To answer these trivia questions, please email me at scinema@earthlink.net.
Brain Teasers:
Which Iranian actor appeared in Italian sword and sandal movie?
Angel Rivera, George Grimes and Bertrand van Wonterghem knew that it was Iloosh Khoshabe, aka Rod Flash, aka Richard Lloyd.
Which Spanish actor, who appeared in Westerns, was born in 1924 and died in Mexico in 2019?
Angel Rivera, Bertrand van Wonterghem, and George Grimes and Rick Garibaldi knew that it was Eduardo Fajardo.
Which Spanish actor appeared in over 30 Westerns but never in a film directed by Sergio Leone?
Angel Rivera, Bertrand van Wonterghem and Rick Garibaldi knew that it was Eduardo Fajardo.
George Grimes that the same could be said about Fernando Sancho.
And now for some new brain teasers:
Which Spanish actor, who made both Westerns and Sword & Sandal movies, was born in 1916 and died in 1990?
Which Spanish actor, who made both Westerns and Sword & Sandal movies, was born in 1903 and died in 1982?
In what movie did Gerard Tichy play Jeffrey Hunter's step father?
Name the movies from which these images came.
George Grimes and Bertrand van Wonterghem identified last week's photo of Eduardo Fajardo in UN UOMO CHIAMATO APOCALISSE JOE, aka APOCALYPSE JOE.
Above is a new photo.
Can you name from what movie it came?
Bertrand van Wonterghem and George Grimes identified last week's frame grab of Mario Novelli, Richard Lloyd and Anthony Steffen in GLI INVINCIBILI FRATELLI MACISTE, aka THE INVINCIBLE MACISTE BROTHERS.
Above is a new photo.
Can you name from what movie it came?
Angel Rivera, George Grimes and Bertrand van Wonterghem identified last week's photo of Stuart Whitman, Tisa Farrow and John Saxon in UNA MAGNUM SPECIAL PER TONY SAITTA, aka STRANGE SHADOWS IN AN EMPTY ROOM.
Above is a new photo.
Can you name from what movie it came?
George Grimes identified last week's frame grab from ZU WARRIORS FROM THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN.
Above is a new photo.
Can you identify from what movie it came?
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I am interested in knowing what movies you have watched and what you enjoyed or not. So please send me an email at scinema@earthlink.net if you'd like to share. Here's what I watched last week:
I was in Yellowstone National Park all last week and saw nothing but a few episodes of Younger and The Last of Us.
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Angel Rivera Highly enjoyed:
"SCARLET STREET" (1945)
A film noir classic with the same director and cast as in "The Woman in the Window" (1944); this time related more seriously. Edward G. Robinson plays a mild mannered and hen pecked man who paints as a hobby. Enter the "femme fatale", the very attractive Joan Bennett as a "man trap", who at the suggestion of her boyfriend, played by the ever slick Dan Duryea, hustles Robinson, who Bennett believes is a rich painter, (Because she met him in New York's Greenwich Village and he was wearing a tuxedo) Robinson starving for attention and believing Bennett's act, steals money for Bennett. The two string Robinson along until he confronts Bennett and sees what a fool he has been made into. Robinson enacts his revenge with drastic results for all involved. Definitely worth viewing. (And in my case re-viewing.)
"THE ROCKETEER" (1991)
Still a lot of fun and one of the best comic book to screen adaptations ever; at least in my opinion. Using Dave Stevens "Rocketeer" comic book as inspiration, Disney did a fine job of bringing the strip to life. Great period piece reconstruction and an able cast: beginning with future Bond star, Timothy Dalton, as a villain inspired by the gossip about Errol Flynn being a Nazi spy to Terry O'Quinn as Howard Hughes; along with Alan Arkin and Paul Sorvino. Billy Campbell is our hero, Cliff Secord, the Rocketeer looking like he stepped off the comic book page and a young Jennifer Connelly. While she is a G-rated stand-in for the comic book's Betty, (inspired by fifties model extraordinaire, Bettie Page)., she has the attractive innocence of a thirties fresh faced debutante. The action is well done. Why this film didn't do better at the box office is still a mystery to me. I loved the original comic book and this film fairly acquits itself as a well done adaptation. (At least for me.) With a great score with themes that have been used in other films.
