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The Price Of Death
''The Price of Death'' () is a 1971 Italian Western film directed by Lorenzo Gicca Palli and starring Klaus Kinski and Gianni Garko. Some DVD releases use the title ''Der Galgen wartet schon, Amigo!''. Plot Silver, who is elegantly dressed and lives in a hacienda with beautiful senoritas, is hired to find out if the accused Chester Conway, the black sheep of the town, really is guilty of the murder charge that he is to hang for. By investigating clues and arranging a trap, Silver discloses some respected citizens as the guilty parties. However, when Conway is released Silver shows that he had raped and killed a Mexican girl while the murder he was charged with took place, and he kills Conway in a duel. Cast * Gianni Garko as Silver * Klaus Kinski as Chester Conway * Gely Genka as Polly * Franco Abbiana as Jeff Plummer * Luciano Catenacci as Sheriff Tom Stanton * Laura Gianoli as Polly's sister * Giancarlo Prete as Reverend Adam Tiller * Luigi Casellato as Abacuc Randall * L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorenzo Gicca Palli
Lorenzo Gicca Palli (Rome, 1929 – Rome, 1997) was an Italian screenwriter and director. He often used the pseudonym Vincent Thomas. Filmography Director and screenwriter * ''Giorni di sangue'' (1968) * ''Il Corsaro nero, Blackie the Pirate'' (1971, under the name Vincent Thomas) * ''The Price of Death'' (1971, under the name Vincent Thomas) * ''Liebes Lager'' (1976, under the name Vincent Thomas) Director * ''Primo tango a Roma – Storia d'amore e d'alchimia'' (1973, under the name Vincent Thomas) Screenwriter * ''The Road to Fort Alamo'', directed by Mario Bava (1964) * ''Una voglia da morire'', directed by Duccio Tessari (1965) * ''Hercules the Avenger'', directed by Maurizio Lucidi (1965) * ''A Question of Honour (film), A Question of Honour'', directed by Luigi Zampa (1965) * ''The Almost Perfect Crime'', directed by Mario Camerini (1966) * ''È mezzanotte... butta giù il cadavere'', directed by Guido Zurli (1966) * ''Killer Caliber .32'', directed by Alfonso Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Scotti
Andrea Scotti (27 August 1931 – 21 December 2003) was an Italian film and television actor. Background Born in Naples, Scotti attended at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, graduating in 1956. During his career he was mainly active in genre films, particularly peplum, Spaghetti Western The spaghetti Western is a broad subgenre of Western films produced in Europe. It emerged in the mid-1960s in the wake of Sergio Leone's filmmaking style and international box-office success. The term was used by foreign critics because most o ... and crime films, He was sometimes credited Andrew Scott. Scotti died in Nepi on 21 December 2003, at the age of 72. Selected filmography * '' Captain Falcon'' (1958) * '' Three Strangers in Rome'' (1958) * '' Death of a Friend'' (1959) * '' Attack of the Moors'' (1959) * '' Atom Age Vampire'' (1960) * '' The Huns'' (1960) * '' Don Camillo: Monsignor'' (1961) * '' Taras Bulba, the Cossack'' (1962) * '' Samson and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1970s Italian-language Films
Year 197 ( CXCVII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Magius and Rufinus (or, less frequently, year 950 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 197 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * February 19 – Battle of Lugdunum: Emperor Septimius Severus defeats the self-proclaimed emperor Clodius Albinus at Lugdunum (modern Lyon). Albinus commits suicide; legionaries sack the town. * Septimius Severus returns to Rome and has about 30 of Albinus's supporters in the Senate executed. After his victory he declares himself the adopted son of the late Marcus Aurelius. * Septimius Severus forms new naval units, manning all the triremes in Italy with heavily armed troops for war in the East. His soldiers embark on an artificial canal between the Tigri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1971 Western (genre) Films
