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swing around the col and

with in our Al

Rome we can Buzz be

a and if we ain't too weary and we got

the L we can go to a picture show

Mar way

out tell your papa the producer to make

a big star out of

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me you're my scarlet and your scarlet

mascara

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Marie My Little Chubby

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Mar oh

Mar My Little Chubby Mar

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yeah we V out

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a

western yes but made in

Italy the Italian Western exploded

across the screens of Europe when an

unknown director Sergio Leon made a

little sleeper called perono de doll or

for A Fistful of Dollars and broke every

Italian box office record Sergio Leone

imported his hero Clint Eastwood the

American TV star who was then unknown in

Europe to sell the Italian public every

effort was made to pass it off as the

authentic Hollywood product names of

Italian actors were changed and even

Serio Leon became Bob Robertson but

fistful was a Smash Hit so Bob Robertson

became Sergio Leone again and Clint

Eastwood well Rowdy y wasn't rowy Ates

noo in fact Clint starred in the sequel

for a few dollars more with Le van CLE

an even bigger

success well that set the trend dollar

it seemed was the magic word so all the

films had Dollar in their titles

then somebody discovered Ringo changed

Juliana gemma's name to Montgomery wood

and made a bundle on a yarn called a

pistol for Ringo now Ringo was the magic

word so Italians went to see Ringo the

face of Revenge with Anthony

Stefan Ringo of Nebraska with Ken

Clark a woman for Ringo with Shan Flynn

kill Johnny Ringo with Brett Hy and

finally a coffin for Ringo with Mr X

Tarzan Lex

Barker about this time Sergio Leone made

his third winner The Good the Bad and

the Ugly to Clint Eastwood and Lee Van

CLE he added another American Eli wallik

by now titles were going in Wild

directions Gringo throw the gun

away run man run stranger make the sign

of the

cross three crosses not to

die chrysanthemums for a load of

carrying his name screamed

vandetta if you meet sartana pray for

your death kill them all and come back

alone

excuse me are you the head stunt

man I'm the director

here sorry oh what is the title of this

film The Italian title is v v espar a

western what's your name Enzo G Castell

tell me why are Western so popular in

Italy westerns are popular everywhere

some of their first films made were

westerns in Italy there's no doubt that

it was Ser Leon and the big success of

for A Fistful of Dollars that opened the

road to the westerns made in

Europe I would say it is the public who

decides on the success of a film or a

kind of film and the public finds in

westerns an escape from its its daily

problems and

worries there have been so many serious

heavy difficult films in recent years

that the public is tired of trying to

understand them me too the Western is

different The Spectator sits and is just

amused in a world of fantasy with horses

rides fights and

chases I guess that it is directed at

the child that remains in most of

Uso okay follow him

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panoramic okay stop that's

know Enzo yeah how many westerns have

you directed so far only four but very

very good and what were you doing before

making

Western the usual thing assistant

director I'm very thankful to the

Western because they gave me my first

chance to direct you see I'm 29 years

old which I think is pretty young for a

director there's such a demand for

Western that they need many directors

and that always gives a chance to the

young ones if it were not for the

Western I would probably still be an

assistant Italian westerns are noted for

their scenes of violence what about your

films I think that violence has gone a

bit out of

fashion the first Italian westerns had

scenes with broken heads broken limbs

torture much

blood yes it made a strong impression on

this Spectators had such effects they

cannot be repeated too often or well

they lose their

punch

personally I am not able to shoot these

scenes sometimes I would like to they

fascinate me but I cannot my style see

is is much lighter

My Heroes exchange punches but I never

do show blood it would interfere with

the movement and with the humor I like

to give to my film Enzo besides

Western's what other kind of films would

you like to do action films from each

enem is motion moving pictures it must

move more than the type of film it is

the action really that counts I

personally like making fast moving films

and adding a little

fun I believe the spectator should taken

Along by the speed of the action but

smile while looking at

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it still westerns are westerns they all

have horses good guys and guns here at

chinita are shelves of guns and some so

original they've never been west of the

Tyber

River tell me who is using these guns

after this moment six westers are using

our guns and

arms this is one of them this revolver

you see here was LE and Cliff in the

film for a few dollars more but besides

revolvers what other guns do you have I

have everything rifles mostly Civil War

Winchesters 73

repeaters all these have been made by

Italian

Craftsmen they are exactly like the

originals and they all can be fired an

expert could not tell them apart from

the real weapon part of my job is

special

effects these compressed air gun fires a

pellet at the same time the actors shoot

a

blank the pellet breaks the

window now for the good guy shiny boots

laundered Levis crisply iron shirt fresh

shave and those dark Italian eyes uh-oh

they're blue well Clint Eastwood started

the whole bit after all

but you can't be sure the hero will win

in the end in some Italian westerns the

good guy

loses villains are different

too with a Savage taste for torture the

Italian bad guy does not kill for profit

only but for the violent and sadistic

pleasure he gets out of it

as for the girl well she's not very

important she's often Mexican young and

well

constructed usually being raped in front

of the

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camera the Western is also having a big

influence on Roman

life let's follow this daytime Cowboy to

the bunk house the Western Club where

and Wayne hold forth every

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night

way yes

I'm

alive a bounty hunter found me and to

gun me down 10,000 was the price of my

reward

now let me tell you buddy he ain't

around today now some might say he

played a losing card now I'm

rning keep there's no other way

to yes I'm

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running alive

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well I'm on my way to the end day the

better way found I'll do myk

this High Ground I'm I'm

ground golden can't remain on this Earth

I'm found for High Ground yes I'm I'm

found

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foring

golden we made on this Earth

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I'm ground I'm

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golden the Western fed has also spread

into high

fashion here in a church on the Palatine

Hill in the heart of

Rome we observe Italy's first first

western

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wedding I wonder if these two met in the

bunk house or maybe on a western movie

set

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Italy has always been known for its

