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Long Live Your Death
''Long Live Your Death'' (a.k.a. ''Don't Turn the Other Cheek!'', originally titled ''Viva la muerte... tua!'') is a 1971 Italian/Spanish/German international co-production Spaghetti Western / action comedy film directed by Duccio Tessari. The film is mostly a send up of "political" Spaghetti Westerns (also called Zapata Westerns), like '' A Professional Gun'' and '' Compañeros''. Plot In priestly disguise, the con artist Orlowsky learns from a last confession about a village where a treasure is hidden. He seeks out the Mexican bandit Max Lozoya, who knows more about its precise location – (part of) the instructions is tattooed on his ass. At the same time, the Irish journalist Mary O'Donnell wants to fire up the revolutionary cause and bribes sheriff Randall to have the Mexican revolutionary El Salvador escape prison. Even though El Salvador is dead, the sheriff accepts, haggling up the price. It turns out that he has a scam going, where he takes money to let prisoners escap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duccio Tessari
Duccio Tessari (11 October 1926 – 6 September 1994) was an Italian director, screenwriter and actor, considered one of the fathers of Spaghetti Westerns. Born in Genoa Genoa ( ; it, Genova ; lij, Zêna ). is the capital of the Italian region of Liguria and the List of cities in Italy, sixth-largest city in Italy. In 2015, 594,733 people lived within the city's administrative limits. As of the 2011 Italian ce ..., Tessari started in the fifties as documentarist and as screenwriter of Peplum (film genre), peplum films. In 1964 he co-wrote Sergio Leone's ''A Fistful of Dollars'', one year later he gained an impressive commercial success and launched the Giuliano Gemma's career with ''A Pistol for Ringo'' and its immediate sequel, ''The Return of Ringo''. He later touched different genres and worked in RAI TV, directing some successful TV-series. He died of cancer in Rome, at 67. He was married to actress Lorella De Luca. Filmography :Note: The films listed as N/A are not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Professional Gun
''The Mercenary'' ( it, Il mercenario), known in the UK as ''A Professional Gun'', is a 1968 Zapata Western film directed by Sergio Corbucci. The film stars Franco Nero, Jack Palance, Tony Musante, Eduardo Fajardo and Giovanna Ralli, and features a musical score by Ennio Morricone, taking inspriration from his work in ''Guns for San Sebastian'', and Bruno Nicolai. Plot On the northern side of the Mexico–United States border, Sergei "Polack" Kowalski, a well-groomed, greedy mercenary, attends a circus performance where he recognizes the show's lead rodeo clown as Paco Roman. During the performance, Kowalski reminisces on how he and Paco fought together as revolutionaries against the Mexican Government. Prior to the start of their partnership, Paco, a peon working in a silver mine owned by Elias Garcia, rebels against his boss and humiliates him and his two brothers, including Colonel Alfonso Garcia. He is soon captured, but saved from execution by his friends. Meanwhile, Kow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carla Mancini
Carla Mancini (born 21 April 1950) is an Italian film and television actress.Cox p.295 A graduate of the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia she made numerous appearances in films of the early 1970s. Selected filmography * '' Rough Justice'' (1970) * ''The President of Borgorosso Football Club'' (1970) * ''The Bird with the Crystal Plumage'' (1970) * '' Desert of Fire'' (1971) * '' Erika'' (1971) * ''The Red Queen Kills Seven Times'' (1972) * '' Who Killed the Prosecutor and Why?'' (1972) * '' La prima notte di quiete'' (1972) * '' 100 Fäuste und ein Vaterunser'' (1972) * ''Seven Blood-Stained Orchids'' (1972) * '' Go Away! Trinity Has Arrived in Eldorado'' (1972) * ''How Funny Can Sex Be?'' (1973) * ''The Fighting Fist of Shanghai Joe'' (1973) * ''My Name Is Nobody'' (1973) * ''Cry of a Prostitute'' (1974) * '' L'arbitro'' (1974) * ''Pasqualino Cammarata, Frigate Captain'' (1974) * '' The Visitor'' (1974) * ''The Perfume of the Lady in Black'' (1974) * '' Somewhere Beyond Love' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirko Ellis
