ELEBRATING THE GOOD fortunes of Baron Blood, Alfredo Leone and Mario Bava continued their friendship
A COLLAGE of faces from LISA AND THE DEVIL (clockwise): Telly Savalas (framed by that familiar headboard!), Elke Sommer, Alessio Orano (twice), and Sylva Koscina.
off the set. “We became more like relatives than producer and director,” Leone describes. “We were fond of one another and we began to socialize during the week, going out to din- ner. He took me to special places he knew, out in the country. He had a dog that he loved, a big basset hound that was kind of old and sad-looking. Mario would comment how dogs often resembled their masters, and say, ‘Look at the dog and look at me!’ He complained frequently about the care and attention that he had to give the dog. He took it with us to the restaurants and the owner would have to make a special dish for the dog, and he’d sit there, feeding it! It was wonderful!”
