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Riccardo Pizzuti
Riccardo Pizzuti (born 28 May 1934) is an Italian actor and stuntman. He is known for playing the role of gunfighter Morton Clayton in the 1972 film ''Man of the East''. Pizzuti appeared in ''They Call Me Trinity'', and its sequel ''Trinity Is Still My Name''. He often appeared in films featuring the actors Terence Hill and Bud Spencer, usually cast as a villain. He has also been credited as Rick Piper and Peter Whiteman. Partial filmography * '' The Vengeance of Ursus'' (1961) - Fighter (uncredited) * ''Agenti Segreti Contro: I tre nemici'' (1962) - Train Thug (uncredited) * ''The Secret Mark of D'Artagnan'' (1962) - Officer (uncredited) * ''A Queen for Caesar'' (1962) - Soldier (uncredited) * ''D'Artagnan contro i 3 moschettieri'' (1963) - Tavern Fight Soldier (uncredited) * '' The Black Duke'' (1963) - Soldier (uncredited) * ''Spartacus and the Ten Gladiators'' (1964) - Roman Senator and Commander (uncredited) * ''Revenge of The Gladiators'' (1964) - Gladiator (uncredited) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cetraro
Cetraro (Northern Calabrian, Calabrian: ) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of southern Italy. Waste dumping The 'Ndrangheta, an Italy, Italian mafia syndicate, has been accused by pentito Francesco Fonti, a former member of 'Ndrangheta, of sinking at least 30 ships loaded with toxic waste, much of it radioactive. In 2005, Fonti revealed the conspiracy in the news magazine L'espresso. His statements led to widespread investigations into the radioactive waste disposal rackets, involving Giorgio Comerio and his disposal company, the Odm (Oceanic Disposal Management).Parla un boss: Così lo Stato pagava la 'ndrangheta per smaltire i rifiuti tossici by Riccardo Bocca, L’Espresso, August 5, 2005 According ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fire Over Rome
''Fire Over Rome'' ( it, Il incendio di Roma) is a 1965 Italian ''peplum'' film directed by Guido Malatesta. Plot After successfully campaigning in Gaul for several years, Consul Marcus Valerius arrived back in Rome with his legion. He and his men were looking forward to celebrating their return with their families and friends. The fearless warrior expected his Emperor to be pleased with his conquests, but Nero showed little interest. Other priorities were far more important. Nero ordered Marcus to assist Menecrate, the hated leader of the Praetorian Guards, in cleansing the city of its Christian presence but he refused and resigned as Consul in protest. He was immediately sentenced to death and his legion disbanded. Marcus Valerius is a valiant soldier and the killing of innocent people goes against all his principles. The former hero is now the hunted. Cast * Lang Jeffries as Marcus Valerius * Cristina Gaioni as Giulia * Moira Orfei as Poppaea * Mario Feliciani as Seneca * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garter Colt
''Garter Colt'' (''Giarrettiera Colt'') is a 1968 Italian spaghetti Western directed by Gian Andrea Rocco. It is one of the rare Italo-Westerns with a woman as lead character and was shot in Sardinia at a town named San Salvatore di Sinis. Plot At the Mexico–United States border, a brave young woman defends herself from the attack of the fearsome bandit, "Red", mastering a gun and the game of poker. Falling in love with a young Frenchman, he asks her to give up gambling and start a quiet and normal life, but when the young man is abducted by "Red", she is determined to seek revenge. Cast * Nicoletta Machiavelli as Lulu, - Giarrettiera Colt * Claudio Camaso (Claudio Volonté) as Red * Marisa Solinas as Rosie * Yorgo Voyagis Yorgo Voyagis ( el, Γιώργος Βογιατζής, Giorgos Vogiadzis ; born 6 December 1945) is a Greek actor. Career as an actor Voyagis' film debut was in Michael Cacoyannis's ''Zorba the Greek'' (1964). He reappeared three years later in ... as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vengeance (1968 Film)
