Pietro Martellanza
Also Known As: Peter Martell, Pietro Martellanz, Peter Martellanz, Peter Martel, Pete Martell
Biography: Italian actor, born in 1938 in the Northern Italian city of Bolzano. The handsome and charismatic Martellanza (often billed as Peter Martell) starred in over 40 films beginning in the 1960s, with his biggest successes in westerns, playing both heroes and villains. It is widely reported that in 1970, Martell was hired as the star of Enzo Barboni’s comedy western Lo chiamavano Trinità (THEY CALL ME TRINITY) but after suffering an injury was replaced by Terence Hill, who rocketed to stardom in the film. Martell died in 2010, aged 72.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bolzano, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy
Adult: No
Birthday: September 30, 1938
Age: 86 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: February 01, 2010
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Tears of Kali
Overview: Helmed by writer-director Andreas Marschall - and a piece of fiction passing as fact - the direct-to-video horror indie Tears of Kali returns to the early eighties and plunges into a nightmarish scenario wrought when several EST-like groups establish themselves in India. One of the more extreme communes, the Taylor-Eriksson cult, carries its "quest for self-knowledge" to a malevolent end, with numerous group members trapped, tortured, murdered and mutilated. Tears of Kali tells their twisted and disturbing story. Mathieu Carriere, Peter Martell, Cora Chilcott, Vronie Kiefer, and Nuran Celik head the ensemble cast.
Genres: Fantasy Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2004-03-26
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Momo
Overview: Momo is a young orphan girl who lives in the ruins of an old Roman amphitheater and becomes friends with everybody in the neighborhood. But when a powerful international corporation starts stealing everybody’s time, nobody has any time left for her, let alone their friends or families. Momo, together with Master Hora, the custodian of time, are the only ones who can go up against the time thieves before all is lost forever.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Science Fiction Family Mystery
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1986-07-16
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War Between the Planets
Overview: Scientists try to prevent a collision between Earth and a planet that is heading for it.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-07-29
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The Bloody Judge
Overview: Horror icon Christopher Lee, who worked with Jess Franco on several occasions, plays Lord George Jeffreys, the infamous and merciless judge and Lord Chancellor in England torn by strife between the reigning King James II and William of Orange. Convincend of doing what's necessary, the cruel judge mercilessly persecutes "traitors" who sympathize with the King's opponent William of Orange. As well as "witches" who are accused of being in league with the devil...
Genres: Horror History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-02-05
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Forgotten Pistolero
Overview: Mann is a gunman informed by a childhood friend that his father was murdered years earlier by his mother and her lover. To make matters worse, Mann's sister, who is in love with his friend, is held under the thumb of his murderous mom. The two gunmen ride off to have a reckoning with her.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-10-17
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Ringo: The Lone Rider
Overview: A town is being terrorized by a gang of marauders led by Bill Anderson, a clever bandit boss. The town's leadership is deciding to do something against the problem, but it does not believe bringing in the military will be a solution. It is agreed upon that they will request help from the well-known Pinkerton agency. At the same time, Ringo, a gunslinger, is chasing after the bandits. He suspects a deeper-sitting conspiracy than random bandit assaults. He joins forces with the newly arrived under cover Pinkerton agent, to uncover a plot between a local businessman, the Mexican revolution and bandit's heist loot of gold. But the bandits have long planned to move on. Disguised as Mormons, they are moving west to start a new life of farming during the day and robbing stage coaches at night. Ringo and the agent track them down....
Genres: Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-02-15
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The Cobra
Overview: A disgraced treasury agent Mike Rand, who teams with his boss to halt a Red Chinese plot to destroy the free world by flooding the market with opium and turning everyone into addicts. Along the way he manages to bed junkie Lou, get into various fights and destroy the refinery that is ending out the drugs.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-03-25
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Death Walks at Midnight
Overview: Valentina, a beautiful fashion model, takes an experimental drug as part of a scientific experiment. While influenced by the drug, Valentina has a vision of a young woman being brutally murdered with a viciously spiked glove. It turns out that a woman was killed in exactly the same way not long ago and soon Valentina finds herself stalked by the same killer.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-11-17
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This Man Can't Die
Overview: An undercover government agent sets out for revenge upon those responsible for the murder of his parents and the assault of his sister.
