Katharine Juliet Ross is an American actress on film, stage, and television. Her accolades include an Academy Award nomination, a BAFTA Award, and two Golden Globe Awards.
Eon Productions Limited is a British film production company that primarily produces the James Bond film series. The company is based in London's Piccadilly and also operates from Pinewood Studios in the UK.
Guy Madison was an American film, television, and radio actor. He is best known for playing Wild Bill Hickok in the Western television series The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok from 1951 to 1958.
Weird West is a term used for the hybrid genres of fantasy Western, horror Western and science fiction Western. The term originated with DC's Weird Western Tales in 1972, but the idea is older as the genres have been blended since the 1930s, possibly earlier, in B-movie Westerns, comic books, movie serials and pulp magazines. Individually, the hybrid genres combine elements of the Western genre with those of fantasy, horror and science fiction respectively.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a 1968 musical fantasy film directed by Ken Hughes and produced by Albert R. Broccoli. It stars Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes, Lionel Jeffries, Gert Fröbe, Anna Quayle, Benny Hill, James Robertson Justice, Robert Helpmann, Heather Ripley and Adrian Hall. The film is based on the 1964 children's novel Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang: The Magical Car by Ian Fleming, with a screenplay co-written by Hughes and Roald Dahl.
Giustino Durano was an Italian actor best known for his work as Eliseo Orefice in the 1997 film Life Is Beautiful. For his role, he was nominated in part for a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast.
Luis Induni was an Italian film actor of the 1950s 1960s and 1970s.
"You Better Sit Down Kids" is a major hit single by American singer/actress Cher in 1967 from her fourth studio album With Love, Chér, released in November 1967 by Imperial Records. The song was written by her then-husband Sonny Bono. Sung from a father's perspective, the lyrics tell the story of a divorce as explained to the couple's children. The song is featured on the compilation albums Cher's Golden Greats (1968), Superpack Vol. 1 (1972) and Gold (2005).
Federico Boido, was an Italian film actor who appeared in many horror films, Spaghetti Westerns, and sword and sandal movies. He also acted in the Sadistik photo novels and related his experiences in the film The Diabolikal Super-Kriminal.
Kiss Kiss (Bang Bang) is a 2001 British comedy film written and directed by Stewart Sugg. It features Stellan Skarsgård, Chris Penn, and Paul Bettany.
Eurospy film, or Spaghetti spy film, is a genre of spy films produced in Europe, especially in Italy, France, and Spain, that either sincerely imitated or else parodied the British James Bond spy series feature films. The first wave of Eurospy films was released in 1964, two years after the first James Bond film, Dr. No, and in the same year as the premiere of what many consider to be the apotheosis of the Bond series, Goldfinger. For the most part, the Eurospy craze lasted until around 1967 or 1968. In Italy, where most of these films were produced, this trend replaced the declining sword and sandal genre.
Peter Lee Lawrence was a German actor and a citizen of France. He enjoyed brief fame as a prolific leading man of Spaghetti Westerns before dying at the age of 30.
Saga Studio was a film production company in Denmark founded by John Olsen. The company existed from 1942 to 1976.
Poul Bang was a Danish film producer and director. He produced 24 films between 1950 and 1967. He also directed 23 films between 1943 and 1963.
Lotte Tarp was a Danish film actress. She appeared in 27 films between 1962 and 1990. She was born in Århus to the Danish composer, Svend Erik Tarp and died in Copenhagen.
George Martin was a Spanish film actor, sometimes credited as Jorge Martín. He is known as a frequent star in the Italian 3 Supermen series and for numerous parts in Spaghetti Westerns and Italian exploitation films.
Duccio Tessari was an Italian film director, screenwriter and actor, considered one of the fathers of Spaghetti Westerns.
Fury of Johnny Kid is a 1967 Italian-Spanish film directed by Gianni Puccini. The Italian and Spanish versions of the film have different endings. The film is a Spaghetti Western version of William Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet. Paul Naschy worked as an assistant director on this film, and Director Puccini told him he wanted to bring Naschy back to Rome to work with him on other projects. Puccini died in Rome in December 1968, so it was not to be.
Ornella Micheli was an Italian film editor active from the 1950s through the 1980s. She often worked on the exploitation films and thrillers of directors Lucio Fulci, Riccardo Freda, and Giuliano Carnimeo.
The Kid Ranger is a 1936 American Western film starring Bob Steele. It was done for Supreme Pictures and was produced by A. W. Hackel.
