Matt Blake – Page 57 – The Wild Eye

July 16, 2010

Primitive Love

Primitive Love is a bizarre combination of slapstick comedy and mondo movie, made in 1964 by the late Luigi Scattini and starring Jayne Mansfield

July 15, 2010

R.I.P. Luigi Scattini

Director Luigi Scattini has apparently died.

July 12, 2010

Edith Peters

Edith Peters was one of the many black performers who complemented their careers in the popular nightclubs and revues of the time with the occassional bit part roles on screen.

July 9, 2010

Butterfly Zone – Il Senso della Farfalla

Here’s a new Italian film that looks like it could be of interest. It’s just come out in Italy this week, and is being shown in 20 cinemas, not a huge amount, but not unusually small for domestic product that isn’t a comedy.

July 8, 2010

Ottaviano Dell’Acqua on the web

I’d never seen this before, but Ottaviano Dell’Acqua, aka Richard Raymond, one of the famous Dell’Acqua family of cinecitta stuntmen and a fixture of…

July 2, 2010

The producers: Ottavio Poggi

Ottavio Poggi may not be a name that you are familiar with. There’s certainly very little biographical information about him anywhere. But he was actually one of a band of little known – but very important – producers who fuelled the whole explosion in the Italian film industry in the 1950s and 60s.

June 18, 2010

Mexican Slayride

This little-known spy film Mexican Slayride was financed by three important production companies in the world of low-budget cinema during the late 1960s.