christoph404

Cheers for that, how interesting, McGooohan in a Terence Hill , "Trinity" style comedy western, and Klaus Kinsky in the cast list! Truly bizarre, I quite like the Terence Hill Bud Spencer films, they are quite good fun In a kind of crude way! McGoohan obviously needed some work and a paycheck at this stage in his career.

batman

The early Hill/Spencer films are rather good, but as the series developed the slapstick took over and became quite childish. At their best they were excellent. The McGoohan film , while not top drawer 'spaghetti', is one of the better films and is good fun. McGoohan is a hoot! Hill and Spencer were big box office worldwide so McGoohan did OK for himself out of it I'm sure.

Bats.

I wish I had claws.

MNP

Many thanks for all the replies generated.

Mark.

Moor Larkin

I became convinced it was when I watched the film but had understood from Prisoner sources it wasn't. The confusion seems to have arisen because Sir Robert Rietty told an interviewer he did the voice-over and it was assumed from that he did the whole thing. Patrick McGoohan himself, in a later interview, commented that he had had a 'phone call giving him hardly any notice to go to Italy to do his voice-work (he commented how chaotic the Italian movie-men were) and he simply said it was impossible and refused to go (so he certainly was dubbed by Sir Robert, who would hardly make such a thing up).

I think the solution lies in that they presumably recorded most of the indoor scenes live, but needed additional work, plus probably none of the outdoor stuff was done with live sound. It's noticeable that McGoohan says very little outdoors.

The other curious thing is that Mr. McGoohan said he'd never watched the film but a friend who had, had told him that his character's voice had been made to sound like 'Mickey Mouse', which fact McGoohan seemed to find hilariously funny, as if he felt it was the revenge of the Italians, within the context of the interview.

Which still leaves the nagging thought............

batman

Most websites dedicated to 'spaghettis' indicate that it is McGoohan's voice which is where I got my info from. The genre is full of this sort of contadictory information, often due to the number of times actors were dubbed into different languages etc, also actors were whizzed around between productions so quickly that there were often scenes which hadn't been dubbed, so some characters were voiced by more than one actor, often the actor playing the part did no voice recordings at all (as with Cameron Mitchell in The Last Gun). I think your explanation is the most likely one, Moor. By 1975 more 'live' recording was being done so it is likely than McGoohan voiced the studio scenes and Sir Robert the stuff that need to be re-dubbed.

Bats.

I wish I had claws.

deckard

Evenin all!, ahh Percy Edwards.....remarkable! Have a listen to "The Dreaming" by the brilliant Kate Bush, all the animal noises on that track are by the wonderful Mr. Edwards. Ta ta for now , Decks.

"and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock"