Con questo prossimamente del 1968 per il film di Enzo G. Castellari si conclude la ricerca sulle fatiche di Iginio Gigi Lardani. La filmografia su di lui è ancora incompleta, avendo operato egli, dagli anni sessanta agli ottanta, sia come titolista, title designer, sia, molto più spesso, come artefice di prossimamente.
Qui di seguito un breve cenno biografico tratto da:
http://www.artofthetitle.com/designer/iginio-lardani/
Iginio Lardani was a graphic and film titles designer best known for his
iconic title design work in the Spaghetti Western genre.
Born in Áscoli Piceno, Italy, on December 24, 1924, Lardani was
a European contemporary of title design titans Saul Bass and Maurice Binder. He
was an autodidact with a great interest in painting. He moved to Rome at the
age of 25 and entered the world of film through poster design. After creating
the Italian posters for films like High
Noon, he designed the title sequences to Sergio Leone’s Dollars
Trilogy — A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More(1965), and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966). Often
allowed an entirely free hand when designing titles and trailers, he worked
from his study in Via Reno, Rome. He also designed the opening titles for Face to Face (1967), The Mercenary (1969), and Tepepa (1969).
Outside of the
Spaghetti Western genre, Lardani designed the openings forCasanova ’70 (1965), Il compagno Don Camillo (1965), Queimada (1969), and A Special Day (1977). Often
affectionaltely referred to as “Gigi” and sometimes mistakenly called
“Eugenio”, he also designed and edited film trailers, most notably those
of Mogliamante (1977) by Marco
Vicario and Una Gionata Particolare (1977) by Ettore
Scola, which were awarded first and second place at Cannes in 1978.