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Carlo Simi
Carlo Simi (7 November 1924 – 26 November 2000) was an Italian architect, production designer and costume designer, who worked frequently with Sergio Leone and Sergio Corbucci, giving their Spaghetti Westerns a unique look. Most famous for his costume and set designs for ''Once Upon a Time in the West'' Simi also built the town of 'El Paso' in the Almería desert for Leone's second Western, ''For a Few Dollars More''. Built around a massive bank, with vistas of the Tabernas Desert visible between buildings, the set still exists, as a tourist attraction called "Mini Hollywood". Simi played the bank manager in that film: it was his only acting role. He also designed the Sad Hill Cemetery for the last scene of ''The Good, the Bad and the Ugly''. Simi died in Rome in 2000. Some of his costumes and set designs were exhibited at the Autry National Center's Museum of the American West in Los Angeles in 2005. In 2018 he posthumously received the 'Leone in Memoriam' award by the Alm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
For A Few Dollars More
''For a Few Dollars More'' ( it, Per qualche dollaro in più) is a 1965 Spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Leone. It stars Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef as bounty hunters and Gian Maria Volonté as the primary villain. German actor Klaus Kinski plays a supporting role as a secondary villain. The film was an international co-production between Italy, West Germany, and Spain. The film was released in the United States in 1967, and is the second part of what is commonly known as the ''Dollars Trilogy''. Plot The man that many call Manco ("Lefty") is a bounty hunter, a profession shared by a former army officer, Colonel Douglas Mortimer. They separately learn that a ruthless, cold-blooded bank robber, "El Indio", has been broken out of prison by his gang and all but one of his jailers slaughtered. While Indio is murdering the family of the man who had captured him, he is shown to carry a musical pocket watch taken from a woman who had shot herself, as he was raping her af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
''The Good, the Bad and the Ugly'' ( it, Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo, literally "The good, the ugly, the bad") is a 1966 Italian epic spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood as "the Good", Lee Van Cleef as "the Bad", and Eli Wallach as "the Ugly". Its screenplay was written by Age & Scarpelli, Luciano Vincenzoni, and Leone (with additional screenplay material and dialogue provided by an uncredited Sergio Donati),Sir Christopher Frayling, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly audio commentary (Blu-ray version). Retrieved on 26 April 2014. based on a story by Vincenzoni and Leone. Director of photography Tonino Delli Colli was responsible for the film's sweeping widescreen cinematography, and Ennio Morricone composed the film's score, including its main theme. It was an Italian-led production with co-producers in Spain, West Germany, and the United States. Most of the filming took place in Spain. The film is known for Leone's use of long shots ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Day Of Anger
''Day of Anger'' ( it, I giorni dell'ira, lit. "The Days of Wrath") is a 1967 Spaghetti Western film directed and co-written by Tonino Valerii and starring Lee Van Cleef and Giuliano Gemma, and features a musical score by Riz Ortolani. The film credits the novel ''Der Tod ritt dienstags'' ("Death Rode on Tuesdays") by Ron Barker (Rolf O. Becker) as its basis, although Valerii and screenwriter Ernesto Gastaldi have attested that this credit was primarily included to appease the West German co-producers, and that although some scenes are partially borrowed from it, the film is not an adaptation of Becker's novel. ''Day of Anger'' was Valerii's second film, as well as his second Spaghetti Western, following ''Taste for Killing''. Valerii went on to film his third Spaghetti Western, ''The Price of Power'', also featuring Gemma, in 1969. Plot Scott is a young man working as a street sweeper in the town of Clifton, Arizona. Scott is looked down upon by the town people, as he has neve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Face To Face (1967 Film)
