Here’s the Zardoz trailer in all it’s glory! It was created by the great Pablo Ferro. Pablo has done some incredible trailers like for instance Dr. Strangelove, A clockwork Orange, Z, . He also has created title sequences for Dr. Stangelove, Bullitt, Midnight Cowboy, Harold and Maude, A Clockwork Orange and many others. I will be posting a podcast interview with Pablo in the near future, so in the meantime I’ll upload some of his work as a preview of coming attractions.
P.S. I noticed that there is a cut in the trailer,after the line “The Gun Is Good” and after the giant head vomits guns all over Sean Connery and his men, the Giant head should say “The Penis Is Evil”. I guess the word “penis” is a no no, or maybe the censor really believes that the penis is evil so they castrated the trailer.
Here’s a trailer from what many consider the first giallo, La Ragazza che sapeva troppo, released in the USA as The Evil Eye. Directed by Mario Bava, the genre maker, starring John Saxon, Leticia Roman, and Valentina Cortese. I read an interview with John Saxon a few years back and he talked about how he got involved with this project. Leticia Roman contacted him and, representing herself as a producer working on the film, offered him the part. After some haggling Saxon accepted. Then, unbeknownst to John Saxon, she approached Mario Bava and said she represented Saxon and if Bava wanted him for the movie, he would have to give Leticia the female lead! Bava agreed and she got the part. During filming (according to the interview) Bava became infatuated with Leticia and was pressuring her to submit to his desires. She told him John Saxon was in love with her and he’s better back off as Saxon was jealous and would walk off the film or worse. Bava left her alone, Saxon knew nothing of all this at the time, he found out later. So here’s to Leticia Roman, a grandmaster of the chessboard of Cinema hustling.
