#upperseven

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Upperseven, l'uomo da uccidere (1966)

Goodbye Karin Dor (1938 - 2017)

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Original Sketch & Art

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Upperseven, The Man To Kill-Bruno Nicolai & Sabina Montes • Tuo Sguardo Atomico-Mario N. • A Man Alone-John Barry • Fantabulous-Sandro Brugnolini • Deep Down-Ennio Morricone • Kiss Kiss Bang Bang-Bruno Nicolai • Let’s Try-Piero Umiliani • Flashman-Franco Tamponi • Alexander-The Boots • Ypotron-Nico Fidenco • Rapporto Fuller, Base Stoccolma-Armando Trovaioli & Vania • Mister X-Manuel Parada • Billion Dollar Brain-Richard Rodney Bennett - Operation Lady Chaplin-Bruno Nicolai & Bobby Solo • [clip: Dr. No (1962)] • Duemafioso contra Goldginger - Piero Umiliani • Modesty Blaise-Dalida • Supercolpo Shake-Nico Fidenco • Lucky The Inscrutable (1967)-Bruno Nicolai • Satanik-Roberto Pregadio & Romano Mussolini • Let The Love Come Through-Roland Shaw & His Orchestra • A Night With Nuki-Brian Marshall Orchestra • Tiffany Sequence-Riz Ortolani • Molotov Cocktail Party-Vivi Bach & Dietmar Schönherr • Knyom Mun Sok Jet Te: “I’m Unsatisfied”-Pan Ron • Wooly Bully-Ros Sereysothea, Sinn Sisamouth and Friends • Jam 5 Kai Thiet: "Wait 5 More Months”-Ros Sereysothea + Seang Vanthy • Trip-Kaygisizlar • Yuvajon Kouge Jet "Broken Heart Man”-Yol Aularong • Ghabileh-ye Lily-Mehr Pooya • Wait for Me-Roger Damawuzan • [clip: Jean Seberg & Jean-Paul Belmondo Breathless (1960)] • L’adorable Femme Des Neiges-Christie Laume • La Nuit N'en Finit Plus-Petula Clark • Partie De Dames-Liz Brady • Gilgamis-Apaslar • The Man Who Must Leave-Kim Sun • What You Can Do In Your Life-Petalouda • Bairaag Dance Music-Kalyanji Anandji • Wollsiegel Party-Orchester Udo Gerlach • Meri Aakhon Mein Ek Sapna Hai-Sapan Jagmohan • Butterfly-Keith Kanga • Luchs-Theo Schumann Combo • Honigmond-Die Alexanders • Elektron-Tanzorchester Des Berliner Rundfunks • [download]

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Las 241 películas que he visto en 2018 (parte 1)

1. Aelita (Yakov Protazanov, 1924).

2. La huelga (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925)

3. A nous la liberte (Rene Clair, 1931)

4. American madness (Frank Capra, 1932)

5. The crash (William Dieterle, 1932)

6. Dinner at eight (George Cukor, 1933)

7. Tiempos modernos  (Charlie Chaplin, 1936)

8. El camino radiante (Grigori Alexandrov, 1940)

9. How green was my valley (John Ford, 1941)

10. The Devil and Miss Jones (Sam Wood, 1941)

11. The grapes of wrath (John Ford, 1941)

12.The glass key (Stuart Heisler, 1942)

