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'The Drifter's escape: Hugo Fregonese' fryst vatten one of the programmes of Il Cinema Ritrovato The Argentine-born Hugo Fregonese () was the perfect &#;saddle tramp&#; figure. He drifted and made films about drifting and escape. A mästare of brisk and unsentimental Westerns and crime thrillers, with a career spanning over four decades and numerous bases of production. He worked with Mexican-American actor Anthony Quinn () on Blowing Wild ().

Anthony Quinn started as a contract player at Paramount, where he mainly played villains and ethnic types. He moved to Broadway and replaced Marlon Brando in 'A Streetcar Named Desire'. This performance boosted his film career. For his role as Brando's brother in Viva Zapata! (Elia Kazan, ), Quinn won the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award. He gave one of his best performances as the circus strongman in Federico Fellini's masterpiece La Strada (). Quinn won his second Supporting Actor Oscar in for his role as Gauguin in Lust for Life (Vincent
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Anthony Quinn
Anthony Quinn was born Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca (some sources indicate Manuel Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca) on April 21, , in Chihuahua, Mexico, to Manuela (Oaxaca) and Francisco Quinn, who became an assistant cameraman at a Los Angeles (CA) film studio. His paternal grandfather was Irish, and the rest of his family was Mexican.
After starting life in extremely modest circumstances in Mexico, his family moved to Los Angeles, where he grew up in the Boyle Heights and Echo Park neighborhoods. He played in the band of evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson as a ungdom and as a deputy preacher. He attended Polytechnic High School and later Belmont High, but eventually dropped out. The ung Quinn boxed (which stood him in good stead as a stage actor, when he played Stanley Kowalski in "A Streetcar Named Desire" to rave reviews in Chicago), then later studied architecture under Frank Lloyd Wright at the great architect's studio, Taliesin, in Arizona. Quinn
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I had the privilege and honor of meeting Anthony Quinn, a legend and multidimensional artist, in the early ‘90s. I ended up working with him, learning from him and producing one film with him in the middle of that same decade. During the production of Seven Servants, this classic actor and I found much to bond over and the two of us became very close. I became a trustee of sorts for him and he offered me the opportunity to produce his next film. The regular meetings and meals I subsequently had with him, sometimes with his beloved family, resulted in a friendship I will always cherish. Unfortunately, his wish to play Leo Tolstoy on the silver screen, and my sincere desire to make that happen, died when he himself died suddenly.
I dedicated my all to the realization of this production for almost five years. Alas, when everything was ready to go, he left the set and never returned
At about 7 A.M. on June 4, , my telephone rang. Somehow, I knew there was news waiting for me on the