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Irene Guest

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    Irene Guest was a dubbing actress who was very active on the English dubbing scene in Rome throughout the 1960s and 70s. In the early days of her career, she dubbed several glamorous supporting roles as well as occasional leads, but it was not until the early 1970s that Irene really came into her own by establishing herself as a character dubber with a specialty for voicing mature or middle-aged women – of both the seductive and the more matronly sort. Sadly, Irene is another of those Rome dubbers who is so obscure that there isn’t even a picture available of her, despite the fact that she was a very good and versatile dubber who could do both serious and comedic parts, and if you have an interest in giallo, western Eurocrime, Nazisploitation and the like, then you’ll surely recognize Irene’s characteristic voice in the video below:     As initially mentioned, there are very few biographical details available on Irene. In fact, I had never even heard of he...
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Comparing the two English dubs of A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die (1972)

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  One aspect of dubbing that has always intrigued me is when a film, for whatever reason, ends up receiving more than one English language dub. Throughout the 1960s in particular, this fate befell many an Italian film, but to me, one of the most fascinating examples of this practice is actually from the 1970s: Tonino Valerii’s spaghetti western A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die (1972) starring James Coburn, Bud Spencer and Telly Savalas. So let’s take a closer look at this film’s different English language dubs, shall we?     The film A kind of spaghetti western take on The Dirty Dozen (1967), A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die is set during the American Civil War and stars James Coburn in his second Italian western, following Sergio Leone’s Duck, You Sucker! (1971), in the role of Pembroke, a disgraced former Union colonel who is branded as a coward after he surrendered the strategic outpost Fort Holman to Confederate Major Ward (Telly Savalas) without a sin...
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