13. The blue dahlia (George Marshall, 1946)

14. The blue lamp (Basil Dearden, 1949)

15. The fountainhead (King Vidor, 1949)

16. The Lavender Hill mob (Charles Crichton, 1951)

17. Surcos (Jose Antonio Nieves Conde, 1951)

18. The prisoner of Zenda (Richard Thorpe, 1952)

19. Historias de Tokyo  (Yasujirō Ozu, 1953)

20. House of wax (Andre de Toth, 1953)

21. Executive suite (Robert Wise, 1954)

22. Sabrina (Billy Wilder, 1954)

23. The salt of the earth (Herbert Biberman, 1954)

24. Woman’s world (Jean Negulesco, 1954)

25. Fruta loca  (Kô Nakahira, 1956)

26. Patterns (Fielder Cook, 1956)

27. The man in the gray flannel suit (Nunnally Johnson, 1956) 

28. The power and the prize (Henry Koster, 1956)

29. The solid gold cadillac (Richard Quine, 1956)

30. El inquilino (Jose Antonio Nieves-Conde, 1957)

31. The pajama game (George Abbott y Stanley Donen 1957).

32. Will success spoil Rock Hunter? (Frank Tashlln, 1957)

33. La vida por delante (Fernando Fernan-Gomez, 1958)

34. Day of the outlaw (Andre de Toth, 1959)

35. La vida alrededor (Fernando Fernan-Gomez, 1959)

36. Sapphire (Basil Dearden, 1959)

37. Los canallas duermen en paz  (Akira Kurosawa, 1960)

38. Cash McCall (Joseph Pevney, 1960)

39. Rocco e i suoi fratelli (Luchino Visconti, 1960).

40. Burn witch, burn (Sidney Hayers, 1962)

41. Hatari! (Howard Hawks, 1962)

42. The counterfeit traitor (George Seaton, 1962)

43. The L-shaped room (Bryan Forbes, 1962)

44. Matango (Ishiro Honda, 1963)

45. The servant (Joseph Losey, 1963)

46. The wheeler dealers (Arthur Hill, 1963)

47. West 11 (Michael Winner, 1963)

48. Atout cœur à Tokyo pour OSS 117 (Michel Boisrond, 1966)

49. Missione speciale Lady Chaplin (Alberto di Martino, 1966)

50. New York chiama Superdrago (Giorgio Ferroni, 1966)

51. Upperseven, l’uomo da uccidere (Alberto de Martino, 1966)

52. What’s up, Tiger Lily? (Woody Allen y Senkichi Taniguchi, 1966)

53. How to succeed in business without really trying (David Swift, 1967)

54. La piel quemada (Josep Maria Forn, 1967)

55. The million eyes of Sumuru (Lindsay Shonteff, 1967)

56. Un millón en la basura (Jose Maria Forque, 1967)

57. Corri, uomo, corri! (Sergio Sollima, 1968)

58. Las secretarias (Pedro Lazaga, 1968)

59. Marquis de Sade: Justine (Jess Franco, 1969)

60. Adios, Sabata (Gianfranco Parolini, 1970)

61. El dinero tiene miedo (Pedro Lazaga, 1970)

62. Il trono di fuoco (Jess Franco, 1970)

63. Performance (Donald Cammell y Nicolas Roeg, 1970)

64. La coda dello scorpione (Sergio Martino, 1971)

65. Asylum (Roy Ward Baker, 1972)

66. El castillo de la pureza (Arturo Ripstein, 1972)

67. Il tuo vizio è una stanza chiusa e solo io ne ho la chiave (Sergio Martino, 1972)

68. La dama rossa uccide sette volte (Emilio Miraglia, 1972)

69. La noche del terror ciego (Amando de Ossorio, 1972)

70. Perché quelle strane gocce di sangue sul corpo di Jennifer? (Giuliano Carnimeo, 1972)

71. The candidate (Michael Ritchie, 1972)

72. Tutti i colori del buio (Sergio Martino, 1972)

73. Eugenie (Jess Franco, 1973).

74. Sette orchidee macchiate di rosso (Umberto Lenzi, 1973)

75. Asesinato en el Orient Express  (Sydney Lumet, 1974)

76. Los nuevos españoles (Roberto Bodegas, 1974)

77. Stavisky (Alain Resnais, 1974)

78. Norma Rae (Martin Ritt, 1979)

79. The China syndrome (James Bridges, 1979)

80. Rollover (Alan J Pakula, 1981).

81. Halloween III (Tommy Lee Wallace, 1983)

82. Local hero (Bill Forsyth, 1983)

83. Silkwood (Mike Nicholls, 1983).

84. Brewster’s millions (Walter Hill, 1985)

85. Baby boom (Charles Shyer, 1987)

86. The secret of my success (Herbert Ross, 1987).

87. Wall Street (Oliver Stone, 1987)

88. Police Story 2 (Jackie Chan, 1988)

89. Tucker: the man and his dream (Francis Ford Coppola, 1988)

90. Working girl (Mike Nichols, 1988)

