Page for May 18 - 24, 2013.

(Banner by Chris Casey)

The purpose of this page is to find others with a shared interest in these kinds of movies, and to keep me from getting that "No new messages" response when I check my email. So, please drop me a line with comments or questions about
Italian and Spanish action movies,
or Martial Arts fight flicks.
William Connolly

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Contents: Trivia Game (below),
Recent Viewings (below),
Unanswered Questions and Requests,
Stuff For Sale or Trade,
Stuff I'm Looking For,
Some of my favorite films,
and Links.

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Check out The Spaghetti Cinema blog.

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Brain Teasers:

Which Italian director of Westerns was once a film editor on a Steve Reeves movie?
It was Maurizio Lucidi, the editor of MORGAN I PIRATA, aka MORGAN THE PIRATE, and the director of IL MIO NOME E PECOS, aka MY NAME IS PECOS, aka DUE ONCE DI PIOMBO.

Which Italian Western ends with our hero arrested by the Cavalry officer who is sweet on our hero's sister?
No one has answered this question yet.

In which Shaw Brothers production does our hero smile gleefully at the end when the list of rebels everyone was fighting over is destroyed?
No one has answered this question yet.

In which Italian Western does our hero kill a woman by slamming her head onto the floor?
No one has answered this question yet.

Which of Chang Cheh's actors went on to do action choreography for a John Woo film?
No one has answered this question yet.

Which Italian Western did writer/director Joss Whedon say he was referencing for a scene in MARVEL'S THE AVENGERS?
No one has answered this question yet.

In which Maciste movie does our hero wear a necklace?
Charles Gilbert remembers Kirk Morris wearing a necklace in IL TRIONFO DI MACISTE, aka THE TRIUMPH OF MACISTE, aka THE TRIUMPH OF THE SON OF HERCULES. Joseph Viglietta named the film of which I was thinking: MACISTE CONTRO I MONGOLI, aka HERCULES AGAINST THE MONGOLS, in which Mark Forest wears a necklace.

In which Maciste movie does our hero get an arrow in his left shoulder?
Charles Gilbert remembers Mark Forest getting wounded in MACISTE CONTRO I MONGOLI, aka HERCULES AGAINST THE MONGOLS. Joseph Viglietta remembers Kirk Morris getting wounded in MACISTE CONTRO I CACCIATORI, aka COLOSSUS AND THE HEADHUNTERS.

In which movie does David Chiang leap out of an hospital window clutching a bed sheet to slow his fall?
No one has answered this question yet.

And now for some new brain teasers:

Which Italian is often credited as co-director of a movie only credited to Andre De Toth on U.S. release prints?
Which Italian not only was credited as the screenwriter of 12 films, but also the costumer designer of 10?
In which Italian Western does the hero keep spare bullets in his hat band?
Which Chinese movie star was born August 19, 1946?

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Name the movies from which these images come.

Richard Oravitz, Joseph Viglietta, Rick Garibaldi and George Grimes identified last week's photo of Lee Van Cleef in LA RESA DEI CONTI, aka THE BIG GUNDOWN.
Above is a new photo. Can you name from what movie it came?

Charles Gilbert, John Black and Joseph Viglietta identified last week's photo of Mark Forest in MACISTE L'EROE PIU GRANDE DEL MONDO, aka GOLIATH AND THE SINS OF BABYLON.
Above is a new photo. Can you name from what movie it came?

Charles Gilbert, Joseph.Viglietta and Richard Oravitz identified last week's photo of Lee Van Cleef and Marilou Tolo in COMMANDOS.
Above is a new photo.
Can you name from what movie it came?

Issue #77 of SPAGHETTI CINEMA is now available.
In it, Mike Eustace continues his essay on Sword and Sandal flicks, "Nights of Pleasure... Days of Strife", with a look at "The Monsters of Hercules".
James Chaney concludes his translation of the interviews conducted by Franca Faldini and Goffredo Fofi with Italian Western directors Sergio Leone, Sergio Corbucci, Duccio Tessari and many others.
Finally, Mickey Hargitay is memorialized in two articles. First is an interview by Gerard Dessere conducted in 2002. And then there is a brief biography with filmography.