Westerns, of course, were not only made in the USA. So, what comes next, a feature on Spaghetti Westerns? Later perhaps, but here is a strange Soviet/ Cuban collaboration from 1972.
Всадник без головы (The Headless Horseman)was based on a novel by the Irish-American adventure writer"Captain"Thomas Mayne Reid (1818 – 1883). The novel was an adaptation of a South Texas folk tale.
The movie was filmed in Cuba- local actors (dubbed from Spanish) playing the Hispanic carachters and the black slaves. The Caucasians and Native Americans are played by Soviet actors. Leading man (and Soviet heartthrob) Oleg Borisovich Vidov was born in Moscow in 1943. In 1985, he defected to the U.S. You'd have to go a long way to find a more handsome cowboy.
Всадник без головы (The Headless Horseman)was based on a novel by the Irish-American adventure writer"Captain"Thomas Mayne Reid (1818 – 1883). The novel was an adaptation of a South Texas folk tale.
The movie was filmed in Cuba- local actors (dubbed from Spanish) playing the Hispanic carachters and the black slaves. The Caucasians and Native Americans are played by Soviet actors. Leading man (and Soviet heartthrob) Oleg Borisovich Vidov was born in Moscow in 1943. In 1985, he defected to the U.S. You'd have to go a long way to find a more handsome cowboy.
