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I also have been gathering up every peplum score I can find, most of them from Digitmovies. (I even have all those little cards they've included, though I don't seem to be able to register them any more, since Digitmovies has changed their web site.)
I have long been a fan of peplum films, ever since I saw many of the incarnations of them on American screens, back in the late 50's/early 60's, when I was roughly between the ages of 10 and 14, a more or less perfect age to appreciate them, as most of them have a kind adolescent feel to them. I even have a number of books concerning them; there are several just about the poster artwork alone, as well as long mentions about the genre in several more comprehensive books about films about the ancient world in general.
As for the music, well, I am a Golden Age fan, which certainly adds to my enjoyment of the scores. I guess my favorites would be the scores to the original HERCULES films, which made a great impact in the late 50's, and started the whole genre, as well as others, such as SAFFO VENERE DI LESBOS, L'ASSEIDO DI SYRACUSA, and SAUL E DAVID, to name a few off the top of my proverbial head. Being more a fan of Golden-Age-style music, and fond of the peplum films, I'm not as familiar with other scores to Italian films of the period.
Since I have them currently in separate places, I'm not able to check all the Digitmovies Volume numbers. (Also, a number of these scores are from other labels, such as Legend, and a number have yet to be released commercially, but have wended their way around out there in the aether...)
Any questions, please e-mail me; address is on my profile.
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Aug 16, 2013 - 6:28 PM
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Ray Worley
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Thanks guys, for validating my existence! I was beginning to have an existential crisis when my question was ignored after approaching 200 views.
Anyway, I'm glad other folks here appreciate these fun scores. I too grew up on a lot of these films and saw many of them in cut-up re-formatted versions on the "Sons of Hercules" syndicated TV series. Remember that awesomely awful theme song? "The mighty sons of Hercules were men as men should be. They took the world, and shook the world....the Sons of Hercules....Ah-ah-ah"
I have pretty much decided that Digitmovies just goofed and skipped a number. Maybe they'll number a later title to fill in the gap...or not. I believe Claudio Fuano posts here occasionally , maybe he can shed some light. It's such a minor thing I don't think it's worth bothering writing them about it. As for other Digitmovies scores that could have been included in the peplum series but weren't - I noticed that too. I have the two Bava scores and I wondered about SANDOKAN as well.
Truthfully, I'm glad the De Angelis scores have not been included in the series. I would have been at odds with my "collector" mentality because I generally loath every note written by the G&M D brothers. I was not impressed by SANDOKAN samples.
I can't say I'm just a Golden Age fan. I love modern stuff too, but I guess my favorites tend to be more Golden Age, so I have a fondness for these types of scores. It's hard to pick a favorite peplum score. I like all the Lavagnino scores, especially NEL SEGNO DI ROMA. Other faves include Masetti's two "Hercules" scores, Innocenzi's IL TERRORE DEI BARBARI, Fusco's two Troy/Aneas scores, LA GUERRA DI TROIA and LA LEGGENDA DI ENEA, Rustichelli's IL LADRO DI BAGDAD, and among those not in the Digitmovies series, Cicognini's ULYSSES.
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Hi All
A great series by Digitmovies. I cannot answer on this missing title, but to anyone interested in these scores I would strongly recommend some of the Carlo Rustichelli releases.
Start off with the triple score IL DOMINATORE DEL DESERTO/MACISTE ALLA CORTE DELLO ZAR/I PREDONI DELLA STEPPA release, some epic themes and exciting action music.
Following that I can thoroughly recommend his superb scores to I GIGANTI DELLA TESSAGLIA and ROSMUNDA E ALBOINO also on Digitmovies.
Finally the recent release of the peplum score ANTINEA by Rustichelli on the Legend/GDM label is also wonderful, really evocative music by Rustichelli and highly recommended to anyone who likes 'golden age' scores.
Cheers Dave
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Perhaps Digitmovies should provide us with a complete list of their peplums (in the official series and those hidden away in others, like the Trovajoli).
You can find such a title list (all peplum titles released by Digitmovies till June 2012) here in this posting by Luca Di Silverio:
http://www.beatrecords.it/public/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=v256ckr8q97erqonpb17g86680&topic=1738.msg6429
And these are the other ones released since that time:
CDDM 220 IL FIGLIO DI CLEOPATRA/CORIOLANO Carlo Rustichelli
CDDM 226 ROSMUNDA E ALBOINO Carlo Rustichelli
CDDM 234 MACISTE L'EROE PIU GRANDE DEL MONDO Francesco De Masi
CDDM 236 MACISTE IL GLADIATORE PIU FORTE DEL MONDO Francesco De Masi
CDDM 241 LA VALLE DELL'ECO TONANTE/GENOVEFFA DI BRABANTE Carlo Rustichelli
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Nice music, though the sound makes it seem like it's playing in an aquarium.
Such was the case with many peplum scores. It's a wonder any of them has been preserved, let alone released.
I'd like to get THE COLOSSUS OF RHODES sometime, though I have been buying all of them.
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Nice music, though the sound makes it seem like it's playing in an aquarium.
Such was the case with many peplum scores. It's a wonder any of them has been preserved, let alone released.
I'd like to get THE COLOSSUS OF RHODES sometime, though I have been buying all of them.
This version below (even though it has Greek voice-over narration) of L'IRA DI ACHILLE sounds much better (the movie print has also much better colours) and it has the COMPLETE Main Title which is totally missing in the rather cheap US version on Youtube posted above. Nice to hear how Savina has taken over some Rozsa flourishes from BEN HUR in his Main Title:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po_i1rl6zEk
In the early 70s there was one track from L'IRA DI ACHILLE on the CAM CML library LP "Pastorale-Archeologico" with the title "Meriggio" (with 2:23 minutes). So the score has been preserverd in the CAM - or rather now Sugar - archives and I suppose that it may still appear in the near future on Digitmovies in their peplum series.
As to Lavagnino's IL COLOSSO DI RODI which John Archibald mentions: Unfortunately, the original tapes for this score are long lost as the music publisher was Nazionalmusic and not CAM. Also in the Lavagnino estate there are no tapes at all of this famous peplum score! So for now it is just impossible to release it on CD.
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Yes, SFIDA AL RE DI CASTIGLIA is a swashbuckler movie from 1963 with Mark Damon set in the 14th century and the original tapes for this Savina score are also in the CAM catalogue. CAM does really have a lot of Savina scores, almost 90 titles. So it would be probably no problem for Digitmovies or Beat or another label to get it out on CD.
However, Christopher Lee is not at all in the cast of this movie. There is another Italian movie from 1963 with Lee as main actor with the title SFIDA AL DIAVOLO.
Have you maybe confused the titles?
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