Handsome star of spaghetti westerns including A Pistol for Ringo
When the spaghetti western was born in the early 1960s, some of the Italian lead actors disguised their names under American-sounding ones (though nobody was fooled). Among those competing successfully with bona fide Yanks such as Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef were Terence Hill (born Mario Girotti), Bud Spencer (Carlo Pedersoli) and Montgomery Wood, a temporary pseudonym taken by Giuliano Gemma, who has died in a car accident aged 75.
The strikingly handsome Gemma was one of the brightest stars of the once deprecated, now revered, genre. After five years in sword-and-sandal epics (also known as peplum films), usually supporting muscle men, Gemma made a name for himself (even if, initially, it wasn't his own) in two westerns directed by Duccio Tessari: A Pistol for Ringo (1965) and The Return of Ringo (1965). Their big box-office success granted Gemma stardom and...
When the spaghetti western was born in the early 1960s, some of the Italian lead actors disguised their names under American-sounding ones (though nobody was fooled). Among those competing successfully with bona fide Yanks such as Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef were Terence Hill (born Mario Girotti), Bud Spencer (Carlo Pedersoli) and Montgomery Wood, a temporary pseudonym taken by Giuliano Gemma, who has died in a car accident aged 75.
The strikingly handsome Gemma was one of the brightest stars of the once deprecated, now revered, genre. After five years in sword-and-sandal epics (also known as peplum films), usually supporting muscle men, Gemma made a name for himself (even if, initially, it wasn't his own) in two westerns directed by Duccio Tessari: A Pistol for Ringo (1965) and The Return of Ringo (1965). Their big box-office success granted Gemma stardom and...
- 10/22/2013
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
Is there anyone out there in the world who doesn’t like a Quentin Tarantino soundtrack? No need to raise your hands; just stop reading and move on to the next post if you’re one of those fun-hating mutants. This isn’t going to be big news for you.
For the legion of Tarantino fans who are still reading, get excited. Tarantino’s “Inglorious Bastards,” set to hit theaters on August 21, now has an *official* soundtrack. The listing is in French, as it comes to us via an informational Pdf posted on the Cannes Film Festival website. I’ve copied it here and filtered out the extraneous information the best that I could, but the truly curious should proceed directly to the “Inglorious Bastards” press page on the Cannes Film Festival website.
The Green Leaves of Summer
(d’après le film Alamo)
De Dimitri Tiomkin, Paul Francis Webster
The...
For the legion of Tarantino fans who are still reading, get excited. Tarantino’s “Inglorious Bastards,” set to hit theaters on August 21, now has an *official* soundtrack. The listing is in French, as it comes to us via an informational Pdf posted on the Cannes Film Festival website. I’ve copied it here and filtered out the extraneous information the best that I could, but the truly curious should proceed directly to the “Inglorious Bastards” press page on the Cannes Film Festival website.
The Green Leaves of Summer
(d’après le film Alamo)
De Dimitri Tiomkin, Paul Francis Webster
The...
- 5/15/2009
- by Adam Rosenberg
- MTV Movies Blog
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