Mirko Ellis (4 September 1923 – 11 September 2014) was a Swiss-Italian film, stage and television actor. Born Mirko Korcinsky in Locarno to a family of Lithuanian origin, Ellis moved, after his studies, to Italy, where he made his film debut in 1946, in a critically acclaimed role in Aldo Vergano's neorealist drama ''The Sun Still Rises''. One year later, he debuted on stage in the theatrical company of Maria Melato. He later alternated important roles and character roles, in genre films and television productions. Ellis was married to fellow actress Esther Maring, with whom he lived in Alghero, Sardinia. On 11 September 2014, Ellis fell from the balcony of his fourth-floor apartment and died. Police believe his death was a suicide. Selected filmography * ''The Sun Still Rises'' (1946) * ''Vanity'' (1947) * ''Accidenti alla guerra!...'' (1948) - Von Papen * '' Flying Squadron'' (1949) - Mario * ''La roccia incantata'' (1949) * '' Altura'' (1949) * ''La vendetta di una paz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Furio Meniconi
Furio Meniconi (22 February 1924 – 12 December 1981) was an Italian film and television actor. Life and career Meniconi was born in Rome into a family active in the cinema industry in the technical cast, or engaged in the general organization. Since the early 1950s he established himself as one of the most active character actors in the Italian genre cinema, especially in the Peplum, Spaghetti Western and pirate film genres. He was sometimes credited as Men Fury. Selected filmography * '' Son of d'Artagnan'' (1950) * '' Vendetta... sarda'' (1952) - Primo fratello Leoni * ''Patos e Papoulas'' (1953) - Spacciatore di droga * ''Riscatto'' (1953) * '' Attila'' (1954) - Capo della tribu * '' Queen of Babylon'' (1954) - Bolgias * ''La campana di San Giusto'' (1954) * '' The Sign of Venus'' (1955) - Proprietario della trattoria * ''Vous pigez?'' (1955) - Giuseppe * ''Orlando e i Paladini di Francia'' (1956) * '' Allow Me, Daddy!'' (1956) - Il secondo facchino * ''Pirate of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Jaspe
José Jaspe ( gl, Xosé Jaspe Rivas) (10 August 1906 – 5 June 1974) was a Spanish film actor. He played Konev the conductor in ''Horror Express'' (1972), Ahmed in '' House of 1,000 Dolls'' (1967), Henneker in ''The Man Called Noon'' (1973), the traitor in '' The Centurion'' (1961), Sabrath in '' The Golden Arrow'' (1962), Spanish POW in ''Submarine Attack'' (1954), José in '' Black Jack'' (1950), and Enrique in ''El pobre rico'' (1942), by Ignacio F. Iquino. He appeared in the Spaghetti Western film ''Jesse James' Kid'' (1965), starring Mercedes Alonso, Roberto Camardiel and Luis Induni. He died in Becerril de la Sierra in 1974. Selected filmography * ''El sobre lacrado'' (1941) * '' We Thieves Are Honourable'' (1942) - Pelirrojo * ''El pobre rico'' (1942) * ''La culpa del otro'' (1942) - Patrón * ''Boda accidentada'' (1943) - Mario * ''Un enredo de familia'' (1943) - Niceto * ''El abanderado'' (1943) - Malasaña * ''Mi fantástica esposa'' (1944) * ''Paraíso sin Eva'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Van Husen
Dan van Husen (30 April 1945 – 31 May 2020) was a German actor. He started his career in the 1960s, playing in a number of Spaghetti Westerns (usually he was cast as the bad guy), and also performed in Italian and German films by renowned directors including Frederico Fellini and Werner Herzog and in German TV series. Starting in the 2000s he performed in Hollywood films, and in 2008 had a role in a Dutch World War 2 movie, '' Winter in Wartime''. Early life Dan van Husen was born in Gummersbach, Germany, on 30 April 1945, the day Adolf Hitler committed suicide in Berlin. Career He was first discovered by Italian producers while working as a club disc jockey in Spain and began working increasingly seriously as an actor in the late 60s. He appeared in twenty Italo Westerns in six or seven years and before branching out to diverse roles and genres. In the years 1968-1974 he participated in more than 24 Italo Westerns, amongst others directed by Sergio Corbucci, Sergio Martino, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Víctor Israel
Víctor Israel born José María Soler Vilanova (13 June 1929 – 19 September 2009) was a Spanish film actor. He appeared in more than 140 films, beginning in 1961. He died on 19 September 2009 aged 80 in Barcelona. Selected filmography * '' Savage Guns'' (1961) * ''The Lovely Lola'' (1962) * '' Circus World'' (1964) * ''Train d'enfer'' (1965) * ''The Good, the Bad and the Ugly'' (1966) * ''Seven Guns for the MacGregors'' (1966) * ''Yankee'' (1966) * ''White Comanche'' (1968) * '' The House That Screamed'' (1969) * ''Cry Chicago'' (1969) * ''Long Live the Bride and Groom'' (1970) * ''Catlow'' (1971) * ''The Light at the Edge of the World'' (1971) * ''His Name Was Holy Ghost'' (1972) * ''Horror Express'' (1972) * ''The Witches Mountain'' (1972) * '' Ricco the Mean Machine'' (1973) * ''Even Angels Eat Beans'' (1973) * ''The Girl from the Red Cabaret'' (1973) * ''The Marriage Revolution ''The Marriage Revolution'' (Spanish:''La revolución matrimonial'') is a 1974 Spanish c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gisela Hahn