Scenic

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Beauty ideal setting for

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honeymoon

vacation or skiing

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hey listen this is the road to the ski

lift isn't it sorry I don't know no no

I'm just making a Wesson here

man doing so many westerns Italian

filmmakers looked for new

twists like a Western in the

snow after all doesn't it snow in

Montana this brings up new problems like

horses who don't like snow

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and if it's too rough for a camera car

well get a camera horse

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if horses don't like the

snow neither do technicians or actors in

Sub-Zero

temperature but Italian Cowboys no ways

to cope with the weather

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of course snow on the mountains calls

for snow on the

set would you believe 26 tons of shaving

cream these are only a few of the

problems director Sergio Cori had to

solve Sergio kuchi you are directing

your seventh Italian Western the great

silence what do you think is the reason

for the success of this type of film uh

success

ah The Westerns uh the main reason I

believe is that well we assume or or

recreate the atmosphere of our time A

Time Of Violence violence without reason

and often just for the sake of violence

uh it's the same I think the main reason

for the success of the films of James

Bond in this film Mr kuchi have you much

death and

violence uh well you probably know that

I am a Roman and at home in some class

is presumed to be the skeleton of Niro

who is proving to be a good example for

me yes I am killing a lot of people I

have killed more people than near and

cigola but each time it's more difficult

for me to find a new method of murder

that could be

used uh in each film I have used

revolvers and Winchesters uh I have

killed with dynamite with gas with fire

with uh I cut many things I have cut

ears and uh made my characters eat their

own ears in this film I cut thumbs I

don't make my actors eat them because

because they refused unfortunately I

killed too many people I would like to

make a film like I did uh much earlier

like them I made when I was beginning my

people usually Leed but when I wasn't

making questions I wouldn't shoot

anybody

now in this film I noticed that you're

not recording any direct sound how do

you arrange this with your actors uh

Speech usually in westerns of minor

importance because we use every

nationality French Mexican American it

is often better for the actors to count

uh than to speak for example the

Frenchman would say and the American

says uh one that means yes but it could

mean anything it's unimportant that's

why I hate westerns after this Mr Mr

kabuchi what films will you do a western

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naturally from the snowbound streets of

a western C battle toown to the Placid

Roman Countryside is a long

step but the international success of

Italian westerns which at first were

taken lightly is drawing well-known

actors from all over the world many of

them have come from America others from

Germany England Australia Spain

Scandinavia and

yes even Japan

from France has come one of its best

known

actors Jean Louie trom do you enjoy

doing a

western it is fun I enjoy it this is one

of the tricks of the western you start

with your head down then you catch a ray

of light under the Hat then down with

your head and up again like this since

you're known primarily as a romantic

actor don't you find it strange to play

in a western oh

romantic not so much I have done a lot

of films which are more serious or

intellectual but it's fun to be in a

film which is the complete opposite of

what I've been doing as the hero do you

kill many

people yes maybe 30 in the first two

minutes of the film I've already killed

four professional Killers who Ambush me

somehow I get them before they get me it

goes on that way until I kill about 40

what part do you play

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I play the part of a

mute the audience won't realize it

because during the first two-thirds of

the film there's no reason for him to

speak I like it because in most westerns

they talk too much and say nothing is it

an easy

part yes but not

physically it's difficult for me because

I'm basically clumsy I hurtt myself all

the time like when I draw my gun did you

have to practice a

lot oh have I in the film every time I

draw my gun I have to take my glove

off so at home I used to practice it

with a sock in my

hand and a long stemmed artichoke in my

pocket and I used to go through the

motions taking off the sock reaching for

the AR choke and

here an Italian stuntman demonstrates

the technique of Smashing through a

door in Italian Western's death is quick

for an extra a little longer for an

actor a feature player dies

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slowly but for a star it's a show in

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itself

action go ahead hold

it watch

out your hands are hurting bad jise

very bad but wait you can't now you feel

that everything is sleeping away it's

your life that's

going careful look again now reach you

for your gun gone try to make it fast

try go ahead go grab it

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now Italian

stuntman never

mind Sergio solima am I disturbing you

no what are you doing

now I was just working on the editing of

my latest Western Cory wak Cori Mr

solima you're known as the intellectual

of the Italian Cinema how is it that

you're making Western

well for one thing the Western has

always appealed to intellectuals as we

know to most

Italians also it gives me the

possibility of using a fable that is a

very popular story which can be

understood by any public to express

myself I can describe characters and

present themes dealing with the great

problems of our times and various

controversial questions thank you may I

see what you're editing sure by all

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means now this character we see

here we call him

cucho which means knife in

Mexican he is an illiterate Indian who

doesn't even know how to use a gun

so he uses a

knife and he's good with

it but for him the knife is a defensive

weapon only in exceptional

cases does it become a weapon of

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attack this isn't the right this and for

an KN

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fight you chose the knife I chose the

gun

take a step

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forward another

two is that okay

coio A bit more

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so your hero is a Mexican

Indian yes I believe the time has come

to draw a film hero from the people of

the underdeveloped countries of the

third world so to speak well if he

represents the underdeveloped countries

what about the white man what does he

stand for the technicians the

villain in a way yes but it's not as

simple as all

that it's just that once in a while in

the face of super

technology super

efficiency the one who should get the

public sympathy is the man who is

human who is simple but resourceful

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