Mario Caiano Explained
Mario Caiano |
Birth Date: | 13 February 1933 |
Birth Place: | Rome, Italy |
Yearsactive: | 1954–2002 |
Occupation: | Film director, producer, screenwriter, art director |
Mario Caiano (February 13, 1933 - September 20, 2015)[1] was an Italian film director, screenwriter, producer, art director and second unit director.[2]
Career
Born in Rome, he directed nearly 50 films between 1961 and 2001 and wrote some 27 films and TV scripts since 1954.[3]
He is primarily known for his work on Spaghetti Westerns,[4] Pepla, Euro Crime and to a slightly lesser degree on horror films.[5] Caiano directed (as Allen Grünewald) and wrote the script for Nightmare Castle (Amanti d'oltretomba, 1965), which stars Barbara Steele. Eye in the Labyrinth (1972) is a later film in the genre that he directed.
Partial filmography
Works cited
- Book: Curti, Roberto. Italian Crime Filmography, 1968-1980. McFarland. 978-0786469765. 2013.
- Book: Curti, Roberto. Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1957–1969. McFarland. 978-1-4766-1989-7. 2015.
- Book: Curti, Roberto. Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1970-1979. McFarland. 978-1476629605. 2017.
- Book: Kinnard. Roy. Crnkovich. Tony. Italian Sword and Sandal Films, 1908-1990. McFarland. 978-1476662916. 2017.
Notes and References
- Web site: Mario Caiano . 2024-04-29 . en.unifrance.org.
- Web site: Mario Caiano. Corazzata Potemkin. 2015-09-21. 2015-09-23. https://web.archive.org/web/20150923060434/http://dagostini.blogautore.repubblica.it/2015/09/20/mario-caiano/. dead.
- Book: Ercolani, Eugenio . Darkening the Italian Screen: Interviews with Genre and Exploitation Directors Who Debuted in the 1950s and 1960s . 2019-08-21 . McFarland . 978-1-4766-6738-6 . en.
- Book: Wong, Aliza S. . Spaghetti Westerns: A Viewer's Guide . 2018-12-15 . Rowman & Littlefield . 978-1-4422-6904-0 . en.
- Book: Brizio-Skov, Flavia . Ride the Frontier: Exploring the Myth of the American West on Screen . 2021-02-17 . McFarland . 978-1-4766-8306-5 . en.
- Web site: Las pistolas no discuten [Le pistole non discutono] (1964)]. Archviodelcinemaitaliano.it. 24 September 2018. Italian.
- Web site: Die letzten Zwei vom Rio Bravo. Filmportal.de. 24 September 2018. German.
- Web site: Una bara per lo sceriffo (1965). Archiviodelcinemaitaliano.it. December 29, 2018. Italian.
- pp. 230-1 Blake, Matt The Eurospy Guide Luminary Press 2004
- Book: Weisser, Thomas . Spaghetti Westerns--the Good, the Bad and the Violent: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Filmography of 558 Eurowesterns and Their Personnel, 1961-1977 . . 22 August 2005 . 286 . 9780786424429.
- Web site: Dos hombres van a morir [Ringo, il cavaliere solitario] (1968)]. Archiviodelcinemaitaliano.it. December 29, 2018. Italian.
- Web site: Liebesvögel. Filmportal.de. December 29, 2018. German.
- Web site: L'Occhio nel labirinto. Filmportal.de. December 29, 2018. German.
- Web site: L'occhio nel labirinto (1972). Archviodelcinemaitaliano.it. December 29, 2018. Italian.
- Web site: Il mio nome è Shangai Joe (1973). Archiviodelcinemaitaliano.it. December 29, 2018. Italian.
- Web site: La svastica nel ventre (1976). Archiviodelcinemaitaliano.it. December 29, 2018. Italian.