Vengeance ( it, Joko - Invoca Dio... e muori, german: Fünf blutige Stricke) is a 1968 Spaghetti Western film written and directed by Anthony Dawson. It starred Richard Harrison, Mariangela Giordano and Luciano Pigozzi. Plot Joko, Richie, Domingo and Mendoza hatch a plan to steal gold from bandits. Domingo, however, betrays them by revealing the attempted theft to the bandits. Joko, Ricky and Mendoza are thus discovered during the robbery: Mendoza dies while trying to cover the escape of his friends. Ricky escapes with the gold but is captured by 5 bandits and tortured in an attempt to be revealed where he was to meet with Joko. When the bandits understand that Ricky won't speak, they dismember him by tying his limbs with ropes to horses. Joko thus begins his personal war to avenge his dead comrades and first kills Domingo, the traitor, and then sets off in search of the 5 bandits who killed Ricky: to each bandit, before killing him, Joko throws a piece of bloodied rope collecte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Any Gun Can Play
''Any Gun Can Play'' ( it, Vado... l'ammazzo e torno) is a 1967 spaghetti Western starring Gilbert Roland, Edd Byrnes Edward Byrne Breitenberger (July 30, 1932 – January 8, 2020), known professionally as Edd Byrnes, was an American actor, best known for his starring role in the television series ''77 Sunset Strip.'' He also was featured in the 1978 film '' Gre ... and George Hilton. The film is directed by Enzo G. Castellari. The film is about a group of cowboys searching for gold, double-leading to double crosses as they continually change allegiances and get the upper hand only to be thwarted by fellow outlaws, mysterious insurance investigators and each other. Cast Release ''Any Gun Can Play'' was released in Italy in 1967. The film has also been released under the English titles ''Go Kill and Come Back'' and ''Blood River''. References Sources * External links * 1967 films 1967 Western (genre) films Spaghetti Western films 1960s Italian-language films E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wanted (1967 Film)
''Wanted'' is a 1967 Italian Western film directed by Giorgio Ferroni and starring Giuliano Gemma, Teresa Gimpera, and Nello Pazzafini. Gemma made two more westerns directed by Ferroni, with similar plots, where his character likewise carried the first name "Gary".Fridlund, Bert: ''The Spaghetti Western. A Thematic Analysis''. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company Inc., 2006 pp. 113-8. Plot Gary Ryan, a local sheriff (Giuliano Gemma) is unjustly accused of murder in a small town and forced to flee. He gets rid of his enemies one by one while he tries to prove his innocence. Cast *Giuliano Gemma as Gary Ryan *Germán Cobos as Martin Heywood *Teresa Gimpera as Evelyn *Serge Marquand as Fred Lloyd *Daniele Vargas as Mayor Samuel "Gold" Goldensberg *Gia Sandri as Cheryl *Nello Pazzafini as Father Carmelo *Benito Stefanelli as Bob Baker *Carlo Hintermann as Judge Anderson *Tullio Altamura as Ellis *Riccardo Pizzuti as Mathias *Franco Balducci as Cuzack Release '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Up The MacGregors!
''Up the MacGregors!'' ( it, 7 donne per i MacGregor, link=no, a Technicolor film in Techniscope also known as ''7 Women for the MacGregors'') is a List of Italian films of 1967, 1967 Cinema of Italy, Italian spaghetti Western directed by Franco Giraldi (here credited as Frank Garfield). It is the immediate sequel of ''Seven Guns for the MacGregors'', still directed by Giraldi. The film has the same cast as its predecessor except for Manuel Zarzo and Robert Woods (actor), Robert Woods, who refused the role due to his conflicts with the leading actress Agata Flori, the wife of producer Dario Sabatello. Plot summary The elder MacGregors wakes up in the middle of the night to take out a chest of gold ingots and coins from the hiding place and bury it outside their house while being secretly watched by a bandit spy. On the day of the engagement party between Gregor MacGregor and Rosita Carson the bandit Maldonado, with his gang, came and robbed the MacGregors of their gold which the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Long Days Of Vengeance
''Long Days of Vengeance'' ( it, I lunghi giorni della vendetta is a 1967 Western film directed by Florestano Vancini. It is the only western directed by Vancini, here credited as Stan Vance. The film is a Spaghetti Western version of Alexandre Dumas' novel ''The Count of Monte Cristo''. Plot Ted Barnett escapes from prison and returns to his home town to prove that he did not commit murder and also find the man who murdered his father. To do this he must disclose the respected landowner Cobb as a smuggler. Cast * Giuliano Gemma as Ted Barnett *Francisco Rabal as Sheriff Douglas *Gabriella Giorgelli as Dulcie *Conrado San Martín as Cobb *Nieves Navarro as Dolly * Doro Corrà as Morgan *Milo Quesada as Gomez Release ''Long Days of Vengeance'' was released in 1967. It has also been released as ''The Deadliest Gun Fight''. Reception In his investigation of narrative structures in Spaghetti Western films, Fridlund groups this film with some other successful westerns where the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blood At Sundown
