Miralya, Emilio

Script processing, assistant director

Emilio Miralya began his career in cinema as a script handler, working mainly on comedies. In particular, among his works of that period were paintings with the participation of Toto, as well as the comedy horror film " My Uncle Was a Vampire " in 1959 with the participation of Christopher Lee , Sylvia Koshina and Renato Raskel. Later, Miralya re-qualified as an assistant director and made his debut in this field in 1960 with the comedy film “ Pills of Hercules ”, which appeared on the screen in 1963. In 1961, Miralya also acts as an assistant in the filming of the comedy " Horse Officer " directed by Carlo Lizzani . Movies such as the comedy Twelve Boys from Mars (1964), the criminal Two Enemies of the People by Lucio Fulci (1964), the peplum Hercules and the Son of the Sun (1964) with Giuliano Gemma and Marc Forest, and the criminal Awake and Later follow. Die ”directed by Carlo Lizzani with Robert Hoffman and Jean-Maria Volonte in the lead roles.

Directing

Miralya’s full-fledged directorial debut was the 1967 film “ Murder, ” shot by him under the pseudonym Hal Brady . Stylistically, the film was described as a spy action movie and told the story of a secret agent ( Henry Silva ), whose death was specially staged in order to fulfill his secret government tasks. Some critics have compared the film with John Frankenheimer's Manchu Candidate and John Houston's Kremlin Letters - because of a cynical and ultraparanoid mood ^[1] . In 1968, under the same pseudonym, Miralya in San Francisco removes the police thriller The Falling Man . In the same year, another thriller follows - the Vatican affair with Klaus Kinsky in the title role.

After the release of this film, Miralya ceased his film activities for some time until in 1971 he removed the jallo “ At night, Evelyn left the grave ”. In 1972, under the pseudonym Hal Brady, the spaghetti western “ Shoot, Joe ... Shoot again!” ", And after some time in the same year, another jallo -" The Red Queen kills seven times ", which became the last work in the film career of Mirally. It was the two previously mentioned djallos that made him a name in the eyes of the world community ^[1] .