Imagine my delight when watching Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019, Quentin Tarantino, USA/ UK/ China): I was already expecting the section when Rick Dalton (Leonardo Di Caprio) heads off to Italy to make spaghetti westerns, but then he also starred in a eurospy film directed by Antonio Margheriti! The film poster appears on screen, and the camera flashes to the bottom where his name is prominent. Now as you can see it is not actually on the poster they have distributed, but still, it's very cool that you saw it in the film.
I'm not one to nitpick, but I do feel the need to point out that the Italians had all but given up on the eurospy by 1969, the year this one was supposedly produced. At that time Margheriti was mainly making westerns, although he did also find time to make Mr Superinvisible (1970, Italy). However, if Quentin Tarantino wanted to throw in another reference to Margheriti (after also name-dropping him in Inglourious Basterds (2009, Germany/ USA)), that is fine by me.
According to a more knowledgable source, the clips we see of Operazione Dyn-o-mite! are actually taken from Sergio Corbucci's Moving Target (1967). To complicate things further, Rick Dalton does also star in a fictional Corbucci western called Nebraska Jim.
It's nice to know that the name of Antonio Margheriti still has some currency in popular culture, and that in some small way his legacy lives on in the excesses of Tarantino's fevered imagination.
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