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.
Then Rio Bravo, El Dorado, Joe Kidd with Clint Eastwood etc. What history!!
There are 3 existing western towns to visit in Almeria - Western Leone, with the McBain ranch house - Mini Hollywood, the El Paso set from FAFDM, - Fort Bravo, lesser known, but has been used for Blindman, Hannie Caulder, Catlow, Price of Power, Chato’s Land and many others.
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YOU LEGEND ALDO!! I have been trying to find out where they filmed Hannie Caulder for years! I tried to built a holiday around locating the, well location. 
The first town Raquel and Robert Culp arrive at is now known as Fort Bravo … it’s also where the bank robbery takes place in the opening scene. There is a Mexican section … more buildings today than in 71, but most are original.
Some scenes toward the end are the El Paso set at Mini Hollywood, with the bank now converted to look like a hotel.
The prison for the final shootout was behind where the bank stands - it was demolished unfortunately.
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Thanks man. The only bit I knew about was the prison being demolished. A fellow fan told me when I visited Mini Hollywood.
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And Christopher Lee’s house on the beach is set at Los Genoveses. A nice beach to visit regardless of film connections if sometimes a bit windy.
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