''Face to Face'' ( it, Faccia a faccia; es, Cara a cara) is a 1967 Spaghetti Western film co-written and directed by Sergio Sollima and produced by Alberto Grimaldi. The film stars Gian Maria Volonté, Tomas Milian and William Berger, and features a musical score by Ennio Morricone. It is the second of Sollima's three Westerns, following ''The Big Gundown'' and predating ''Run, Man, Run'', a sequel to the former. Milian stars in a lead role in all three films. The film portrays the unlikely partnership of Professor Fletcher (Volonté), a university lecturer, and "Beauregard" Bennet (Milian), a wanted outlaw, and a series of events that results in an exchange of their moral values, culminating in Fletcher taking control of Bennet's bandit gang. Frequently interpreted as a parable based on the rise of European fascism,Cox, 1993Hughes, 2009 the story and themes of ''Face to Face'' were based on Sollima's wartime experiences, and his personal beliefs on the role of environmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Texas, Adios
''Texas, Adios'' (Italian: ''Texas, addio'') is a 1966 Italian/Spanish international co-production Spaghetti Western film directed by Ferdinando Baldi and starring Franco Nero. It is often referenced in connection with '' Django'', also starring Nero, and although was referred to as ''Django 2'' in some countries, it is not considered a sequel. The film is mostly remembered as a lesser known Spaghetti Western. Plot Although technically a Spaghetti Western, the plot of ''Texas, Adios'' plays more like a traditional American western film. Franco Nero plays two-fisted, taciturn Texas sheriff Burt Sullivan, a man committed to duty and justice but possessed by a desire for revenge. Sullivan, along with his younger brother, crosses the border to bring wealthy and sadistic Mexican crime boss Cisco Delgado ( José Suárez) to justice for the murder of their father. Eventually joining forces with a group of Mexican revolutionaries, Sullivan and his brother soon find themselves at the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ringo And His Golden Pistol
''Ringo and His Golden Pistol'' ( it, Johnny Oro) is a 1966 Italian Spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Corbucci and starring Mark Damon. Synopsis Renamed to cash in on the success of Duccio Tessari’s Ringo movies, ''Ringo and His Golden Pistol'' focuses on bounty hunter Johnny Oro/Ringo who sees killing as purely business; in fact he will not draw his solid gold pistol unless he can profit from it and this gets him into trouble. He lets Juanito Perez live because there is nothing to gain from killing a man without a price on his head, unlike his brothers, who "Ringo" does kill. Perez swears revenge and faces off with "Ringo". Juanito has formed an alliance with the local Indian chief and is now prepared for an all-out war against the peaceful town and sheriff that are protecting "Ringo". Cast * Mark Damon as Jonathan Tomadaro Jefferson Gonzales ("Johnny Oro"/"Johnny Ringo") * Valeria Fabrizi as Margie * Franco De Rosa (as Franco Derosa) as Juanito Perez * Ettore Manni a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Django (1966 Film)
''Django'' ( ) is a 1966 Italian Spaghetti Western film directed and co-written by Sergio Corbucci, starring Franco Nero (in his breakthrough role) as the title character alongside Loredana Nusciak, José Bódalo, Ángel Álvarez and Eduardo Fajardo. The film follows a Union soldier-turned-drifter and his companion, a mixed-race prostitute, who become embroiled in a bitter, destructive feud between a gang of Confederate 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''.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 Kingdom until 1993, when it was issued an 18 certificate (the film was downgraded to a 15 certificate in 2004). A commercial success upon release, ''Django' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minnesota Clay
''Minnesota Clay'' is a 1964 Spaghetti Western directed by Sergio Corbucci. Plot The year is 1883. Clay, a gunfighter with health problems, is interned in Drunner Labor Camp. He's determined to prove his innocence since he was framed by Fox, the current Sheriff of Clay's former home of Mesa Encantada. Fox has subsequently been hired by the townspeople to protect them from Ortiz and his bandits. Instead, Fox now runs a protection racket, extorting and terrorizing the complacent citizens, threatening them with violence if they do not pay exorbitant taxes to him. Clay rides out to meet Ortiz, who tries to hire him to kill Fox. Ortiz's mistress Estella, whom Clay saved earlier from an attack by Fox's men, lets Clay escape the Ortiz encampment. She tells him Clay stole gold from him, prompting Ortiz and his gang to seek out Clay. This enables Fox to ambush both of them. Fox kills Ortiz and captures Clay. She helps Clay escape and, despite losing his sight, manages to decimate Fox's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bullets Don't Argue
