Monday, March 18, 2024

Little Known Spaghetti Western Actors ~ Arlette Bontemps

[These daily posts will cover little known actors or people that have appeared in more recent films and TV series. Various degrees of information that I was able to find will be given and anything that you can add would be appreciated.]

Arlette Bontemps was a member of the French soft porn group of actresses that were seen during the early 1970s including Alice Arno, Evelyne Scott, Christine Chantrel and others. Bontemps appeared in only two mainstream films “Lâchez les chiennes” (Penetration) in 1973 and her only Eur-western “Les aventures galantes de Zorro” (Red Hot Zorro) in 1972.

Whether she went into hard porn or ended her career after Zorro is unknown.

BONTEMPS, Arlette [French] – film actress.

Red Hot Zorro – 1972

Spaghetti Western Locations Then and Now “Land Raiders”

Here is the location of the church as seen in 1969’s “Land Raiders”. The popular church was also used in the 1961 film “El Cid”. It is located in Ermita de nuestra señora de los remedios, Colmenar Viejo, Madrid, Spain.

Here is what the location looks like today in 2024.




European Western Comic Books - LE AVVENTURE DEL FAR-WEST (Tom Buck)

 






Far West Adventures – Tom Buck

This western series tells the adventures of the cowboy Tom Buck. Texts by Amilcare Medici, drawings were done by Francesco Pescador. On the back cover, western stickers to cut out and send to the publishing house to obtain a cash prize of 50 lire for 50 stickers sent, 150 lire for 100 stickers, 1,000 lire for sending 500 stickers.

The comic book was published in 1946 and were released once a month from January to April. It was published by SET in Milan, Italy. Each issue contained 8 black and white pages with color covers.

 

Titles

01 (00.00.00) - "Il sentiero di fuoco" (The Path of Fire)

02 (00.00.00) - "In lotta contro i fuori legge" (Fighting Against the Outlaws)

03 (00.00.00) - "La liberazione" (The Liberation)

04 (00.00.00) - "Il canon della morte" (The Cannon of Death)

Special Birthdays

Paul Guide (actor) would have been 140 today but died in 1940.

Helmut Harun (director, writer) would have been 110 today but died in 1981.









Tonino Pierfederici (actor) would have been 105 today but died in 1999.









Kai Fischer (actress) is 90 today.



Sunday, March 17, 2024

St. Patrick's Day 2024

 


From the WAI! vault

 





Little Known Spaghetti Western Actors ~ Damien Bonnard

[These daily posts will cover little known actors or people that have appeared in more recent films and TV series. Various degrees of information that I was able to find will be given and anything that you can add would be appreciated.]

Damien Bonnard was born in Alès, Gard, Occitanie, France on July 22, 1978. He emerged onto the scene in 2016 when Alain Guiraudie's Rester vertical “Staying Vertical”, in which he played a wayward screenwriter, was screened at the Festival de Cannes, Damien Bonnard is now a familiar face in the French film industry. After working with Christopher Nolan “Dunkirk”, (2017), he dazzled in Pierre Salvadori's comedy “En liberté” (The Trouble with You). In 2019, he starred in “Ladj Ly's Les Misérables”, which won the Festival de Cannes' Jury Prize and four Césars, as well as in “J’Accuse” (An Officer and a Spy) by Roman Polanski, which won the Venice Film Festival's Grand Jury Prize.

Bonnard has appeared in one Euro-western short as Pat Garrett in 2013’s “The Ballad of Billy the Kid” starring Rodolphe Pauly

BONNARD, Damien [7/22/1978, Alès, Gard, Occitanie, France -     ] – director, writer, film, TV actor.

The Ballad of Billy the Kid – 2013 (Pat Garrett)