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Art Hansl Movie Clips from Taste of the Savage, 1973, One of the Goriest Western Movies Ever Made

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Channel: Michael B. Butler Books · 2011 · Entertainment

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Art Hansl Movie Clip from Taste of the Savage, filmed in 1973, that has to rank as one of the goriest western movies ever made.  Fashioned in the Sam Peckinpah style of slow motion violence, this movie also starred Cameron Mitchell and popular Mexicon actress Isela Vega.  

Art Hansl tells in his autobiography, FLASHBACKS, about the making of this movie and the many others during his ten-year movie career from 1965 to 1975.  During the first five years he was starrging European movies from mainly Italian companies during what Art calls the La Dolce Vita period of Italian cinema, duirng which many major American movie stars were making the trek to appear in Italian movies.  He worked in Venice, Italy, Casablanca, Eastern Euopre, and many other exotic locations.  

Art Hansl, after his acting career, became an successful author of popular suspense novels before writing his autobioraphy, FLASHBACKS, which chronicles his fascinating journey from rich kid during the Depression to joining the Marines after the family fortune waned and then on to partying in Acapulco before it become well known and then appearing as a leading man in European and Italian movies. Then the scene goes to making movies all over Central and South America before embarking on a successful writing career beginning in 1975.  His novels are highly engaging and his experience in movies, combined with a flair for the dramatic, bring forth a winning formula.  For more about Art Hansl go to www.arthansl.com

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