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Ugo Tognazzi-Abbe Lane "Casanova Jekill" (Il mio amico Jekyll) 1960, de Marino Girolami.

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Les motorisées (Le motorizzate) de Marino Girolami, 1963. Dessin d'Hurel.

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Grazie...nonna (1975) Marino Girolami

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Weapons of Death (1977)

Weapons of Death is a real oddity. It’s a spin off to a series of movies that were popular at the box office in the 1970s. There are a couple of tactics being used, to get bums on seats, pretty shrewd tactics. 

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Happy 85th Birthday Scottish actor Ian McCulloch was born in Glasgow 18th November 1939.

After doing his national service in the army McCulloch studied at Oxford, during this time he started picking up acting roles and was almost kicked out as it was seen to be interfering with his studies, he knuckled down and completed his university degree. McCulloch admits finding it hard to pick up parts early in his career, he took anything he could, and was known to take operatic parts before being recommended to the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Another of those actors that you will know the face from many shows and films but might not recall his name, I remember him from a 70’s series my mum never missed, Survivors, where he played the enigmatic Greg Preston, McCulloch also wrote the final three episodes of the post-apocalyptic drama. Survivors was created by the man behind Dr Who, Terry Nation, so it won’t surprise you that McCulloch also starred in the episode Warriors of the Deep, the Doctor was played by Peter Davison. The episode is best remembered by cult television fans because the story featured quite possibly the most unconvincing monster in the history of the series.

He then starred in several notoriously violent Italian made horror films of the early 1980s that were part of the "video nasty" controversy within the UK. McCulloch was the male lead in the Romero inspired Zombie aka "Zombi 2" directed by Lucio Fulci, he was back battling more living dead in Zombie Holocaust aka "Dr Butcher MD" directed by Marino Girolami, and then McCulloch took on interplanetary invaders in the Alien rip-off Contamination, directed by Luigi Cozzi. I would think that by standard nowadays they would be pretty tame.

Ian McCulloch’s film credits are impressive playing supporting roles in Where Eagles Dare with the likes of Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood then Cromwell with Richard Harris and Alec Guinness but it was TV that he made a name for himself, Dr. Finlay’s Casebook, Colditz and Secret Army, as well as Survivors during the 70’s and in the 80’s, Diamonds, Bergerac, Childrens Ward and of course Taggart, as well as other Scottish shows, City Lights and The Tales of Para handy, McCulloch was never been short of work, however there has been nothing lately fro him and I assumed that he retired., but he turned up in a podcast of Survivors in 2016, and according to IMDB he is to feature in a film, The Witches of the Sands, which was due out this year, but apparently is still in production.

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“A boxer’s victory is gained in blood.”

G. Kaibel, Epigrammata Graeca (Berlin, 1878), p. 942; and Moretti, Inscrizioni agonistiche greche, no. 55.

A pencil drawing of the colossal statue of “The Boxer” (Italian : Il Pugilatore) by Italian sculptor Francesco Messina in The Stadio dei Marmi (Stadium of Marbles) in the Foro Italico.

Il Pugilatore was created in 1931-1933. Messina created a series of sculptures that show boxers. This larger-than-life marble statue was depicted in the Berlin 1936 catalog.

The boxer Marino Girolami is said to have been the model.

Inspired by the Roman forums of the imperial age, The Foro Italico was built between 1928 and 1938 as the Foro Mussolini (literally Mussolini’s Forum) under the design of Enrico Del Debbio and, later, Luigi Moretti.

The Stadio dei Marmi is lined with 59 (originally 60) colossal statues, which portray a range of sporting disciplines. Each statue was the gift of one of the provinces of Italy. The Boxer was donated by the Province of Ascoli Piceno.

Messina is considered one of the most important Italian sculptors of the twentieth century. He was director of the Accademia di Brera between 1936 and 1944.

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María Montez-Massimo Serato "Love and blood" (Amore e sangue) 1951, de Marino Girolami.

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A Special Cop In Action (1976)

The final instalment of the Inspector Betti series sees Merli in Milan to track down some kidnapped children, negotiate their release and deal with the group responsible. Simple.

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Roberto Girometti

Attivo a partire dai primi anni sessanta, Roberto Girometti (Roma, 1939) è stato uno dei direttori della fotografia più importanti e prolifici della sua generazione, attivo saltuariamente anche come giornalista per La Settimana Incom, regista e sceneggiatore. Fra i molti registi dell’epoca con cui ha collaborato, Marino Girolami, Roberto Loyola, Franco Rossetti, Luigi Cozzi, Sergio Martino e…

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Le tardone (Marino Girolami, 1964). 6/10

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Ugo Tognazzi-Abbe Lane "Casanova Jekill" (Il mio amico Jekyll) 1960, de Marino Girolami.

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Violent Rome (1975)

"Violent Rome" catapulted Maurizio Merli to stardom as Commissioner Betti, a cop-cum-vigilante. Directed by Marino Girolami, this action-packed film blends thrilling police drama with vengeance, marked by a standout car chase and brutal realism.