Spagvemberfest 2023: Killer Caliber .32 (1967)
Director Alfonso Brescia may be better known for his space movies like Battle of the Stars, War of the Robots, Star Odyssey and War of the Planets. Or maybe giallo movies Naked Girl Murdered In the Park and Your Sweet Body to Kill. Perhaps even his Ator sequel Iron Warrior or the absolutely demented The Beast In Space. Like […]
Spagvemberfest 2023: Giunse Ringo e… fu tempo di massacro (1970)
Ringo, It’s Massacre Time (AKA Wanted Ringo, Revenge of Ringo and Reward for Ringo) is at once an Italian Western and a mystery. A series of deaths at a ranch — the victims are all foaming at the mouth — brings Mike Wood (Mickey Hargitay) to solve things. Yet he soon mysteriously disappears (he was actually the […]
Spagvemberfest 2023: Sons of Trinity (1995)
Directed by Enzo Barboni, who wrote the movie with Marco Tullio Barboni, Sons of Trinity (AKA Trinity & Babyface and Trinity & Bambino: The Legend Lives On) finds the sons of, well, Trinity and Bambino being Trinity (Heath Kizzier) and Bambino (Keith Neubert). Just like their fathers, Trinity loves women and getting in trouble as he works […]
Spagvemberfest 2023: Fury of Johnny Kid (1967)
The Campos and Mounter family have been fighting for years. Then Senor Campos (Rufino Ingles) and Bill Mounters (Luis Induni) come to an understanding. Both families will fight in the open and a judge will decide who wins. The losers must leave California. Rodrigo Campos (Peter Martell) and the rest of the family spring a […]
Spagvemberfest 2023: Dynamite Joe (1966)
Gold transfers keep getting attacked, which puts a hurting on the U.S. Mint, so they sent Joe Ford (Rik Van Nutter, Felix Leiter in Thunderball) — better known as Dynamite Joe — to make sure those bandits get taken care of. Joe’s talent is blowing people up. That’s why they call him Dynamite Joe, after all. […]
Spagvemberfest 2023: Four Bullets for Joe (1964)
Directed by Agustín Navarro and written by Fernando Galiana, Mario Guerra, Julio Porter and Vittorio Vighi, this Italian/Spanish Western comes from just before the genre took off in those countries. Frank Dalton (Paul Piaget) is out to get vengeance for his dead sister, a woman wrongfully accused of killing her husband. It’s a relatively American […]
Spagvemberfest 2023: A Pistol for 100 Coffins (1968)
Also known as El sabor del odio (The Taste of Hate), A Gun for One Hundred Graves and Vengeance, this Italian-Spanish Western was directed by Umberto Lenzi and written by Marco Leto, Vittorio Salerno and Eduardo Manzanos. Jim Slade (Peter Lee Lawrence) had it rough in the Civil War. He’s a Jehovah’s Witness, so he […]
Spagvemberfest 2023: Chino (1973)
I guess picking Chino for a month of Italian Westerns is a cheat, even if this is an Italian/Spanish production. Based on the book The Valdez Horses by Lee Hoffman, it was released in Italy as Valdez, il mezzosangue (Valdez the Half Breed). It was directed by John Sturges (The Magnificent Seven, Bad Day at Black Rock, The […]
Spagvemberfest 2023: The Unholy Four (1970)
Ciakmull L’uomo della vendetta (Ciakmull the Vengeful Man) was directed by Enzo Barboni, the director of They Call Me Trinity, Trinity Is Still My Name and Even Angels Eat Beans. He replaced Ferdinando Baldi, who was fired by the producer Manolo Bolognini because they fought over Baldi wanting Annabella Incontrera to play Sheila, the role that went to […]
Spagvemberfest 2023: Shango (1970)
Anthony Steffen, born Antonio Luiz de Teffé von Hoonholtz and also known as Antonio Luigi de Teff, was born at the Brazilian embassy in Rome in what is known as the Pamphilj Palace. His noble family came from Prussia, with his great-grandfather being the Great Baron of Teffé and his father Manoel being a Formula […]
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