Bob Robertson?
Surely this one also is directed by the great Sergio Leone. Or what? So... why do I read in the opening credits "Directed by Bob Robertson"? WTF?! Someone enlighten me, please. Or is this a change to Alan Smithee...
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Oops: it is his aka.
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Spaghetti Westerns were supposed to be sold as "real" american westerns - only cheaper.
So most italians involved changed their names in something more "american" as it helped to sell.
Giuliano Gemma shoot most "Ringo" as Mongomery Wood, for example. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0312575/
Sergio Leone used "Bob Robertson" because his father Vincenzo Leone was an actor between the world wars, with the screen name of Roberto Roberti.
So Sergio Leone apperared as "Robert, son of Robert" as an homage to his father.
Only when Leone's works got some interest, and Spaghetti westerns lost part of the dreaded cheap movie fame, Sergio Leone started to be there with his real name, and his movies re-sold as "Leone's film".
Thanks so much for your informative answer Locomotiva1, that was a good read! It's probably somewhere to be read amongst the trivia, but I honestly didn't know. Newbie!
Sergio Leone's name is on the sleeve of the DVD I just purchased, and I was a little surprised to see and read "Director - Robert Robertson" so prominent on screen at the end of the credits sequence when watching it.
So they never changed or altered the credits sequences of new releases of the same film then?
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No, they changed just the covers and some posters to point out Leone's name.
But credits were animated, so they would need time and money to change it, at the time.
So they left all as it was.
Now, it's a classic, probably nobody want to modify it.
True, and it adds to the cult status thus allowing it to give it a story within a story.
I did notice a director's name not being so prominent on sleeves and posters of films and DVD's in general, when it is not a famous name. Often a more wellknown name of an actor is used to pull attention (so they might have called this "a Clint Eastwood movie" after he hit fame a couple of years after doing this obscure movie). In this case, "a Sergio Leone film" is enough to make me order "Per un pugno di dollari (1964)"!
I read on the board here it is to be regarded as one of a series of three, I know the best one already of course: "The Good, The Bad and the Ugly". And then there is "For A Few Dollars More", right? I'll follow up on some interesting discussions here on the board regarding this threesome.
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Thanks for sharing that bit of trivia information Locomotiva1.
It's interesting to know those kind of things about movies.
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