Maciste, l'eroe più grande del mondo (1963)


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Re: Maciste, l'eroe più grande del mondo (1963)

Post by Johan Melle » 09/11/2021, 23:22

9-10: Looks like Enzo Mondino (in a second role?)

11: Man in the back on the right (with blue cap) is the Lancio Barman.

12-14 and 19: Franco Beltramme.

22: Galimberti again.

30: On the far right in red is Nando Sarlo (also in pic 63).

32: First from the left is Giuseppe Marrocu (he is also second from the left in pic 69 and first from the left in 97).

44: The from the left is Sergio Mioni (also in pic 46 and in a different costume in pic 47). First from the right is Giovanni Bonadonna again.

45: First from the left is Elio Bonadonna again (also in 48-49)?

60: Looks like Vezio Natili.

82: First from the left looks like Fortunato Arena to me.

88: Romano Moraschini.

Finally, the man identified as Cesare Martignoni is not him.

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Post by PeplumParadise » 09/11/2021, 23:47

Here's the real Martignoni, never seen fully in focus. I'd assumed that was also him since Pascucci and Mari appear in both scenes, but seeing them side by side it obviously isn't (and Pascucci and the not-Martignoni miraculously swap costumes - or both shopped at the same store :tears_smile: ).
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Re: Maciste, l'eroe più grande del mondo (1963)

Post by Ciavazzaro » 10/11/2021, 1:50

And man in orange in pic 3 should be the big hairless man
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Re: Maciste, l'eroe più grande del mondo (1963)

Post by stevenhorrorsmith » 10/11/2021, 7:34

The guard, second from the right, in 27 and 69 looks like Mirko Valentin.

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Re: Maciste, l'eroe più grande del mondo (1963)

Post by FatmanDan » 10/11/2021, 12:03

Susani, again, 97 in the middle.

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Re: Maciste, l'eroe più grande del mondo (1963)

Post by Johan Melle » 10/11/2021, 17:10

stevenhorrorsmith wrote:
10/11/2021, 7:34
The guard, second from the right, in 27 and 69 looks like Mirko Valentin.
Yes, absolutely! I knew the face was familiar, but I just couldn't recall the name. He's Valentin for sure.

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Re: Maciste, l'eroe più grande del mondo (1963)

Post by stevenhorrorsmith » 11/11/2021, 0:11

PeplumParadise wrote:
09/11/2021, 22:38
Could 106 be Reg Park stunt-doubling for Mark Forest? The body certainly looks like his. Park hadn't made any films where he was clean shaven at this point, so it can't be re-used footage. Forest always used a stunt double and they were usually very obvious and looked nothing like him.
Reg Park in 106 and 107 doubling for Forest i'd say no but he does look like Park face-wise but not body-wise.

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Re: Maciste, l'eroe più grande del mondo (1963)

Post by PeplumParadise » 11/11/2021, 9:49

stevenhorrorsmith wrote:
11/11/2021, 0:11
PeplumParadise wrote:
09/11/2021, 22:38
Could 106 be Reg Park stunt-doubling for Mark Forest? The body certainly looks like his. Park hadn't made any films where he was clean shaven at this point, so it can't be re-used footage. Forest always used a stunt double and they were usually very obvious and looked nothing like him.
Reg Park in 106 and 107 doubling for Forest i'd say no but he does look like Park face-wise but not body-wise.
Only in 106, it was the body I thought looked most like Park - chest, shoulders and arms anyway! I can't think of many Italian stuntmen who had that kind of physique, Emilio Messina maybe, but he was also a lot hairier and clearly not his face.

107 I think is yet another body double, one who actually looks a bit like Forest, which makes a change - did Tony Blair do stunt work before becoming a politician?.

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Re: Maciste, l'eroe più grande del mondo (1963)

Post by PeplumParadise » 11/11/2021, 10:02

The shaven-headed gong-banger in 70 is identified by IMDb as being Pietro Ceccarelli. You don't really see him any more clearly in the film, but you do in this publicity still. In my opinion this is not Ceccarelli, but what do others think?
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Re: Maciste, l'eroe più grande del mondo (1963)

Post by PeplumParadise » 11/11/2021, 11:02

Johan Melle wrote:
09/11/2021, 23:22
9-10: Looks like Enzo Mondino (in a second role?)

88: Romano Moraschini.

82: First from the left looks like Fortunato Arena to me.
I'm not sure whether we can call this a second role for Mondino or not. It's in the same scene playing the same character of Citizen of Nefer, but wearing a different bath robe (for want of a better description). I've since noticed that several of the other whitebeards in this scene appear in multiple costumes, so if Mondino is playing multiple roles then presumably they are too.

I can see it's Moraschini, but are those his real teeth? I don't recall ever seeing that he had such bad (or big) dental work!

The only one I'm not certain about is Arena. I can see the likeness, but not the facial lines which are a big identifying feature and the eyebrows seem maybe too thin. Unfortunately this is all you see of him. It probably is him, but let's see what others think?
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