91. Dealers (Colin Buckley, 1989)

92. Pretty Woman (Garry Marshall, 1990)

93. Other people’s money (Norman Jewison, 1991)

94. Glengarry Glen Ross (James Foley, 1992)

95. Split Second (Tony Maylam, 1992)

96. The distinguished gentleman (Jonathan Lynn, 1992)

97. The Hudsucker proxy (Ethan y Joel Coen, 1994).

98. Dos tontos muy tontos  (Peter Farrelly, 1995)

99. Waterworld (Kevin Reynolds, 1995)

100. Jerry Maguire (Cameron Crowe, 1996)

101. La guerra del opio  (Jin Xie, 1997)

102. Ressources humaines (Laurent Cantet, 1999)

103. Rogue trader (James Dearden, 1999)

104. Boiler room (Ben Younger, 2000)

105. Naufrago  (Robert Zemeckis, 2000)

106. Pan y rosas  (Ken Loach, 2000)

107. El empleo del tiempo  (Laurent Cantet, 2001).

108. The bank (Robert Connolly, 2001)

109. The navigators (Ken Loach, 2001)

110. Smoking room (Roger Gual y Julio D. Wallovits, 2002)

111. Owning Mahowny (Richard Kwietniowski, 2003)

112. El principio de Arquimedes (Gerardo Herrero, 2004)

113. A bittersweet life  (Kim Jee-woon, 2005)

114. Arcadia (Costa Gavras, 2005)

115. Cinderella man (Ron Howard, 2005)

116. El metodo (Marcelo Piñeyro, 2005)

117. Thank you for smoking (Jason Reitman, 2005)

118. The constant gardener (Fernando Meirelles, 2005)

119. A good year (Ridley Scott, 2006)

120. Blood diamond (Edward Zwick, 2006) 

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PAUL HUBSCHMID.

Filmography

1938: Füsilier Wipf

1939: Maria Ilona

1940: Mein Traum

1940: Die missbrauchten Liebesbriefe

1940: Mir lönd nüd lugg

1942: Meine Freundin Josefine

1942: Der Fall Rainer

1943: Wilder Urlaub

1943: Altes Herz wird wieder jung

1944: Der gebieterische Ruf

1944: Liebesbriefe

1945: Das seltsame Fräulein Sylvia

1948: Arlberg-Express

1948: Gottes Engel sind überall

1948: Der himmlische Walzer

1949: Geheimnisvolle Tiefe

1949 - Baghdad

1949: Das Gesetz der Liebe

1950: Il ladro di Venezia

1952: No Time for Flowers

1952: Palace Hotel

1952: Die Venus vom Tivoli

1953: Mit siebzehn beginnt das Leben

1953: The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms

1953: Musik bei Nacht

1953: Maske in Blau

1954: Schule für Eheglück

1954: Ungarische Rhapsodie

1954: Glückliche Reise

1955: Die Frau des Botschafters

1955: Ingrid - Die Geschichte eines Fotomodells

1955: Il tesoro di Rommel

1956: Liebe, die den Kopf verliert

1956: Heute heiratet mein Mann

1956: Du bist Musik

1956: Die goldene Brücke

1956: Salzburger Geschichten

1957: Glücksritter

1957: Die Zürcher Verlobung

1957: Italienreise - Liebe inbegriffen

1958: Scampolo

1958: Death comes Dallo Spazio

1958: Meine schöne Mama

1958: Ihr 106. Geburtstag

1958: The tiger of Esnapur

1959: Das indische Grabmal

1959: Liebe, Luft und lauter Lügen

1959: Alle Tage ist kein Sonntag

1959: Auskunft im Cockpit

1959: Zwei Gitarren

1959: Marili

1960: Heldinnen

1960: Die Rote Hand

1960: Die junge Sünderin

1960: Festival

1961: Die große Reise (TV movie)

1961: Napoléon II L’Aiglon

1961: Isola Bella

1962: Ich bin auch nur eine Frau

1963: Elf Jahre und ein Tag

1963: Das große Liebesspiel

1964: Die Diamantenhölle am Mekong

1964: Die Lady

1964: Le grain de sable

1964: Heirate mich, Chéri

1964: Die schwedische Jungfrau

1965: Moi et les hommes de 40 ans

1965: Dis-moi qui nut

1965: Die Herren

1965: Mozambique

1965: Le majordome

1966: Playgirl

1966: Upperseven, l'uomo da uccidere

1966: Ich suche einen Mann

1966: Ein Gewissen verlangen

1966: A belles dents

1966: Funeral in Berlin

1968: Manon 70

1968: In Enemy Country

1968: Negresco ****

1969: Hotel Royal (TV movie)

1969: A Taste of Excitement

1969: This is Your Captain Speaking (short)

1970: Professor Siebzig und seine Undin

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upperseven 1966. Eurospy English language version.

