Category: Spagvemberfest

Jim Latimore has been battling the Gonzales brothers and when he marries their cousin Rosaria (Mónica Randall, The Witches Mountain), things get even worse. They hire El Matanza (Antonio Molino Rojo) to kill him and take his son to be raised as one of the Gonzales family. Rosaria is assaulted and barely survives. Three years later, Tex […]

Milklos “Mickey” Hargitay left Hungary in 1947 to get out of being drafted into military service by the Soviet Union. He settled in Cleveland, where he worked as a plumber and carpenter. Can you imagine Hargitay coming to your house to fix your toilet? He’d already been in an acrobatic act with his brothers, a […]

Also known as The Stranger and the Gunfighter, Là dove non batte il sole (Where the Sun Doesn’t Shine) and El kárate, el Colt y el impostor (Karate, Colt and the Imposter), Blood Money comes from the era where Shaw Brothers was working on other genre mash-ups as part of international co-productions like Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires. […]

…continuavano a chiamarlo Trinità (They Still Called Him Trinity) is a sequel to, you knew it, They Call Me Trinity and was, for some time, the biggest Italian movie of all time. It starts by reminding us that Bambino (Bud Spencer) and Trinity (Terence Hill) are as much the same as they are different. Bambino and Trinity […]

According to Peter Bogdanovich, the original title for this movie — Duck, You Sucker! — was meant by Leone as a close translation of the Italian title Giù la testa, coglione! which means Duck your head, balls! For some reason, Leone thought that this was a common phrase in America. That’s why this is also […]

The Spaghetti Western Database is my guide when I watch these movies and they say this about They Call Me Trinity: “…often described as the film that destroyed the spaghetti western and saved the Italian movie industry. In Italy the movie even linguistically marks the ending of an era: whereas the diehard westerns were called spaghetti […]

Also known as Kill and Pray, this comes from director Carlo Lizzani, who also made Un Fiume di Dollari. It starts with a massacre of Mexican people as they are betrayed aby Confederate soldiers under the command of Ferguson (Mark Damon). Only a young boy survives, running into the desert where he is raised by Father Jeremy […]