Gisela Hahn (born ''Gisela Drenkhan''; 13 May 1943) is a German film actress. She has appeared in more than 40 films since 1964. She was born in Briesen. Selected filmography * ''The Merry Wives of Tyrol'' (1964) - Reni * ''In Bed by Eight'' (1965) - Schülerin * ''DM-Killer'' (1965) - Püppi * ''Neues vom Hexer'' (1965) - Susan Copperfield * ''Who Wants to Sleep?'' (1965) * ''Kommissar X – In den Klauen des goldenen Drachen'' (1966) - Stella * ''Spy Today, Die Tomorrow'' (1967) - Meisje * ''Sladky cas Kalimagdory'' (1968) - Marta * ''Revenge'' (1969) - Milly * ''La servante'' (1970) - Karin * ''They Call Me Trinity'' (1970) - Sarah * ''Gradiva'' (1970) * ''Arriva Durango... paga o muori'' (1971) - Margot * ''Tiger Gang'' (1971) - Jacky Clay * ''Quando gli uomini armarono la clava e... con le donne fecero din don'' (1971) - Sissi * '' Long Live Your Death'' (1971) - Orlowsky's Wife * ''Zambo, il dominatore della foresta'' (1972) - Grace Woodworth * ''César and Rosalie'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marilù Tolo
Marilù Tolo (born Maria Lucia Tolo; 16 January 1944) is an Italian film actress. She appeared in more than 60 films between 1960 and 1985. Life and career Born in Rome, Tolo, at a very young age, worked as an assistant of Mario Riva in the RAI variety show ''Il Musichiere''. She made her film debut at 16 years old in Alberto Lattuada's '' Sweet Deceptions''. She was also a fashion model, and a close friend of Italian stylist Valentino. Valentino said in an interview to Italian newspaper ''La Repubblica'' that Tolo was the only woman he had ever really loved. Selected filmography * ''Howlers in the Dock'' (1960) - Marilù * ''I piaceri del sabato notte'' (1960) - La sartina - l'amante di Luigi * ''Colossus and the Amazon Queen ''Colossus and the Amazon Queen'' ( it, La regina delle Amazzoni/ ''Queen of the Amazons'') is a 1960 Italian sword and sandal comedy film directed by Vittorio Sala. Cast *Rod Taylor as Pirro *Ed Fury as Glauco *Dorian Gray as Antiope *Danie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eduardo Fajardo
Eduardo Martínez Fajardo (14 August 1924 – 4 July 2019) was a Spanish film actor born in Meis (Pontevedra), Spain. He appeared in 183 films, 75 plays and made 2,000 television appearances between 1947 and 2002. Biography He was born in Meis, Pontevedra on 14 August 1924, and he raised in Haro and Santander, where he studied Bachillerato. He began his career as a voice actor from 1942 to 1946, and in 1947 he made his film debut in ''Héroes del 95'', directed by Raúl Alfonso. In the 1950s he moved to Mexico, and when he came back to Spain he appeared in spaghetti westerns such as ''Gli eroi di Fort Worth'' (1965) by Martin Herbert, and '' Django'' (1966) by Sergio Corbucci. In 2002, he founded ''Teatro sin barreras'' in Almeria, in order to help people with disabilities. He started the Almeria Walk of Fame, where he received a star on 11 April 2012 due to his intervention in '' 7th Cavalry'' and '' Django''. Personal life and death Fajardo was married four times. In M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horst Janson (actor)
Horst Janson (born 4 October 1935) is a German actor. Career Horst Janson's career started with the film '' The Buddenbrooks'' in 1959. He also featured in Helmut Käutner’s '' A Glass of Water'' (''Das Glas Wasser'', 1960). He also appeared in films such as ' (''The Cry of the Wild Geese'', 1961), ''Das Riesenrad'' (1961), and Robert Siodmak’s ''Escape from East Berlin'' (1962). Among his English-language films are the Hammer Film production ''Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter'' (1974) and ''Murphy's War'' (1971, with Peter O'Toole and Philippe Noiret). He has appeared in many other feature films, including spaghetti westerns with Franco Nero, Eli Wallach and other international productions with Roger Moore, Tony Curtis, Anthony Perkins, Charles Bronson and Robert Wagner. On television, Janson appeared on the show ''Der Bastian'' (1973). Janson has appeared in numerous other works for both film and television. Some of the TV series he worked on were: '' Salto Mortale'' (1969 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |