As the ‘money man’, ‘suit’, or business guy, the troops rebelled and to show strength over mental acumen they attempted to Kiss me… Note Tony’s stuntman double, hence the attack of the two Tony’s… The other intent looking individual holding my legs is Vincenzo Cerami * –Vincenzo also co Read more…
The inside story… In the opening sequence of Silent Stranger you see a magnificent mountain peak that pans down to ‘the Stranger’ hollering, ‘Pussy!’ The scene is from a location identified as the ‘Klondike 1884″. Pussy is the name of his horse and the Klondike is the Italian side of 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 of the horse being pulled on a raft.. First is 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. He asked where we were filming and when told he 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 introduced me to my first earthquake and my only triple 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 One…
When we did the scene in the script where the Stranger arrives in Japan via boat, we were hindered by the lack of wind. If you ever see the film you will be able to see that the sails are going in the opposite direction of the boat. This was Read more…
We had to shoot two versions of the usual Japanese hot tub scene. The chaste covered in a white sheet version as seen elsewhere on my blog for the US and censored markets and the topless version for Europe. (An aside—on one of our infrequent days off, I did decide Read more…