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December 22, 2009

Pugni, dollari e spinaci

Following the release of Wanted Johnny Texas in 1967, Emimmo Salvi seemed to simply vanish off the face of the earth. What happened to him is a mystery, and the reasons for his disappearence from the Italian film industry are unknown. Considering he’d been so busy over the past decade in such a variety of roles – writer, producer, director – the abruptness with which he stopped being involved with cinema is strange.

December 22, 2009

Who was… Attilio Dottesio

Born in Brescia in 1909, his career in show business began in France, where he obtained some success first as a pop singer, then as an actor in a film by Sacha Guitry, Les Perles de la Couronne.

December 17, 2009

More MYA on DVD

Lots of Italian DVD released this week… without English options. Also, Italian horror film House of the Flesh Mannequins and a bunch of discs from MYA, including Human Cobras and The Last Decameron

December 15, 2009

Brett Halsey: Art or Instinct in the Movies

There’s a new book on Brett Halsey out from Midnight Media in the States (they’re the same guys who published The Eurospy Guide a…

December 8, 2009

Segretissimi: Guida agli spy-movie italiani anni 60

Here’s a new Italian guide to Italian Spy films by Daniele Magni. The domestic spy film genre has received almost no coverage whatsoever among the Italian film community to date, so it’s nice to see that they’re getting some attention at last.

December 4, 2009

New Petri & Rosi on DVD

At last, two Italian classics of the the early seventies – Petri’s La classe operaia va in paradiso and Rosi’s Uomini contro – are released on DVD. And they even have English language options!

December 4, 2009

Gangster venuto da Brooklyn, Un

Following Three Bullets for Ringo, Salvi decided to change tack again and return to the same present day setting that he’d previously used in FBI chiama Istanbul. Un gangster venuto da Brooklyn, though, wasn’t a spy film – even if the opening credits and soundtrack feel as though they’ve been nabbed wholesale from that genre…

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