the protagonists of the Western all'italiana is the character played by Tony Anthony "Stranger" to the most unusual series Held: a more carrier-Loner, only driven by his greed, cowardly and conniving, but usually the victim rolled out torture and humiliation, at the end also always the one that is pulled across the table. In short, a veritable anti-hero, almost a comic figure, with which the Western as a completely mythical hero story in Europe the head was found.
Before the 1937 staggered in Clarksburg, West Virginia as Roger Pettito born actor z to Spaghetti Westerns, Anthony studied at the prestigious drama school, The Actors' Studio in New York his craft and was among others for the feminist filmmaker and Fellini student of Lina Wertmuller in front of the camera. Between 1967 and 1981 he was then in six spaghetti westerns that were each significant in its own way for the genre. Anthony's first two spaghetti westerns, the minimalist Un Dollaro tra i denti (One U.S. dollar between the teeth; 1967) and the most ironic Un uomo, un cavallo, una pistola (Jack Western, 1967), established and directed by Luigi Vanzi the anti-social, lazy "hero" type, the Anthony should remain faithful to his career. With the majority in Japan turned Lo Straniero Tues silenzio aka The Silent Stranger (The nightmare of Kung-Fu, 1968) presented the team the following year the first Italian-Asian Western fusion and transformed Anthony nameless stranger to Japan, where should he fail in Empire of Signs (Roland Barthes) to just his inability to read the foreign characters. In Baldi's three years later developed, as well as consuming trashy Zatôichi variation Blindman aka Il cieco ( Blindman, the executor ) joined Anthony on next Ex-Beatle Ringo Starr (!) As a blind (!) Gunslinger. In 1981 he took over the lead in Baldi's bizarre genre-crossover Get Mean (Time Breaker, 1981), which was somewhere between a Viking movie, Twilight Zone , Peplum, spaghetti westerns and fantasy trash and ten years later obvious source of inspiration for Sam Raimi's Army of Darkness (1992) should be. Anthony's last Western is also a curiosity because Comin 'at Ya (Everything you blow up your ears; 1981) is still the only 3-D-spaghetti western. In the United States was first listed in 1981, Western spark a new wave of 3-D films.
Given the current boom in 3-D films, Anthony has decided to bring his classic now back on the big screen. On the newly established Homepage of the film is announced, one for $ 700,000 in digital 3-D transformed and restored version of Comin 'at Ya as "Leaner & Meaner" Cut for a cinema restart. Here is also an English interview with the actor. If all goes well, then I'll soon be an interview with Anthony. Soon more about this ...
Above: Production Still shooting of Comin 'at Ya 
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