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-Takeshis’

-Symptoms(1974)

-Zombi

-Resurrection(1999)

-The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires(1974)

-A study in terror(1965)

-Enter the devil(1972)

-Pharaoh’s Curse

-Horror Express

-The house that screamed

-the terror of dr. hichcock

-fangs of the living dead

-look what’s happened to rosemary’s baby

-scared to death(1947)

-Bloody pit of horror

-The creeping terror(1964)

-Devils of Darkness

-Terror in the crypt AKA Crypt of the Vampire(1964)

-crucible of horror

-the great scout and cathouse thursday

-A bed from hell

-Necromancy 1972

-Warlock Moon 1975

-Open House 1987

-Return to Boggy Creek (1977)

-Savage Encounter 1980

-Horror Castle 1963

-Gorgo

-Midnight Offerings 1981

-The ghost 1963

-Hannah,  queen of the vampires

-Assalto al Tesoro di Stato 1966

-Kommissar X 1967

-Last Chance 1967 eurospy

-Top Secret 1967 eurospy with gordon scott

-Kill Agent Gordon with roger browne

-Agent perry grant 1966 Eurospy

-Upperseven 1966

-1965 Roger Browne Eurospy movie

-Mission Phantom 1967

-Supercolpo da 7 miliardi

-008 Operation Stermino

-Goldsnake 1966 Eurospy

-Jerry Cotton: Death and Diamonds (1968)

-Code name jaguar 1965

-death on the run 1967

-James Tont movies

-Borman 1966 Eurospy

-The Tiger Gang 1971

-man on the spying trapeze 1966

-Agent perry grant 1966

-7 Uomini d-oro 1965

-Special Mission Lady Chaplin 1966

-Kill Baby… Kill! 1966

-The long hair of death 1964

-the witches mountain 1971

-bell from hell

-The ravagers 1965

-face to face 1967

-Last days of the boss (BWHOH)

-manhunt 1967

-The Red Silk Gambler

-YOKOHAMA UNDERWORLD: MACHINE GUN DRAGON (1978)

-James Cagney filmography

-Bunta Sugawara

-Okinawa Yakuza War

-Mario Bava’s Rabid Dogs

-La legge della violenza 1969

-Nick the sting 1976

-Private Hell 36

-Violette Noziere 1978

-Mark il Poliziotto

-Convoy Busters

-Ladri Sprint 1967

-The last desperate hours

-Una Donna e una canaglia

-Machine Gun McCain

-Sciarada Per 4 Spie

-Gli Scassinatori

-La Polizia indaga: Siamo Tutti Sospettati

-Tutto a posto e niente in ordine 1974

-Lulu the tool

-Uomini Contro

-Sbatti il mostro in prima pagina

-Cadaveri Eccellenti 1976

-Solo Andata 1970

-San Babila

-Secret Agent Fireball 1965

-Caccia Selvaggia 1981

-Il Professionista

-Napoli… La Camorra Sfida La Citta’Risponde

-Alberto Sordi

-Il Commissario 1962

-Il Terrore con gli Occhi Storti 1972

-Il Vichingo Venuto Dal Sud

-Un caso di coscienza

-Il Crollo di Roma

-Le Capitan Andre hunebelle

-Captain Fracasse

-Rocambloe (1947)

-Gangsters per un massacro

-Il Massacro Della Foresta nera

-La tigre dei sette mari

-Il Corsaro nero

-Shock 1977

-Uccidete il Vitello Grasso e arrostitelo

-Gli orrori del castello di norminberga

-La nottata

-Criminal Affair 1968 with ann margret

-In broad daylight 1971

-Tigers in Lipstick

-The Pyx

-Marilu Henner

-The mistress is served

-La Fidelidad 1970

-Die Herrenreiterin

-Due cuori, una cappella

-Un bellissimo novembre

-Frustrazione peter cushing

-Amarsi sotto la pioggia 1988

-De Minnaar

-Il Debito Coniugale

-Erkekten Beter- La Poliziotta Fa Carriera

-Doppia Coppia con Regina

-Infanzia, vocazione e prime esperienze di Giacomo

-Basta on la guerra… facciamo l’amore

-Snapdragon

-The Wings of the Dove

-Dark Bar

-A Estrela Sobe 1974

-La mansion de la araucaima

-Il Giudice e la Minorenne

-La vedova del trullo

-Marquis de Sade’s Justine

-Malicious with Laura Antonelli

-Lezioni Private 1975

-Gestapo’s last orgy

-La Revolution française (1989)