''Blood at Sundown'' ( it, 1000 dollari sul nero, lit=1000 dollars on the black) is a Spaghetti Western film directed by Alberto Cardone. The picture marks the first appearance of the character Sartana, played by Gianni Garko. It is not, however considered an "official" Sartana film. Plot Johnny Liston heads back to his hometown after 12 years in jail, during which time his ruthless brother Sartana (Garko) has taken over control of the town. Johnny is determined to battle Sartana to bring justice. Cast *Anthony Steffen as Johnny Liston *Gianni Garko as Sartana Liston (as John Garko) *Erika Blanc as Joselita Rogers *Carlo D'Angelo as Judge Waldorf (as Charles of Angel) *Sieghardt Rupp as Ralph *Roberto Miali as Jerry Holt (as Jerry Wilson) *Carla Calò as Rhonda Liston (as Carrol Brown) * Angelica Ott as Mary * Daniela Igliozzi as Manuela Holt *Franco Fantasia as Sheriff *Gianni Solaro as Forrester *Chris Howland as Doodle Kramer * Gino Marturano as Man in bar *Sal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Django Shoots First
''Django Shoots First'' ( it, Django spara per primo) is an Italian Spaghetti Western film directed by Alberto De Martino. Plot Ringo, a bounty hunter, has killed the father of Glenn Garvin (Glenn Saxson) to collect a bounty. Glenn kills Ringo and then takes his father's body to town to collect the bounty himself. There he befriends Gordon (Fernando Sancho in city clothes and a bowler hat instead of his usual Mexican bandit outfit), who tells Glenn that he stands to inherit half of everything in town, which his father had owned in partnership with Ken Cluster. Cluster's henchman Ward and his men try and fail to kill Glenn, so Cluster robs his own bank and frames Glenn for murder. Glenn escapes and is taken in by Cluster's wife, Jessica, who wants Glenn to kill her husband. However, it turns out that Jessica is also married to a stranger, Doc (Alberto Lupo), who had helped Glenn earlier. Jessica escapes to Ward, whom she convinces that Cluster wants him to stash the bank robbery ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sugar Colt
''Sugar Colt'' is a 1966 Italian and Spanish Spaghetti Western directed by Franco Giraldi, produced by Franco Cittadini and Stenio Fiorentini, written by Sandro Continenza, Augusto Finocchi, Giuseppe Mangione and Fernando Di Leo, composed by Luis Enríquez Bacalov, filmed by Alejandro Ulloa and starred by Jack Betts, Joaquín Parra, Soledad Miranda, Georges Rigaud, Antonio Padilla, Giuliano Raffaelli and Hunt Powers. It is the Giraldi's second film after ''Seven Guns for the MacGregors''. The film represents the cinematographical debut for Jack Betts, here credited as Hunt Powers, and it is also Erno Crisa's last film. Plot Rocco – also called the man with two faces – is visited by Pinkerton, who wants him to investigate the disappearance, and possible kidnapping, of some soldiers. Rocco declines, as he has a good life teaching women self-defence. When Pinkerton is assassinated, Rocco changes his mind and goes to Snake Valley disguised as a doctor. He uses narcotic gas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fort Yuma Gold
''Fort Yuma Gold'' ( it, Per pochi dollari ancora, lit=For a Few Extra Dollars) is a 1966 Italian/Spanish/French international co-production Spaghetti Western film directed by Giorgio Ferroni. Plot Confederate Major Sanders (Jacques Sernas), continues fighting the North after the conclusion of the American Civil War. Former Rebel Gary Diamond ( Giuliano Gemma), now a guide, leads a pair of Union soldiers to obstruct Sanders before he can pull off a raid on Fort Yuma. However the others are unaware that Diamond knows that one of the Union officers is actually Sanders' spy. More complications ensue, pairing Diamond with the aptly named saloon-girl Connie Breastful (Sophie Daumier). Later Diamond is found to be a traitor and is tortured severely before Sanders' plot is foiled. Cast * Giuliano Gemma (as Montgomery Wood) as Gary Diamond *Jacques Sernas as Maj. Sanders *Dan Vadis as Nelson Riggs *Sophie Daumier as Connie Breastfull *Nello Pazzafini (as Red Carter) as Sgt. Brian Pit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |