The Colossus of Rhodes (1961)
June 15, 1961Release Date
The Colossus of Rhodes (1961)
June 15, 1961Release Date
Plot.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Rory Calhoun
Darios
Lea Massari
Diala
Georges Marchal
Peliocles
Conrado San Martín
Thar
Ángel Aranda
Koros, Peliocles' brother
Mabel Karr
Mirte, Peliocles' sister
Mimmo Palmara
Ares
Roberto Camardiel
Serse, King of Rhodes
Alfio Caltabiano
Creonte / Stunts
George Rigaud
Lisippo, Dario's uncle
Yann Larvor
Mahor
Carlo Tamberlani
Xenon
Félix Fernández
Carete, Diala's father
Ignazio Dolce
(uncredited)
Antonio Casas
Phoenician Ambassador
Fernando Calzado
Sirione
Arturo Cabré
(uncredited)
Álvaro de Luna
(uncredited)
Ángel Menéndez
Eteocle (uncredited)
Nello Pazzafini
Man Ringing Gong (uncredited)
Gustavo Re
Mercante (uncredited)
José María Vilches
Eros (uncredited)
Sergio Leone
Director / Screenplay / Story
Angelo Francesco Lavagnino
Original Music Composer / Music Director
Antonio L. Ballesteros
Director of Photography
Jorge Grau
Assistant Director
Vittorio Rossi
Costume Design
Cesare Seccia
Production Manager / Screenplay / Story
Eraldo Da Roma
Editor
Michele Scaglione
Executive Producer
Ramiro Gómez
Production Design
Tonino Cacciottolo
Sound Effects
Erasmo Bacciucchi
Special Effects
Carlos Nin
Makeup Artist
Irma Tonnini
Key Costumer
Ageo Savioli
Screenplay / Story
Robert de Nesle
Co-Producer
Emilio Foriscot
Second Unit Director of Photography
Ennio De Concini
Screenplay / Story
Carlo Gualtieri
Screenplay / Story
Jesús Mateos
Props
Roberto Bodegas
Assistant Director Trainee
Aldo Colanzi
Key Grip
Mariano Ruiz Capillas
Second Unit Director of Photography
Luciano Martino
Story / Screenplay
Giuseppe Maggi
Producer
Luis María Lasala
Second Assistant Director
Yves Boisset
Second Assistant Director
Antonio Cortés
Assistant Costume Designer
Carla Leone
Choreographer
Luciano Chitarrini
Screenplay / