Cave was built by hand by Gordon Mitchell. It is a bunch of small shack like buildings. The photos above I would say is Elios not Cave.
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Ah, I see now, sorry for the confusion. Also thanks for the information! It’s always nice to have a clearer picture into these productions!
If you are referring to the images of Cave on post #5 you’re probably confusing the churches.
The church of Elios Studios western town (a.k.a. Silver City) in There’s a Noose Waiting for You… Trinity!, Sergio Corbucci Specialists and Return of Sabata.
It is important to note that in the initial years the church was not present and there was a different building on the other side of Main Street.
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A few more pictures of the Western Town built and owned by Gordon Mitchell, this time from Allegri becchini… arriva Trinità aka His Colt, Himself, His Revenge
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From your pictures it seems that films like Per una bara piena di dollari and Giù la testa… hombre were shot partly in Cave Studio and partly in Elios Studios.
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We have another thread on Cave Studio, by the way:
Yes morgan, that’s right.
As an actor I made many films at Elios, one at a mining location outside Rome and one at Cinecitta.
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Hey! Super exciting that we have somebody here who was present on the films! By the way Is this your IMDB page?
Welcome John, it’s good to have you here! Speaking of Return of Sabata, any chance you remember who’s this actor facing Lee Van Cleef in the gambling house duel?
Offhand no…give me until tomorrow…
It’s perfectly normal, thanks anyway!
Sorry, I don’t know him.2020-04-11T07:00:00Z
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Thanks again for your interest!
I’m a bit late here but could I ask the location of Elios and Cave Studios?
Rome, both.
Cave studios was destroyed, after Mitchell lost the land it was built upon.
As far as I know, Elios still exists. But perhaps not the western town. The last western shot there is Mannaja, I think. Maybe someone can verify that.
The answers to most of your questions, you can find in the database and/or the forum, by the way.
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Thanks for that! I have a different reason for wanting to see Rome. My wife will be devastated.
I knew about Elios Studios being one of the Western Villages in Italy, and sometimes they’d make up exteriors and indoor locations at Cinecitta Studios. I also knew actor/bodybuilder Gordon Mitchell built his own Western Village, but had no idea he called it Cave Studios, that’s really neat! That’s a shame he lost the land and it got scrapped, that would have been a neat place to visit. I remember hearing on the mini documentary Westerns, Italian Style, narrated by Frank Wolff, that Almeria and Madrid had something like 20 Western Villages combined and Rome had 10. Now only a single Western Village exists in its entirety in either Almeria or Madrid, but it’s a huge Tourist attraction for SW aficionados. If anyone’s interested, here in the States we have an entire Western town set in Arizona called Old Tuscon Studios that’s also a Tourist spot, but still shoots the odd Western film here and there.
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Ah old Tucson! I watched a brilliant documentary about the place on a John Wayne DVD.
In 1947 Gene Autry starred in “The Last Roundup,” followed in 1950 by Jimmy Stewart in “Winchester ’73” and Ronald Reagan in “The Last Outpost.”
During the 1950s the Western movie era was in full swing nationwide. In that decade alone Western classics such as “Gunfight at the OK Corral” (1956) with Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas, “The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold” (1957) and “Cimarron” (1959) with Glenn Ford were filmed at Old Tucson.