Genres: Western Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-04-05
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The Unholy Four
Overview: A young man who has lost his memory, escapes from prison with three other convicts. The other men help him find back bits of his past, until they arrive at a village where two warring families recognize him. Apparently he has a reputation for being a fast gun, and he has been paid to kill a man - who says he is his father. His younger brother is jealous of the attention the prodigal son receives, and things come to a dramatic end.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-03-11
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Fury of Johnny Kid
Overview: Two family clans have always been enemies; they spend their time hating and killing each other. The daughter of the Campos family and the son of the Mounter family fall in love, thus causing further hatred and deaths.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-03-02
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Date for a Murder
Overview: Two friends from America come together by chance in the Italian countryside. They decide to meet in Rome after both have done private deals. When one then not show up in Rome starts the other one become suspicious and fearful that something has happened to him. He begins to investigate the case himself and ends up in a spiral of industrial espionage, blackmail, and cold-blooded murder ...
Genres: Thriller Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-05-17
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His Name Was Pot, but They Called Him Allegria
Overview: Two brothers, Ray and Pot, exercise their bank robbing talents. They rob and get robbed in rapid succession. After acquiring a new partner (Steve) and accumulating a good haul, Ray is killed for the gold and Steve is captured by Lobo, a Mexican bandit.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-11-26
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Lola Colt
Overview: A traveling "corps de ballet" is stranded in a small Western town, where the town is being terrorized by an outlaw named El Diablo. In order to hold the town at bay, he is holding several citizens as hostages. In an exciting turn of events, a medical student and Lola Colt, one of the dancers, rebel against El Diablo in an attempt to rescue the hostages.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-10-22
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God Made Them... I Kill Them
Overview: A bounty-hunter is hired by the residents of a small town on the Mexican border to stop a series of gold robberies by marauding outlaws who are coordinated by the town's corrupt banker.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-04-29
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The Long Day of the Massacre
Overview: When sheriff Joe Williams is unjustly accused of the murder of a young couple, which was in reality committed by the Mexican "La Muerte", Joe becomes a wanted man. Joe manages to steal and hide the loot from a bank robbery committed by the Mexican gang, but then is captured by them, but the new sheriff, Joe's friend, is on their trail.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-08-29
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May God Forgive You... But I Won't
Overview: While Cjamango is away from his ranch, bandits attack and kill his family. Disrupted by this tragedy, he sets out to take his revenge, helped by a Mexican who has seen the bandits. The writer of the western Cjamango directed this unofficial sequel to Cjamango.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-08-13
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Safari Express
Overview: John and Howard work in a company named Safari Express booking tourists on safaris. Their lives are turned upside down when they encounter a beautiful blonde wandering in the jungle who doesn't know who she is. They also discover uranium and what appear to be some well-mannered simians.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-01-05
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Melancholie der Engel
Overview: Germany. Two friends - Katze and Brauth - meet again after a long time in a sad context, to share their last days of life in an old house lost in the countryside. They invite a group of people (two minors, a woman, an elderly man and his younger companion who moves in a wheelchair) with the aim of putting into practice their most twisted fantasies, giving life to a nihilistic orgy with disconcerting results.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-05-01
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Patience Has a Limit, We Don't
Overview: During the Civil War, Union Corporal MacDonald is entrusted with a large shipment of gold. He decides to keep the cargo, and stashes it for later rescue. He is the only one who knows where it's buried, but is killed. A Union Lieutenant and McDonald's two sons race to find out where the gold is buried.
Genres: Western Comedy Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-09-27
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Clattering Chastity Belts
Overview: Well, who says that they were chaste and modest, the ladies and damsels of yesteryear? And even the knights themselves. They knew exactly why they had the chastity belt fastened to their ladies' pretty bodies when they themselves went on crusade or had other important official business to attend to. Better safe than sorry - that's what the robber baron Archibald meant in our case, or in this cheerful film case, when he was summoned to help by his bosom friend Sigurd and went to war with his proud host.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-02-01
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Killer Barbys vs. Dracula
Overview: The Killer Barbies are playing at Tivoli World, a Wild West park in Spain. Komrade Irina and Komrade Ivan Ivanovich arrive from Transylvania, bringing with them the "dead" Count Dracula to be placed on display. After hearing the Killer Barbies, however, Dracula awakens, falls in love with Silvia (who looks like Charo on a bad hair day), and decides to make her his own. Realizing that they have a vampire on their hands, park owners Pepe Morgan and Martin Fierro call in the world famous, blind vampire hunter, Dr Seward. While Seward tries to track Dracula with his nose, Dracula manages to knock off a few cast members -- a faux Dracula, Bela, an acrobot with orange hair, and both Komrades Ivan and Irina. When Dracula tries to bite Silvia during a performance, Dr Seward decides to use Silvia as bait. He sends her out walking alone. When Dracula follows, they pursue and stake him. Dracula metamorphs into a white rabbit and hops away.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-08
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Liebesgrüße aus der Lederhose 2: Zwei Kumpel auf der Alm
Overview: A sequel directed again by Franz Marischka.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-09-13
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Two Crosses in Danger Pass
Overview: Judy and Alex are the only two survivors of a punishment mission ordered by the rich and ruthless Moran... The girl becomes his maid and the boy is adopted by a Quaker family. Alex, in spite of the pardon philosophy taught to him, is planning a revenge.
