Luciano Martino

Regardless of his relationship with Fulci, this film effectively launched his career in Italian westerns, and he appeared in several of them over the following year, including Go Kill and Come Back, Any Gun Can Play, Professionals for a Massacre, and Hallelujah for Django.

As well as appearing in multiple westerns, in 1968 he made his giallo debut in the thriller The Sweet Body of Deborah, written by Ernesto Gastaldi and Luciano Martino, and co-starring Carol Baker, Jean Sorel and Ida Galley.

This introduced him to Luciano Martino, Sergio's brother, who allegedly told the actor that he needed to get out of the saddle.

This was advice that Hilton began to take seriously, saying, quote, I began to alternate to change my image because you can't only make westerns, obviously.

I had this Texan hat, a cigar, a horse, but my origins were in South American theatre, so I started making these other films, which were a huge success, end quote.

A woman, a husband, an ex-lover, and a new one, all potentially complicit in a plan to kill her and disguise it as either the work of a serial killer or a suicide.

According to one account, which I'm sure you'll get into, Peter, and verify this for us, Luciano Martino even considered bringing Baker back for the role before deciding it would prove too costly and cast Edwige Fenech instead, who went on to become the face of the genre for the next few years.

By that point, the genre had absorbed Argento's black gloves and razor blades, grafted them onto a plot that is fundamentally the one Gastaldi had already been writing since 1965.

We touched on some of this in episode two when we covered So Sweet, So Perverse, and much of what we said there about Gastaldi's debt to Clouzot holds equally well here.

So at the time of production, Guerrieri's 36, and he'd worked as an assistant director since the early '50s, and he made his directorial debut with Malizia sulla spiaggia in 1961.

But his career didn't take off properly until 1966, where two of his, of his Westerns opened.

This was the second time that he worked with producers Luciano Martino and Mino Loy.

Their Western, Ten Thousand Dollars Blood Money, was written by Gastaldi as well, and that had opened in March of 1967.

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he has some acting uh he has some acting chops under him so um and the villa i found this out this is really interesting it still exists by the way um the villa was actually provided by the producer luciano martino

Oh, very cool.

Now, here's the thing.

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jones yeah the jones of italy

i did not do my due diligence to find out if they were related but uh that's the producer that that is okay i

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