Get Mean
Larry King Gets Mean
After GET MEAN was released in 1976, I was in Miami and a publicist scheduled me to be interviewed by Larry King on his radio show. Larry interviewed me and we spoke about the film and my rock and roll Read more…
After GET MEAN was released in 1976, I was in Miami and a publicist scheduled me to be interviewed by Larry King on his radio show. Larry interviewed me and we spoke about the film and my rock and roll Read more…
As I posted earlier, I had to arrive in Almeria with cash or everyone was leaving the filming and it would be all over. The crew would scatter to the four corners. At the very last minute and I mean Read more…
We had run out of money and Tony told me that I had to come to Almeria with $50,000 or else everyone would leave and we were screwed. To be more specific “Tony had previously told me that the Read more…
My topic heading refers to a mistake that a lot of film producers make.. don’t start without all the money!!! Tony told me that we had to begin production on our next spaghetti western. I don’t recall the actual working Read more…
This will be the first time that I have told of this–As Tony took “The Stranger” into other realms, we had someone else that believed in the concept, Stan Lee. I met with Stan after we were finished with “BEAT Read more…
I was going thru my own home movies, old 8 mm, and I found a few clips. This one is from Silent Stranger when The Stranger arrives in Japan with his horse. this is the set up of the shot Read more…
We were all in a bar in Kyoto when our director spotted a man playing pool who had an amazing tatoo on his back. Vanzi had our interpreter ask the man if he would like to be in a film. Read more…
This is how and where we ate most of the time while filming SILENT STRANGER.. in order below…Lloyd Battista, me and Tony Anthony
We shot The Silent Stranger in Kyoto, Japan. I didn’t know from Earthquakes, I was an East Coast guy and then I was on the set in Kyoto when the high strung lights on the set began to sway. Japan Read more…
It’s the Weapon, Stupid.. Tony always wanted a special weapon to differentiate him from the six gun toting cowboy.. In Get Mean he went for a quadruple barreled short shot gun but in Silent Stranger he went for a Big Read more…