Gruesome Magazine By Tony Timpone March 21, 2024 Two genres collide (bloodily!) in A Town Called Purgatory, the new film from the team behind the award-winning 2017 festival fave The Night Watchmen, and Gruesome just landed this exclusive clip. A horror western, A Town Called Purgatory will make its U.S. premiere this Saturday at New Jersey’s Garden State Film Festival with cast and crew attending. “When COVID-19 had shut down the world in 2020, it was the right time to develop a script,” recalls A Town Called Purgatory’swriter, producer, and star Dan De Luca, who wore the same production hats ..read more

  Agostino de Simone was an Italian supporting and character actor. He was born in Fisciano, Salerno, Italy on August 13, 1923. He only appeared in a dozen films from 1966 to 1982. Other than that no biographical details are currently known other than he died in Rome on March 6, 2001 at the age of 77. Agostino appeared in four of the five Spaghetti westerns listed below. The fifth film was never made. de SIMONE, Agostino [8/13/1923, Fisciano, Salerno, Italy – 3/6/2001, Rome, Lazio, Italy] – film actor. Kill Johnny Ringo – 1966 (Al) Wanted Johnny Texas – 1967 (Major Weston) A Gunman Calle ..read more

[These daily posts will cover little known actors or people that have appeared in more recent films and TV series. Various degrees of information that I was able to find will be given and anything that you can add would be appreciated.] Eugène Bréon was a French silent film actor who appeared in only one film as far as I can determine and that was a Joe Hamman western in the role of one of the suitors of the heroin Berthe Dagmar in 1912’s “Le révolver matrimonial” (Marriage with a Revolver). Most likely Bréon was a stage actor. No biographical information about him can be found. BREON, Eugène ..read more

As we know most of the Euro-westerns were co-productions from Italy, Spain, Germany and France which incorporated British and American actors to gain a worldwide audience. The films were shot silent and then dubbed into the various languages where they were sold for distribution. That means Italian, Spanish, German, French and English voice actors were hired to dub the films. Even actors from the countries where the film was to be shown were often dubbed by voice actors for various reasons such as the actors were already busy making another film, they wanted to be paid additional salaries for ..read more

Leslie French (actror) would have been 120 today but died in 1999. Ivor Montagu (writer) would have been 120 today but died in 1984. Jozef Adamovic (actor) would have been 85 today but died in 2013. Franca De Stratis (actress) would have been 85 today but died in 2021 ..read more

[These daily posts will cover little known actors or people that have appeared in more recent films and TV series. Various degrees of information that I was able to find will be given and anything that you can add would be appreciated.] Augusto Brenna was an Italian fotoromanzi and film actor. Searching Ancestry.com I come up with a Augusto Prieto Brenna born on May 7, 1896 in Como, Lombardy, Italy. All the Brenna’s come from Como. This would but our actor in his late 60s during his Spaghetti western career which fits the profile. He was also sometimes credited as August Bren. I cannot find a ..read more

  Czechoslovakian actor and singer Josef Laufer died in Prauge of cardiac arrect on April 20th, after four years in an induced coma following heart valve surgery in March 2020. Laufer was born Don José José Francisco Pérez Rodriguez de Montagnes de Laufer on August 11 1939 in Sables d'Ollone, Vendée, France to a father of Jewish origin and native Spaniards. His parents met in Spain during the Civil War, where Dr. Maximilián Laufer worked as an interbrigadist in the lazareth. During his military service he began acting and directing amateur theater. After returning from the war, he made ..read more

Here’s two photos from two different films “100 Rifles” (1969) and “A Man Called Sledge” (1970) shot in the same location and almost identical camera angles. Both films used the location Plaza Antonio Lázaro in Polopos, Almería, Spain. The same location as seen today ..read more

World Adventures (Buffalo Bill, Captain Smashes, Sitting Bull, various) This comic book series featured both stories and real life and fictional characters such as (Buffalo Bill, Captain Crashes and Sitting Bull) created mainly by French authors such as Pellos and Pascal. The covers, in watercolor, are by Franco Donatelli. Announced, but not found, the #7 entitled “Les Misérables”. Images were done by Antonio Farina. The series was published in 1955 with #1 released in January and ended in June of 1955. It was published by GVA in Milan, Italy under the direction of Giusto Vaglieri. Eac ..read more

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