''Bullets Don't Argue'' (Italian title: ''Le pistole non discutono'', also known as ''Guns Don't Talk'' and ''Pistols Don't Argue'') is a 1964 Italian Spaghetti Western directed by Mario Caiano. The film was produced by Jolly Film, back to back with Sergio Leone's ''A Fistful of Dollars'', but with a more extensive budget and anticipating greater success than Leone's film, especially since at the time leading actor Rod Cameron was better known than Clint Eastwood. Plot On his wedding day, sheriff Pat Garrett must arrest two bank robbers. Cast * Rod Cameron as Pat Garrett * Horst Frank as Billy Clayton * Ángel Aranda as George Clayton * Vivi Bach as Agnes Goddard * Hans Nielsen as Reverend Alvarez * Luis Duran as Mike Goddard * Kai Fischer as Helen * Mimmo Palmara as Santero * Andrea Aureli as Manuel * José Manuel Martín José Manuel Martín Pérez (born 24 May 1924) is a Spanish retired film and television actor, radio broadcaster, and screenwriter. He was a po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joly Digital
Grupo Joly is a Spanish publishing company which started operating in 1867 in Andalusia, southern Spain, publishing Diario de Cádiz. Grupo Joly sold 100,000 copies a day in 2002 and reached 400,000 readers daily. Publications Grupo Joly's publications include eight Spanish dailies: *''Diario de Cádiz'' *''Diario de Jerez'' *''Europa Sur'' *''Diario de Sevilla ''Diario de Sevilla'' is a Spanish newspaper founded in 1999 in Seville. It is part of the communications group Grupo Joly. Its circulation as of 2013 was 23,172. The current ''Diario'' is not to be confused with a previous periodical of the sam ...'' *''El Dia de Córdoba'' *''Huelva Información'' *''Granada Hoy'' *''Málaga Hoy'' Management *José Joly Martínez de Salazar *Rosario Joly Palomino *José Joly Palomino *Joaquina Martínez de Salazar Bascuñana *Joaquín Joly Martínez de Salazar *Rosa Joly Palomino Editors *Manuel Clavero Arévalo *José Luis Ballester *Carlos Colón Perales *Manuel Concha Ruiz *Franc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diario De Almería
Diario (Italian, Spanish "Diary") and ''El Diario'' (Spanish, "The Daily") may refer to: Newspapers, periodicals and websites * ''El Diario'' (Argentina) * ''Diario'' (Aruba) * ''El Diario'' (La Paz), Bolivia * ''Diario Extra'' (Costa Rica) *''Diario Libre'', Dominican Republic *''El Diario de Hoy'', El Salvador *'' Diario de Centro América'', Guatemala * ''Diario'' (magazine) (1996–2009), Italy *'' El Diario de Juárez'', Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico *'' Diario de Morelia'', Mexico *'' El Diario de Nuevo Laredo'', Mexico *''Diario de Yucatán'', Mexico *''O Diário'' (1976–1990), Portugal *''E-Dyario'', Philippines *''El Diario Vasco'', Basque Country, Spain * ''El Diario'' (Spain) *''El Diario La Prensa'', New York City, United States *''El Diario de El Paso'', Texas, United States * ''El Diario'' (Uruguay) Other uses * ''Diario'' (Cultura Profética album), 2002 *''Diário'', a 2005 album by Mafalda Arnauth See also *Diario Extra (other) Diario Extra may ref ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles
Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world's most populous megacities. Los Angeles is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Southern California. With a population of roughly 3.9 million residents within the city limits , Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic and cultural diversity, being the home of the Hollywood film industry, and its sprawling metropolitan area. The city of Los Angeles lies in a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the west and extending through the Santa Monica Mountains and north into the San Fernando Valley, with the city bordering the San Gabriel Valley to it's east. It covers about , and is the county seat of Los Angeles County, which is the most populous county in the United States with an estim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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