Genres: Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-03-28
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The Violent Four
Overview: A detective is assigned to head a manhunt for four violent bank robbers.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-03-29
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Desert of Fire
Overview: A desert bandit leader robs a jeep and hauls off a lot of American money. He doesn't get much of a chance to enjoy it, however, because he and his men are soon attacked by a "phantom", who kills all his men, and steals his weapons. When a beautiful young woman shows up in search of the money, she is raped by the phantom. When another man shows up the three of them decide to head into the desert to find the "treasure" and wind up finding something they weren't expecting.
Genres: Action Adventure Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-01-29
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On the Threshold to Another World
Overview: A documentary shot on the set of "Killer Barbys vs. Dracula" directed by Viktor Seastrom.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-29
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In Pursuit of Barbara
Overview: In 1990, Jean Rollin was hired to transform some footage Jesús Franco had shot in 1971 into a new jungle adventure film. Rollin gave up after a few days of shooting in a Madrid hotel garden. The film remains an unreleased short curiosity.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-09-10
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Debris Documentar
Overview: The film, released on DVD in 2014 as part of a boxset also containitng Melancholie der Engel (2009) and Reise nach Agatis (2010), deals with the everyday life of a man, Carsten , who works on the set of the 2004 Ulli Lommel film Zombie Nation. At the same time, he is planning to realize his own film, a task he finds extremely difficult.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-09-28
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The French Sex Murders
Overview: After a French prostitute is found dead, one of her regular clients is tried and convicted for her murder. He is eventually sentenced to death but dies in a high speed pursuit after attempting to escape custody. Soon, the witnesses that testified against him end up being systematically murdered by a mysterious killer wearing black gloves.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-06-15
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My Name Is Pecos
Overview: Pecos Martinez rides into Houston looking to settle an old score with gang leader Clane, who is after the money that disappearred from a recent robbery. The hunt for the loot and Pecos' quest become intertwined with the efforts of the locals to stay alive long enough for help to arrive. Source: SWDB www.spaghetti-western.net
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-12-22
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Street People
Overview: A Mafia boss is enraged when he is suspected of smuggling a heroin shipment into San Francisco. He dispatches his nephew, a hotshot Anglo-Sicilian lawyer, to identify the real culprit. The lawyer also enlists the aid of his best friend, a grand prix driver with an adventurous streak.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-03-30
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Possibility Zero
Overview: Set in Norway and has a crack team of Allies sent to blow up an underground Nazi factory where the Germans have taken a crashed Spitfire that contains a new radar system that the krauts want to copy.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-05-17
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Laß jucken, Kumpel III. Teil - Maloche, Bier + Bett
Overview: The trusted guys Jupp and Erwin once again turn the coal pot upside down. When they share their war experiences at a pub evening, the whole thing ends in a wild brawl. To Erwin's chagrin, Lucky's Italian relatives show up, who want to marry the canteen owner's daughter. The wedding celebrations turn out quite differently than planned.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-05-23
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Mission Phantom
Overview: A group known as Phantom are hired by an eccentric in a wheelchair to heist 4 billion dollars worth of diamonds from Russia.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-05-31
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Savage Guns
Overview: Sam is wounded by the Mash Flanigan gang who enters a saloon and kills everybody in sight including his brother. Walbash chases Flanigan to Golden City for revenge, leading to the obligatory showdown. One of the clever scenes is when gunfighters Gordon Mitchell, Lincoln Tate and Peter Martell interview for jobs and are introduced with their acting names Mitchell, Tate and Martell.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-11-25
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The Tough and the Mighty
Overview: Based on the story of real life Sardinian bandit Graziano Mesina.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-09-23
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