Continuing on from a discussion I was having with Lindberg on the Rep company cast from Tessari’s Ringo films it struck me as an interesting idea to select your own ideal group of personel. The principal is this:
If (in an ideal fantasy world) you were producing a series of different spaghetti westerns and you could choose a group of names to appear and make all of them, who would you pick? We will base this on the same confines as Tessari chose, so you must pick 4 actors and 2 actresses who could all interchange goodie and baddie roles. At least one of these should be older to cover the father, banker, doctor, has been roles. You also get to chose a director, cinematographer and composer. The only restrictions here are NO LEONE OR MORRICONE. Just to avoid the obvious.
When making your choices try and think versatility and variety. People who can interchange and adapt to varying material but who, together, would make something of a supergroup.
I’ll give it some thought myself and then post my line up to get you started.
This was tougher than I expected. So much to choose from!
But once I’d eliminated Milian and Kinski as too difficult for anyone to work with more than once a year I came down to the following:
Diector: Giulio Petroni Cinematographer: Carlo Carlini Composer: Stelvio Cipriani Cast: Gianni Garko, Anthony Ghidra, Guglielmo Spoletini, Enrico Maria Salerno, Rada Rassimov, Nicoletta Machiaveli.
Well working on the basis of wanting a director who could turn his hand to different stuff he seemed like a good choice. I know he gets some flak but I like his work.
Director: Sergio Sollima
Cinematography: Tonino Delli Colli
Music: Francesco De Mais
Cast: Gianni Garko, Fernando Sancho, Tom Felleghy, Luis Induni, Nieves Navarro, Elisa Montes
Cast: Anthony Ghidra, Glenn Saxson, Benito Stefanelli, Ida Galli, Frank Wolff, Angelo Infanti
Production: Scherpschutter
Like this I have two directors (Caltabiano, Dallamano), two masters of arms (Stefanelli, Caltabiano) and two possible leads (Ghidra, Saxson); Wolffie can play a good-natured but foolish sheriff in one movie, and a sadistic villain in the next, Stefanelli can change his whiskers, beard, moustache or whatever for every new production and Infanti is just asked to keep his cool all the time.
Only small roles for Ida, the rest of the time she’s asked to please the producer.
Director: Giuliano Carnimeo
Cinematographer: Mario Bava
Composer: Bruno Nicolai
Cast: Gianni Garko, Klaus Kinski, Benito Steffanelli, George Martin, Linda Veras, Nieves Navarro
