Kami asks for this month’s Bear Blog Carnival to write about a favourite in our niche hobby, and I went for my favourite spaghetti western character. It is a genre filled with iconic characters bought to life by great actors. There is of course Clint Eastwood’s so called Man With No Name from the three Leone films. There is Django from Corbucci’s film of the same name that came so popular that a plethora of cheap knock off films included Django in the title or named characters without being in any way related to the original. We have the McGyver type weapons expert in the Sabata films, and several films with a man named Ringo - bit of the same phenomenon as with Django. However, my personal favourite is Sartana. Five official Sartana-films were made in the span of 2 years. Gianni Garko played Sartana in four of them and four of them directed by Giuliano Carnimeo. What was clear to me from the first scene in the first film, If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death, was that they wanted…
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