* The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses (Solar eclipse of February 25, 1971, February 25, Solar eclipse of July 22, 1971, July 22 and Solar eclipse of August 20, 1971, August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 1971 lunar eclipse, February 10, and August 1971 lunar eclipse, August 6). The world population increased by 2.1% this year, the highest increase in history. Events January * January 2 – 1971 Ibrox disaster: During a crush, 66 people are killed and over 200 injured in Glasgow, Scotland. * January 5 – The first ever One Day International cricket match is played between Australia and England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. * January 8 – Tupamaros kidnap Geoffrey Jackson, British ambassador to Uruguay, in Montevideo, keeping him captive until September. * January 9 – Uruguayan president Jorge Pacheco Areco demands emergency powers for 90 days due to kidnappings, and receives them the next day. * January 12 – The landmark United States televis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1971 Films
The year 1971 in film involved some significant events. Highest-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1971 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events *February 8 - Bob Dylan's hour-long documentary film, ''Eat the Document'', premieres at New York's Academy of Music. The film includes footage from Dylan's 1966 UK tour. *April 23 - Melvin Van Peebles film '' Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song'' becomes the highest-grossing independent film of 1971. *May - The first permanent IMAX projection system begins showing at Ontario Place's "Cinesphere" in Toronto. *May 10 - Frank Yablans becomes President of Paramount Pictures. *Britain's National Film School begins operation at Beaconsfield Film Studios. Awards Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival): :'' The Go-Between'', directed by Joseph Losey, United Kingdom Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival): :''The Garden of the Finzi-Continis'' (''Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini''), directed by Vittorio De Sic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Killer Adios
''Killer Adios'' (also known as ''Killer Goodbye'', ''Winchester Justice'' and ''Winchester One of One Thousand'') is a 1968 Italian Spaghetti Western directed by Primo Zeglio. Cast * Peter Lee Lawrence: Jess Bryan * Rosalba Neri: Fanny Endes (as ''Sara Bay'') * Marisa Solinas: Sheila Simpson * Armando Calvo: Bill Bragg * Nello Pazzafini: Jack Bradshaw * Luis Induni: Sheriff Clint Simpson * Eduardo Fajardo: Sam Ringold * José Jaspe: Elliott * Victor Israel: Dixon * Paola Barbara Paola Barbara (22 July 1912 – 2 October 1989) was an Italian film actress. She appeared in more than 60 films between 1935 and 1978. She was sometimes credited as Pauline Baards. Life and career Born in Rome as Paola Proto, after her fi ...: Bragg's sister Reception ''Film Mese'' noticed how the film functioned largely as a detective film, and praised the sensual representation of actresses Solinas and Neri. ''Lexikon des Internationalen Films'' wrote: "Relatively bloodless, average spaghe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Killer Caliber 32
''Killer Caliber .32 '' (, also known as ''32 Caliber Killer'') is a 1967 Italian Spaghetti Western film written and directed by Alfonso Brescia and starring Peter Lee Lawrence. Plot Silver kills the seven members of a masked gang, one by one. Saloon girls and poker games enliven this action-packed movie which culminates in the unmasking of the evil gang's boss. Cast * Peter Lee Lawrence as Silver * Agnès Spaak as Beth * Hélène Chanel as Doll * Andrea Bosic as Averell * Mirko Ellis as Sheriff Bear * John Bartha as Parker * Silvio Bagolini as Old Man * Michael Bolt as Carruthers * Alberto Dell'Acqua as Spot Averell * Massimo Righi as Jud * Nello Pazzafini as Fitch See also * List of Italian films of 1967 A list of films produced in Italy in 1967 (see 1967 in film): References Footnotes Sources * * * * * * External linksItalian films of 1967at the Internet Movie Database {{DEFAULTSORT:Italian Films Of 1967 Lists of 1967 films ... Referenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wild East
Wild, wild, wilds or wild may refer to: Common meanings * Wilderness, a wild natural environment * Wildlife, an undomesticated organism * Wildness, the quality of being wild or untamed Art, media and entertainment Film and television * ''Wild'' (2014 film), a 2014 American film from the 2012 book * ''Wild'' (2016 film), a 2016 German film * ''The Wild'', a 2006 Disney 3D animation film * ''Wild'' (TV series), a 2006 American documentary television series * ''The Wilds'' (TV series), a 2020 television series Literature * '' Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail'' a 2012 non-fiction book by Cheryl Strayed * ''Wild, An elemental Journey'', a 2006 autobiographical book by Jay Griffiths * ''The Wild'' (novel), a 1991 novel by Whitley Strieber * ''The Wild'', a science fiction novel by David Zindell * ''The Wilds'', a 1998 limited-edition horror novel by Richard Laymon Music * ''Wild'' (band), a five-piece classical female group Albums and EPs * ''Wild'' (EP), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Django (1966 Film)
