started his career as contrabassist in several jazz groups including ‘Quartetto Astor’ and “Orchestra Gli Asternovas’. He’s best known as a composer of pop songs and woked with such artists as Mina, Edda Dell Orso, Alessandro Alessandroni and Oscar Valdambrini. He also composed more than 50 scores for film and television. He’s best remembered for his hit “A Blue Shadow” which was the theme song of the RAI TV series ‘Ho incontrato un’ombra’. The song reached number one on the 1974 Italian hit parade.

Berto Pisano passed away in his hometown of Cagliari on January 29, 2002. He was 73.

PISANO, Berto (aka Berto-Pisano, B. Pisano, Roberto Pisano, Burt Rexon) [10/13/1928, Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy – 1/29/2002, Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy] – composer, conductor, arranger, musician (bass), brother of composer, conductor, songwriter, singer Franco Pisano [1922-1977], member of the groups ‘Quartetto Astor’ ‘Orchestra Gli Asternovas’.

Django Kills Silently - 1967

     Song: “Chi non e’ con te” sung by Anna Rita Spinaci

Killer Kid – 1967

One After the Other - 1968

     Song: “My be One, May be Nine” sung by Fred Bongusto (Alfredo Bongusto)