A film noir classic with the same director and cast as in "The Woman in the Window" (1944); this time related more seriously. Edward G. Robinson plays a mild mannered and hen pecked man who paints as a hobby. Enter the "femme fatale", the very attractive Joan Bennett as a "man trap", who at the suggestion of her boyfriend, played by the ever slick Dan Duryea, hustles Robinson, who Bennett believes is a rich painter, (Because she met him in New York's Greenwich Village and he was wearing a tuxedo) Robinson starving for attention and believing Bennett's act, steals money for Bennett. The two string Robinson along until he confronts Bennett and sees what a fool he has been made into. Robinson enacts his revenge with drastic results for all involved. Definitely worth viewing. (And in my case re-viewing.)
"THE ROCKETEER" (1991)
Still a lot of fun and one of the best comic book to screen adaptations ever; at least in my opinion. Using Dave Stevens "Rocketeer" comic book as inspiration, Disney did a fine job of bringing the strip to life. Great period piece reconstruction and an able cast: beginning with future Bond star, Timothy Dalton, as a villain inspired by the gossip about Errol Flynn being a Nazi spy to Terry O'Quinn as Howard Hughes; along with Alan Arkin and Paul Sorvino. Billy Campbell is our hero, Cliff Secord, the Rocketeer looking like he stepped off the comic book page and a young Jennifer Connelly. While she is a G-rated stand-in for the comic book's Betty, (inspired by fifties model extraordinaire, Bettie Page)., she has the attractive innocence of a thirties fresh faced debutante. The action is well done. Why this film didn't do better at the box office is still a mystery to me. I loved the original comic book and this film fairly acquits itself as a well done adaptation. (At least for me.) With a great score with themes that have been used in other films.
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David Deal enjoyed:
ROAD TO SALINA (71) - Robert Walker Jr takes the road to Salina and stumbles into a gas station/roadhouse run by Rita Hayworth. She immediately identifies him as her runaway son and he plays along. Then his "sister" (Mimsy Farmer) appears and exhibits an unhealthy attraction to him. Georges Lautner's psychological mysterious noir shares a vague, dreamy uncertainty similar to The Swimming Pool (Jacques Deray). The odd, desolate Canary Island locations remove much of this tale from a tangible reality but that's the point. The soundtrack betrays the time period but is not too distracting. Curious and not unwelcome.
THE LAST TOMAHAWK (65)
NAKED SPUR (53)
THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES (76)
GET CARTER (71)
20 MILLION MILES TO EARTH (57)
PLAGUE OF THE ZOMBIES (66)
MALCOLM X (92)
THE SON OF DRACULA (43) - The only movie that could follow Malcolm X.
Mildly enjoyed:
PLANETS AGAINST US (61)
STARBLACK (66) - AKA Johnny Colt. A masked avenger is at work in a small town, taking out the bad element. A bit of a schizophrenic spaghetti western; it apes the classic American style but ups the brutality quotient. And it's no secret that Robert Woods, returning to his hometown after many years, has something to do with it all. Could have been better.
SCIMITARRA DEL SARACENO (59) - AKA The Pirate and the Slave Girl. Pirate Lex Barker manages to sink the governor's ship, and steal his daughter along with some vital war documents. Captain Massimo Serato, mortgaged to the hilt, offers to return both to the governor to erase his debts. Chelo Alonso, who rules a community in the ruins of a desert oasis, comes between Lex and Massimo. Mid-budget adventure shot in the Ferrania Color process that provides a bright and slightly surreal palette. Plenty of action and intrigue.
THE STEEL TRAP (52)
DEATH OCCURRED LAST NIGHT (70)
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Bertrand van Wonterghem Enjoyed:
Whisperig Smith (1947, Leslie Fenton)
Kelly's heroes (1970, Brian G. Hutton)
Outlaw women (1952, Sam Newfield)
The avengers – episode “The house that Jack built” (1966, Don Leaver)
Mildly enjoyed:
Oblivion, episode 2 (1996, Sam Irvin)
The day the world ended (2001, Terence Gross)
Did not enjoy:
The chairman (1969, J. Lee Thompson)
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