''Django'' ( ) is a 1966 spaghetti Western film directed, produced and co-written by Sergio Corbucci. It stars Franco Nero (in his breakthrough role) as Django (character), the title character, alongside Loredana Nusciak, José Bódalo, Ángel Álvarez, and Eduardo Fajardo. The film follows a Union Army, Union soldier-turned-drifter (person), drifter and his companion, a Multiracial people, mixed-race Prostitution, prostitute, who become embroiled in a bitter, destructive feud between a gang of Confederate States of America, Confederate Red Shirts (United States), Red Shirts and a band of Mexican revolutionaries. Intended to capitalize on and rival the success of Sergio Leone's ''A Fistful of Dollars'', Corbucci's film is, like Leone's, considered to be a loose, unofficial adaptation of Akira Kurosawa's ''Yojimbo (film), Yojimbo''.Cox, 2009 The film earned a reputation as one of the most violent films ever made at the time, and was subsequently refused a certificate in the United ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Fistful Of Dollars
''A Fistful of Dollars'' (, (''For a Fistful of Dollars'')) is a 1964 spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood in his first leading role, alongside Gian Maria Volonté, Marianne Koch, Wolfgang Lukschy, Sieghardt Rupp, José Calvo, Antonio Prieto and Joseph Egger. The film, an international co-production between Italy, West Germany and Spain, was filmed on a low budget (reported to be US$200,000), and Eastwood was paid $15,000 for his role. Released in Italy in 1964 and in the United States in 1967, the film initiated the popularity of the spaghetti Western genre. It is considered a landmark in cinema and one of the greatest and most influential films of all time. It was followed by ''For a Few Dollars More'' and ''The Good, the Bad and the Ugly'', both also starring Eastwood. Collectively, these three films became known as the ''Dollars Trilogy'', or the ''Man with No Name Trilogy'', after the United Artists publicity campaign referre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spaghetti Western
The spaghetti Western is a broad subgenre of Western films produced in Europe. It emerged in the mid-1960s in the wake of Sergio Leone's filmmaking style and international box-office success. The term was used by foreign critics because most of these Westerns were Cinema of Italy, produced and directed by Italians. The majority of the films in the spaghetti Western genre were international Co-production (media), co-productions by Italy and Spain, and sometimes France, West Germany, Britain, Portugal, Greece, Yugoslavia, and the United States. Over six hundred European Westerns were made between 1960 and 1978, including nearly five hundred in Italy, which dominated the market. Most spaghetti Westerns filmed between 1964 and 1978 were made on low budgets, and shot at Cinecittà, Cinecittà Studios and various locations around southern Italy and Spain. Leone's films and other core spaghetti Westerns are often described as having eschewed, criticized or even "demythologized" many ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giuseppe Castellano
Giuseppe Castellano (September 12, 1893 – July 31, 1977) was an Italian general who negotiated and signed the armistice between Italy and the Allies on September 3, 1943. Biography Military career Of Sicilian descent but born in Prato, he was the son of a military man. His career in the Army was rapid and brilliant. During the First World War, he was Captain of Artillery. In 1941, he was promoted to brigadier general during the Invasion of Yugoslavia and was the youngest general in Italy. In 1942 he was called to the Army General Staff and the following year, to the High Command and collaborated as personal aide with General Vittorio Ambrosio. He was a close friend of Benito Mussolini's son-in-law Galeazzo Ciano, who was the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs. Ciano was involved in ousting Mussolini in July 1943 after the Allied invasion of Sicily. Castellano sided with Ciano and had a prominent role in the events that led up to the fall of the fascist regime. He organised ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
