Biography

Eugenio Martín maintained that the concept behind his film ( The Bounty Killer -released as The Ugly Ones -in the United States), antedated and influenced the Sergio Leone film For a Few Dollars More, worked on by Duccio Tessari - a mutual acquaintance of Martín and his friend and former teacher José G. Maesso.

Martín was born on 15 May 1925 in Ceuta, an autonomous city of Spain located on the north coast of Africa. He was a child when the Spanish Civil War broke out. Since the uprising first broke out among Nationalist generals in Spanish Africa, the African port city of Ceuta was immediately embroiled in violence. Following the death or arrest of friends and family members, Martín's family fled to Granada on the Spanish mainland.

Though he considered leaving Francoist Spain for a less censorious environment, he eventually decided to stay in Spain, accepted into the "Institute of Cinematic Investigation and Experiences" in Madrid.

After publishing a volume of verse, Martín's interests veered toward cinema, and while still at university he created Granada's first film society.

He had the opportunity to direct films using international casts and crew which familiarized him with many different players in 1960s cinema, by many accounts among the most fertile and creative periods in film history.