N JUNE 3, 1967, Mario Bava became a grand- father for the second and last time, with the birth of Lamberto and Fiamma’s second child, a son named Fabrizio—who nevertheless grew up being called Roy.
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ANTHONY STEFFEN reunited with Mario Bava for the first time since CITTÀ DI NOTTE on this little-seen Italian Western.
“I always thought my name was Roy,” he laughs. “That’s all I’ve ever been called by my family! I only found out my real name was Fabrizio when I went to school. The teacher read out the register and I didn’t answer when Fabrizio was called—because I didn’t know it was my name! Lamberto wanted to baptize me as Roy, but the Church refused because it was a foreign name. Carole Levy, Lamberto’s agent, also only knew me as Roy. I was in the same class as her daughter Gioia, and when she went home telling her mother she had met Lamberto’s son Fabrizio, Carole made a puzzled call to my father saying, ‘When did you have another son? You could have told me!’”1
