Duccio Tessari
Duccio Tessari( 11 October 1926 – 6 September 1994) was an Italian director, screenwriter and actor, considered one of the fathers of spaghetti westerns.
Born in Genoa, Tessari started in the fifties as documentarist and as screenwriter of peplum films.
In 1964 he co-wrote Sergio Leone's" A Fistful of Dollars", one year later he gained an impressive commercial success and launched the Giuliano Gemma's career with" A Pistol for Ringo" and its immediate sequel," The Return of Ringo".
He later touched different genres and worked in RAI TV, directing some successful TV- series.
He died of cancer in Rome, at 68.
He was married to actress Lorella De Luca.
The Return of Ringo
The Return of Ringo is a 1965 Italian spaghetti western film directed by Duccio Tessari and the sequel to the earlier film" A Pistol for Ringo".
Like its predecessor, the film stars Giuliano Gemma and features a score composed by Ennio Morricone.
The film's story is a loose retelling of Homer's" Odyssey".
Richard Fleischer
Richard O. Fleischer( December 8, 1916 – March 25, 2006) was an American film director known for such movies as" The Narrow Margin"( 1952)," 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea"( 1954)," Fantastic Voyage"( 1966), the Oscar- award winning musical film" Doctor Dolittle"( 1967) and" Soylent Green"( 1973).
Matt Corboy
Matt Corboy( born June 4, 1973) is an American actor.
He has appeared in both films and television series.
The Narrow Margin
The Narrow Margin is a 1952 American film noir directed by Richard Fleischer and written by Earl Felton, based on an unpublished story written by Martin Goldsmith and Jack Leonard.
The screenplay by Earl Felton was nominated for an Academy Award.
The picture stars Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, and Jacqueline White.
It was released by RKO Radio Pictures.
A police detective plays a deadly game of cat- and- mouse aboard a train with mob assassins out to stop a slain gangster's widow before she can testify before a grand jury.
Narrow Margin
Narrow Margin is a 1990 American crime thriller film directed by Peter Hyams and released by TriStar Pictures, loosely based on the 1952 film noir" The Narrow Margin".
It tells the story of a Los Angeles deputy district attorney who attempts to keep a murder witness safe from hit men while traveling through the Canadian wilderness aboard a train.
The film stars Gene Hackman and Anne Archer.
Giuliano Gemma
Giuliano Gemma
( 2 September 1938 – 1 October 2013) was an Italian actor.
He is best known internationally for his work in Spaghetti Westerns, particularly for his performances as the title character in Duccio Tessari's" A Pistol for Ringo"( 1965), Captain Montgomery Brown/' Ringo' in Tessari's" The Return of Ringo"( 1965), the title character in Michele Lupo's" Arizona Colt"( 1966), Scott Mary in Tonino Valerii's" Day of Anger"( 1967) and Michael" California" Random in Lupo's" California"( 1977).
Jacqueline White
Jacqueline Jane White( born November 27, 1922) is an American actress perhaps best remembered for her appearances in" Crossfire" and" The Narrow Margin".
She worked for both MGM and RKO in the 1940s and 1950s.
A Pistol for Ringo
A Pistol for Ringo is a 1965 Spaghetti Western, a joint Italian and Spanish production.
Originally written and directed by Duccio Tessari, the film's success led to a sequel," The Return of Ringo", later that year.
The film stars Giuliano Gemma( billed as' Montgomery Wood') alongside Fernando Sancho, Nieves Navarro, George Martin, Antonio Casas, José Manuel Martín and Hally Hammond.
Antonio Casas
Antonio Casas( 11 November 1911 in A Coruña, Galicia, Spain – 14 February 1982 in Madrid, Spain) was a Spanish footballer turned film actor who appeared in film between 1941 and his death in 1982.
Casas originally began as a footballer for Atlético Madrid, but entered film in 1941 and made nearly 170 appearances in film and TV between then and 1982.
He appeared in" A Pistol for Ringo" in 1965 and Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Western" The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" in 1966.
One of his best- known roles was in Luis Buñuel's" Tristana".
In the early 1970s he worked in television but returned to film after 1975 until his death.
He died on 14 February 1982 in Madrid at age 70.

Question: Do both films A Pistol for Ringo and The Narrow Margin have the directors from the same country?
Answer: no