A further search putting “Luigi Batzella”+Morris into google gave me a link to ‘Actors of the Spaghetti Westerns’ by James Prickette (A book I know nothing about btw) and on page 1973 he says… (quote) “Fred Lyons Morris (Dir) Luigi Batzella” so he reckons so as well. Mind you he doesn’t say where he got this information.
And it is well known though that Batzella used plenty of psudonyms… (and according to wiki-bollocks quoting imdb) “There is some conflicting information on whether his real name was Paolo Solvay or Luigi Batzella. According to the IMDb it’s Batzella, according to Gordon Mitchell and Richard Harrison, it’s Solvay.”
Confusing and Fidani-esque, but I reckon stylistically as well as in my poo that these could be one and the same fellah. I’ll have to watch that “poor reputation… French Sex Murders” and see if it shows a similar ineptness and feel. And to look at the tits of course.
Nope - I did wonder but it’s a quote from an e-book… maybe they have more shorter pages?
And our good friend says of it in an amazon (co.uk) review…
“the book “Actors of the Spaghetti Westerns” is a well researched and to my thinking a very complete list and description of directors and actors of this time. I particularly enjoyed the background stories about how they got to the making or working on the Spaghetti Westerns, includes detailed information on the most prominent artists of this time. Any fan should have a place for this book, in his bookcase or beside the bed .
I have.
Dan van Husen”
I’ve published a lot of e-books, and their size radically varies according to page length. Ironically, I just had a talk with my publisher this morning about just such a thing.
Still, for nearly 2000 pages that’s a pretty good deal. I’ll probably pass, though.
Interesting. Are they spaggie - gritty and violent For a military man I suppose they’ll certainly be the latter?. And where can we see them?
And (sort of back on topic) do you use psuedonyms.
Yeah, most folks complain about the descriptive sex and violence. I even went so far as to put a warning label on my books, but they still continued to buy them and bitch. Go figure.
Solvay/Batzella, film editor on Allegri becchini… arriva Trinità, has nothing to do with the previous Casa d’appuntamento/Das Auge des Bösen (in which the cutter was Bruno Mattei, many years later director of Scalps and White Apache: both films were released in Italy in July 1986).
[quote=“Reverend Danite, post:25, topic:575”]And - back on topic…
;D
Well Fred Lyon Morris IS Ferdinando Merighi…
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And Fred Lyon Morris is…
[Edit @ Brother Jonathan - I know that there is no proof for what I say about this (other than trusting my poo ;)) and am only trying to stimulate debate about this cos it’s bugging me that the real Merighi is being so elusive. The stuff on the internet about Batzella could be Chinese whispers - but if not Batzella, still a pseudonym you think?]
[quote=“Bad Lieutenant, post:27, topic:575”]They’re 2 different people.
I have this tape, by the way. Dean Stratford = Audie Murphy ;)[/quote]
I agree with the possibility of the latter ;D … but disagree about the former. If Merighi exists anywhere but as a pseudonym, then you’d expect to be able to find a picture of him at least. ???
STOP! Merighi isn’t Batzella. I do not kwow anything about this Batzella man (really? Batzella? Spelled like this, it cannot be an italian surname) BUT I DO KNOW ABOUT FERDINANDO MERIGHI, AKA FRED LION MORRIS. He was my father and he died 24 years ago. He left movie direction for dialogs adaptation in mid ‘70. He always cared about his (and our) privacy at most, and that’ s why there’s no bio or photos on web.
He worked with Giuseppe Vari on three other occasions: Hole in the Forehead, Death Rides Along and the WW2 drama A Place in Hell (1969).
It is a Sardinian surname. Batzella was film editor on Allegri becchini… arriva Trinità under the alias of Paolo Solvay, and before that Merighi was second unit director on Batzella’s When the Bell Tolls (1970).
Franza, do you happen to know which actor plays under the pseudonym Haim Bogart?
This film is terrible but I knew what to expect from the first 10 minutes, so I had my fun with this. Recommended for fans of trashy, low budget spaghettis.
For a military man I suppose they’ll certainly be the latter?. And where can we see them?