-Prehistoric Women (1967)

-The Colossus of Rhodes

-Stormquest (1987)

-One Eyed Soliders (1967)

-Vengeance is a dish served cold (1971)

-Charley Parkhurst

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Frankie Machine - Elmer Bernstein & Orchestra • [clip: Murder My Sweet (1944)] • French Quarter - Alex North And His Orchestra • [clip: 5 Against the House (1955)] • Hammer Blow - Skip Martin • Harold's Way - David Amram • [clip: Where Danger Lives (1950)] • The Killer - Lalo Schifrin • Late At Bailey's Pad - Warren Barker & Warner Bros. Star Instrumentalists • M Squad Theme - Stanley Wilson • [clip: Suddenly (1954)] • Mr. Lucky - Henry Mancini • Naked City - Mundell Lowe & His All Stars • Perry Mason Theme - Buddy Morrow [clip: Sudden Fear (1952)] • Peter Gunn - Quincy Jones • Prison Break - Irving Joseph • [clip: Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954)] • Richard Diamond - Buddy Morrow • Riff Blues - Skip Martin • Shoot To Kill - Quincy Jones & His Orchestra • [clip: The Strange Woman (1946)] • Staccato's Theme - Buddy Morrow & His Orchestra • [clip: Public Enemy (1931)] • Stool Pigeon - Irving Joseph • The Deadly Mantis (ft. Johnny Blazes) - Mission Creep •  [clip: Somewhere in the Night (1946)] • Goldfinger - Santo & Johnny • The Secret Arsenal - The Capes and Masks • [clip: Phenix City Story (1955)] • Upperseven, The Man To Kill - Bruno Nicolai & Sabina Montes • Tuo Sguardo Atomico - Mario N. • [clip: Lady From Shanghai (1947)] • A Man Alone (pt. 2) - John Barry • Fantabulous - Sandro Brugnolini • [clip: Out of the Past (1947)] • Deep Down - Ennio Morricone • Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - Bruno Nicolai • [clip: The Killing (1956)] • Let's Try - Piero Umiliani • Rapporto Fuller, Base Stoccolma - Armando Trovaioli & Vania • [clip: Blast Of Silence (1961)] • The Silencers - Patty Seymour • Mister X - Manuel Parada • [clip: Ace In The Hole (1951)] • Ypotron - Nico Fidenco • [clip: Clash By Night (1952)] • Billion Dollar Brain - Richard Rodney Bennett • [clip: Kansas City Confidential (1952)] • Operation Lady Chaplin - Bruno Nicolai & Bobby Solo • [clip: G-Men (1935)] • Duemafioso contra Goldginger (main title) - Piero Umiliani • Modesty Blaise - Dalida • Supercolpo Shake - Nico Fidenco • Pygar's Persecution::The Chamber of Dreams - Bob Crewe • Satanik (seq. 17) - Roberto Pregadio & Romano Mussolini • [download]

