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I just checked Music Box, and am surprised it hasnt sold out.
Why should this CD have sold out?
Just take a look for example at the Digitmovies CD catalogue and you will see there that their last title which has really sold out has been Morricone's GRAZIE ZIA from January 2013 - but nothing else since that time:
https://www.digitmovies.com/digitsoundtracks/de/products/
And it is not without any reason that for more than a year now even a label like GDM only does CD editions limited to 300 copies - not even 500 anymore.
That's the current state of affairs if we are not talking about some of the more famous Italian cult titles.
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Yes, of course you are right about LIGHT AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD and CAPTAIN NEMO. But I myself think there are various reasons why just these two CDs have sold out so quickly: One has to do with the high reputation the Quartet label has gained in the meantime above all among US collectors, and another one is that they have made an excellent marketing strategy with these two titles. Just as ZardozSpeaks already explained it here a few weeks ago:
"Quartet's marketing tactics seems to be working - that is, keep the titles in English (don't mention "Il Faro In Capo Al Mondo") and highlight Jules Verne instead of the composer's name.
This is a good thing, though. Has any other Piero Piccioni soundtrack (pre-order or otherwise) ever made it onto the weekly Top 10 best sellers?"
http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?pageID=10&forumID=1&threadID=85825&archive=0
Just like him I also think that you would probably not have sold 500 copies so fast with just Piccioni's name and only the Italian title IL FARO IN CAPO AL MONDO on it as it was on the former GDM CD.
But with LEGIONI DI CLEOPATRA you don't really have this marketing possibility.
Of course, there may be some European cinéastes who still know about the movie and about the cult status of director Cottafavi, but among soundtrack collectors much less so which makes it therefore more difficult. And how many people are familiar with Renzo Rossellini nowadays?
The movie itself is quite nice and interesting, but avoid the English-dubbed version because the dialogues have in some cases been changed and are therefore much more ridiculous than in the original Italian version. And also a few scenes have been cut.
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"Light at the edge of the world" and "Mysterious Island" sold out pretty fast (and I only bought LIGHT based on the sound samples), so it's not an unheard of phenomena.
tsk...tsk...Last Child. After all the input and comments from members in the Piero Piccioni recommendation thread and you continue to rely upon (only!) sound samples instead of our collective good words!
What happened to all the blind buyers in the world?
May the curse of LYCANTHROPUS fall upon all the sound samplers among us. 
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is "The Monte Carlo Story" score comical or comedy music?
No, it's mainly a really sparkling romantic and very melodic symphonic score with just a few comical interludes here and there. Therefore It's not that dissimilar in style to what someone like Alfred Newman or Victor Young would have written for such a picture during the mid-50s, although of course Rossellini also has his own typical stylistic traits. Anyway, his music for THE MONTE CARLO STORY is pure delight and I think that some Golden Age collectors may be surprised by this score. I hope that those here otherwise asking for US Golden Age scores from the 50s from the Kritzerland or Lalaland labels will at least lend their ears to the audio samples of this beautiful Rossellini score which will be available when the CD will be released in a few weeks.
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I actually like comedy scores and even prefer Golden Age scores with contemporary music like "Il Moralista" and "I Magliari".
The MONTE CARLO STORY score is not at all jazzy in the way Savina's IL MORALISTA or Piccioni's I MAGLIARI are. There may be one or two tracks in the source music section at the end of the CD which go into that direction, but the actual orchestral score by Rossellini (about 40 minutes) is in an old-fashioned symphonic style. It has therefore much more similarity with something like Victor Young's THREE COINS IN THE FOUNTAIN or Alfred Newman's A CERTAIN SMILE. So it's not really a comedy score with contemporary jazzy/bluesy music, but much more a very romantic one with a lot of Mediterranean feeling typical of that era of the mid-50s.
In my opinion, it should therefore attract above all those collectors who like the Young or Newman scores.
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