Robert Mark rides into KILL OR BE KILLED to settle a disagreement between two rancher families.
in A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS. I doubt he’s ever stopped kicking himself. I don’t think any of us had any faith that these people, who were great at making Latin-lover melodramas and great comedies, could ever make successful Westerns. Oh, well. Had I not fallen off that horse in Spain, I probably would have gone on to make more of them.
GOD DOES NOT PAY ON SATURDAY has quite a cast.
Larry Ward was a good friend; I last saw him a couple of months before he died—in LA, some- time in the ’80s, I think. I’m still in touch with his wife, Roberta Haynes. Furio Meniconi was one of the gentle giants. He always reminded me a bit of the Duke: very kind man, good actor, lots of fun. Maria Silva was good to work with; don’t know what ever became of her. I think that, in the Madrid cinema scene, she was fairly famous at the time.
Poster for GOD DOES NOT PAY ON SATURDAY.
In KILL OR BE KILLED, you portrayed a violin- playing Johnny Ringo.
At this point in my life, it is not something I look back on with a great deal of pride. As West- erns of the genre in that period, I suppose it was a passably good flick, but I wasn’t too happy with it. I thought the echo-chamber effect with the violin was the height of Italian cornball. And I remember hating the idea of having to “finger-sync” the phony violin. Then, to top it off, they didn’t use the same music in the final cut that I had mimicked the bowing to during filming, so nothing turned out in synchronization. It looked and sounded awful. When I first saw the film, I laughed so hard the poor producer nearly had a stroke. He said I had no respect for what he thought was a great idea. He was so right. In addition, I remember they gave me less than a day to practice the damn thing. I had never touched a violin in my life. That violin was the main thing I despised about the script from the beginning. I would rather have played castanets! I remember a bitter argument ensued when my agent almost pulled me from the film
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