The Hard Way - Publicity Artwork

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Location: Daganzo - Estudios Madrid 70

The western town of Daganzo de Arriba was built in 1970 by the producer Phillip Yordan and the company Mole Richardson. These studios were named Estudios Madrid 70. The set consisted of a main street with several buildings on the sides and a Mexican fortress.

Three 3 LVC movies were shot here; Captain Apache, Bad Man's River, and The Stranger & The Gunfighter

In 1979, when the spaghetti western already had disappeared, the producer and director Juan Piquer Simón purchased the studies are renamed them as Estudios Daganzo. The set was used in the filming of seven other films of different genres. The town remained standing until 1985 year that it was destroyed by fire.

I visited this location in 2015, and there is very little left that is recognizable.  Still existing is part of the fortress wall, the main church wall, and a water trough.

First here are some pictures of the location as it existed in the the 1970's...

and today...

and a few comparisons...

Captain Apache

Stranger & Gunfighter

Escape From New York Coming to 4k UHD in UK

Coming November 26, 2018!

This 4 disc limited Collector’s Edition of John Carpenter’s classic Escape from New York has been stunningly restored in 4K. This release is beautifully packaged with a stylish, newly commissioned illustration on the cover. It contains a UHD of the feature as well as a Blu-ray feature disc, extra features disc and the original soundtrack on CD. It also contains 5 artcards, a newly illustrated theatrical poster and booklet containing behind the scenes stills, articles and an essay from celebrated film journalist Kim Newman. The year is 1997 and in a police state future the island of Manhattan has been turned into a maximum security prison. The rules are simple: once you’re in, you don’t come out. But when the President of the United States (Donald Pleasance) crash lands an escape pod into the centre of the city after fleeing a hijacked plane, a ruthless prison warden (Lee Van Cleef) bribes ex-soldier and criminal Snake Plisskin into entering the hazardous Manhattan and rescuing the distraught president from the twisted world of New York and from the demented clutches of its new ruler The Duke (Isaac Hayes) in John Carpenter’s cyber-punk, action, suspense spectacular.


4 discs (1 UHD, 1 Blu-ray feature, 1 Blu-ray extras, 1 CD Soundtrack)

1 poster

5 artcards

48 page book

Extras:

• Purgatory: Entering John Carpenter’s ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK: A brand new feature-length documentary featuring interviews with Writer Nick Castle, cinematographer Dean Cundey, composer Alan Howarth, production designer Joe Alves, special visual effects artist/model maker Gene Rizzardi, production assistant David De Coteau, photographer Kim Gottleib-Walker, Carpenter biographer John Muir, visual effects historian Justin Humphreys, and music historian Daniel Schweiger.
• Snake Plissen: Man of Honor – featurette from 2005 featuring interviews with John Carpenter and Debra Hill
• Intro by John Carpenter - an interview with director John Carpenter originally recorded for a French DVD release in 2003
• Deleted Opening Sequence “Snake’s Crime” with Optional Audio Commentary
• Photo gallery incl. Behind the Scenes
• Original Trailers
• Audio Commentary with actor Kurt Russell & director John Carpenter
• Audio Commentary with Producer Debra Hill and production designer Joe Alves
• Big Challenges in Little Manhatten: Visual effects featurette – from 2015, features interviews with both Dennis Skotak, Director of Photography of Special VFX, and Robert Skotak, Unit Supervisor and Matte Artist
• I am Taylor - Interview with actor Joe Unger – from 2015
• Audio Commentary with actress Adrienne Barbeau & DOP Dean Cundey

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Escape-New-York-Collectors-Blu-Ray/dp/B07H53CVPQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1536681986&sr=8-1&keywords=escape+from+new+york

Location: La Sartenilla - Big Punchout

Near Tabernas, Spain, there is a location known as La Sartenilla. This was the desolate area famously used in the opening of The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly. In the film Sabata, this area served as the location of the film's finale

In The Big Gundown, it briefly serves as the location where Corbett is rescued after a walk through the desert, only to steal his rescuer's horse to continue is pursuit of Cuchillo.  Comparison sequence below-

Publicity Photos from "The American Civil War" 1985

Never publicly released publicity photos of Lee Van Cleef as the host/narrator of the documentary, "The American Civil War". They were shot on location at The Banning Residence Museum in Southern California in 1985. The program aired several time in 1986 and 1987 on KABC-TV

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