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A list of films produced in Spain in 1966 (see 1966 in film).
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A list of films produced in Spain in 1966 (see 1966 in film).
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
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| Attack of the Robots | Jesús Franco | Eddie Constantine, Françoise Brion, Fernando Rey | Spy | Spanish-French co-production [1] [2] | ||
| La caza | Carlos Saura | Alfredo Mayo, Emilio Gutiérrez Caba, Ismael Merlo | Drama | Won Best Director at Berlin | ||
| La Dama del Alba | Francisco Rovira Beleta | Dolores del Río, Yuliette Villar | ||||
| The Diabolical Dr. Z | Jesús Franco | Estella Blain, Mabel Karr, Howard Vernon | French-Spanish co-production [3] [4] | |||
| Kriminal | Umberto Lenzi | Roel Bos, Helga Liné, Andrea Bosic | Italian-Spanish co-production [5] | |||
| Nueve cartas a Berta | Basilio Martín Patino | Emilio Gutiérrez Caba | Drama | Influenced by Nouvelle Vague and 60's new cinemas | ||
| Noche de vino tinto | José María Nunes | Escuela de Barcelona | ||||
| With the Est Wind | Mario Camus | Entered into the 1966 Cannes Film Festival | ||||
| The Texican | Lesley Selander | Audie Murphy | Western | |||
Ernesto Gastaldi is an Italian screenwriter. Film historian and critic Tim Lucas described Gastaldi as the first Italian screenwriter to specialize in horror and thriller films. Gastaldi worked within several popular genres including pepla, Western and spy films.
Attack of the Robots is a 1966 spy film directed by Jesús Franco. The film stars Eddie Constantine as Al Pereira, a spy brought out of retirement to investigate a series of murders conducted by a robot-like army of people with black-framed glasses and strange darkened skin.
Fernando Di Leo was an Italian film director and script writer. He made 17 films as a director and about 50 scripts from 1964 to 1985.
Sergio Salvati is an Italian cinematographer who was born in Trastevere, a working-class neighborhood of Rome, Italy. His father, Aldofo Salvati, was already a key grip in the early days of Italian cinema, and through his father's contacts Sergio began his career developing negatives in a small photographic laboratory in Rome, the SPES directed by Di Ettore Catalucci.
Alberto De Martino was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Born in Rome, De Martino started as a child actor and later returned to the cinema where worked as a screenwriter, director and dubbing supervisor. De Martino's films as a director specialised in well-crafted knock-offs of Hollywood hit films. These films were specifically created films in Western, horror and mythology genres which were developed for the international market. The Telegraph stated that his best known of these film was probably The Antichrist. The Antichrist capitalized on the box-office appeal of The Exorcist (1973) and in its first week in the United States earned a greater box office than Jaws.
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Kriminal is a 1966 superhero film directed and written by Umberto Lenzi. The film is about a thief and murderer called Kriminal who escapes from a prison and is chased after by Inspector Milton. It was followed by a sequel, Il marchio di Kriminal.
The Diabolical Dr. Z is a 1966 horror film directed by Jesús Franco. The film stars Mabel Karr as Irma Zimmer, a surgeon who creates a machine that turns people into zombified slaves. Ms. Zimmer is the daughter of a Professor Zimmer, who was hounded to his death several years earlier by four of his scientific associates. Zimmer uses the machine to control an erotic dancer named Miss Muerte who uses her long poison-tipped fingernails to murder the people Ms. Zimmer holds responsible for her father's death.
Superargo Versus Diabolicus is a 1966 superhero film written and directed by Nick Nostro. It had the sequel in 1968, Superargo and the Faceless Giants directed by Paolo Bianchini.
Gold for the Caesars is a 1963 peplum film starring Jeffrey Hunter and Mylène Demongeot. Originally planned as an American production, the film later became an Italian-French international co-production after the poor box office return of King of Kings. It was shot in Italy in 1962. The film is credited to Andre de Toth in the United States and both de Toth and Sabatino Ciuffini in Italy. Second unit director Riccardo Freda has claimed to have shot the entire film, while De Toth biographies make little input regarding his work on the film. Actress Mylène Demongeot has also backed up that Freda had taken charge on the films set.
Luigi Carpentieri (1920-1987) was an Italian assistant director (1940-1949) and film producer (1947-1968). Together with Ermanno Donati, he founded the production company "Athena Cinematografica", which in 1960 became "Panda Cinematografica". All films produced by the company were genre films.
Ermanno Donati was an Italian film producer. Along with Luigi Carpentieri, Donati won the Nastro d'Argento award for Best Producer for the film The Day of the Owl.
The Sadistic Baron von Klaus is a 1963 film directed by Jesús Franco. Set in the village in the mountains of Austria, a series of murders of young women are plaguing a village. The murders recall the actions of fifty years earlier of Baron von Klaus. Karl Steiner, a reporter from out of town joins Inspector Borowsky in investigating.
Rififi in the City is a 1964 Spanish film directed by Jesús Franco. It is based on the novel Vous souvenez vous de Paco? by Charles Exbrayat.
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