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Upperseven, The Man To Kill-Bruno Nicolai & Sabina Montes • Tuo Sguardo Atomico-Mario N. • A Man Alone-John Barry • Fantabulous-Sandro Brugnolini • Deep Down-Ennio Morricone • Kiss Kiss Bang Bang-Bruno Nicolai • Let's Try-Piero Umiliani • Flashman-Franco Tamponi • Alexander-The Boots • Ypotron-Nico Fidenco • Rapporto Fuller, Base Stoccolma-Armando Trovaioli & Vania • Mister X-Manuel Parada • Billion Dollar Brain-Richard Rodney Bennett - Operation Lady Chaplin-Bruno Nicolai & Bobby Solo • [clip: Dr. No (1962)] • Duemafioso contra Goldginger - Piero Umiliani • Modesty Blaise-Dalida • Supercolpo Shake-Nico Fidenco • Lucky The Inscrutable (1967)-Bruno Nicolai • Satanik-Roberto Pregadio & Romano Mussolini • Let The Love Come Through-Roland Shaw & His Orchestra • A Night With Nuki-Brian Marshall Orchestra • Tiffany Sequence(From, "THE TIFFANY MEMORANDUM" or "IL MISTERO DELL'OMBRA" (Italy, 1967)-Riz Ortolani • Molotow Cocktail Party-Vivi Bach & Dietmar Schönherr • Knyom Mun Sok Jet Te: "I'm Unsatisfied”-Pan Ron • Wooly Bully-Ros Sereysothea, Sinn Sisamouth and Friends • Jam 5 Kai Thiet: "Wait 5 More Months”-Ros Sereysothea + Seang Vanthy • Trip-Kaygisizlar • Yuvajon Kouge Jet "Broken Heart Man”-Yol Aularong • Ghabileh-ye Lily-Mehr Pooya • Wait for Me-Roger Damawuzan • [clip:  Jean Seberg & Jean-Paul Belmondo Breathless (1960)] • L’adorable Femme Des Neiges-Christie Laume • La Nuit N'en Finit Plus-Petula Clark • Partie De Dames-Liz Brady • Gilgamis-Apaslar • The Man Who Must Leave-Kim Sun • What You Can Do In Your Life-Petalouda • Bairaag Dance Music-Kalyanji Anandji • Wollsiegel Party-Orchester Udo Gerlach • Meri Aakhon Mein Ek Sapna Hai-Sapan Jagmohan • Butterfly-Keith Kanga • Luchs-Theo Schumann Combo • Honigmond-Die Alexanders • Elektron-Tanzorchester Des Berliner Rundfunks • [download]

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A look at the spy genre. Specifically that action packed international flavor that flourished during the hight of the Cold War. Spy stories have been with us since the battle of Troy but internationalskullduggery and intrigue really took off in the 20th century with the two world wars. The spy film genre began with a merger between the paranoid invasion literature popular during WW1 and the invention of motion pictures during and after and produced such features as False Faces, The Mysterious X and the Fritz Lang Spies and Dr. Mabuse series. The lead up to WW2 offered new adversaries and Hollywood obliged with the work of Alfred Hitcock and the writer John Maquand (author of the Mr. Moto series). After the war we of course traded nazi villains for soviet villains and the Cold War was on. Due to the clandestine and proxy-war aspects of the Cold War, espionage and skullduggery was at the forefront - in life and in art. Again, Hollywood and literature obliged with a plethora of new work from Len Deighton, John Le Career and of course Ian Fleming. Fleming in particular pushed a somewhat more fantastical version of clandestine work and added action elements that - while maybe a little unrealistic - resonated with audiences in the 50s and 60s. A sub-genre was born and Bond films and imitators were churned out throughout the world. Of course these films needed soundtracks and some great work was put into service providing sonic action for the  physical action on screen. You’ll also notice that composers of this era were particularly adept at melding older big band arrangements with the emerging tropes of rock and psychedelia. Think of that iconic guitar twang intro on the Bond films. 

As the Cold War raged around the globe and jet setting spies fought each other on the silver screen, a major focus of that war - at least here in the US was Southeast Asia. The influx of GIs and western media had a profound effect on the local culture and - as kids will do everywhere - kids wanted to be a part of it. In the 60s, this meant western music and fashion and local rock bands grew up by the hundreds. Cheap Korean and Japanese instruments were available there (as they were here) and southeast asian garage bands proliferated. Due to the situation on the ground however, the music tended to concentrate in slightly more stable areas such as Thailand, Malaysia and (at least for a while) Cambodia rather than Vietnam proper. The Cambodian scene produced some of the liveliest music with bands melding pop, surf, psych and traditional Khmer melodies working out this transcultural melange at teen dances and hotel bars for locals and GIs alike.  Sadly, many of these Cambodian musicians met a terrible fate as the Khmer Rouge swept through in 1975 and those who could not escape or conceal their pre-war musical endeavors (everything from playing a musical instrument to having an education to wearing eyeglasses was considered a crime against the state) were killed or imprisoned. Fortunately, there are today some 2nd and third generation Cambodians - and allies - working to revive the memory and music of these fantastic players. Check out some of the music and research work done by Chom Nimol and Ethan Holtzman from the west coast  band Dengue Fever.