Casting

Tim Lucas

These questions may well have led to Lee Van Cleef being cast in a pair of Italian westerns as the anti-hero Sabata, the so-called man with the gun-side eyes, who wears much the same clothing and whose name means Sabbath. The bartender here is Ricardo Palacios in a very early screen appearance. He went on to much bigger roles. In fact, this same year, he managed to get bit parts in Dr. Zhivago, as well as a funny thing happened on the way to the Forum.

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Tim Lucas

Manco is greeted by a little hustler named Fernando, played by Antonito Ruiz, who the following year would be cast as the youngest son of Stevens, the boy we see riding the mule in circles to operate a watermill in the opening scene. As you know, this film is going to set up a kind of father-son relationship between Mortimer and Manco. And in this relationship between Manco and Fernando, we see a kind of son-grandson relationship taking shape.

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Tim Lucas

Of course, with a face and bosom like that, she couldn't help but attract the attention of Federico Fellini, and he cast her in an orgy scene in 1969's Fellini Satyricon. Her husband is played by German actor Kurt Zips, who provokes a hearty laugh when he steps down to reveal his true stature. He worked almost entirely in German television, and this Italian western appears to be unique in its exception.

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Tim Lucas

and a number of West German crime pictures, including The Carpet of Horror, Hypnosis, and The White Spider. Strangely, no German director ever had the vision to cast him in a Karl May western, though Franz Josef Gottlieb later cast him in Wild Kurdistan, an adaptation of one of Karl May's Orient adventures. It took his casting in Sergio Corbucci's Minnesota Clay to get him started in westerns.

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Tim Lucas

In fact, in 2003, when he was directing a film called Mystic River, Clint Eastwood had the wonderful idea of casting Eli Wallach in the film as a gun store owner.

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Tim Lucas

Sergio Leone valued the familiar, and he first offered the role of Tuco to Gian Maria Volonté, who had played Ramon Rojo in A Fistful of Dollars and the formidable Indio in For a Few Dollars More. Obviously, the casting of Volonté would have taken all of the humor out of the character and made this a very different film. Leone claimed that he got the idea of casting Eli Wallach, who started out in such hard-edged film as Elia Kazan's Baby Doll and Don Siegel's The Lineup.

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A little background on actor Timothy Moxon, who plays Strangways. At the time of Dr. No, Moxon was making his living as a charter pilot and crop duster in Jamaica. But before he moved to the Caribbean, he had been an actor in London, where he knew director Terrence Young, which led to Moxon being cast in the role of Strangways. Actor Anthony Dawson plays Professor Dent. Dawson appeared in many films for director Young, beginning with They Were Not Divided in 1950 and continuing with Action of the Tiger in 1957.

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Sean Connery seemed an unlikely person to become one of the world's top actors. He grew up in the impoverished Fountainbridge section of Edinburgh, Scotland. He joined the Navy at age 17 and was discharged three years later. He took a series of menial jobs before traveling to London for the Mr. Universe tryouts. There, he auditioned for a part in the chorus of South Pacific. Soon, Connery became serious about acting, and in 1957, he was cast by Terrence Young

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69 Rupa Gal was later released as an Ed Wood paperback. Many of the films were also released as paperbacks. Let me find, if you can carry it for a minute, Rudolph. The sad part is that the 69 Rupa Gal movie, the script was all done. I read the script. The casting was all done.

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