Roberto Poppi, who you might know as the co-editor or the invaluable Gremese Dizionario del cinema Italiano, is posting some interesting nuggets on the Nocturno forum, which I’ll attempt to translate and repost here… This one is from an interview with Ferdinando Baldi regarding Il massacro della foresta nero (Massacre in the Black Forest)
“I shot it in Yugoslavia because Ergas put some money into it… There was Cameron Mitchell, who wasn’t able to live without having a woman every day (laughs). When we were filming, a little way away there was this house, and he met a married woman there and began seeing her. One night he was with her when her husband arrived and threw him out of the window in his underwear, breaking his leg. So I ended up making the film using close ups and long shots.”
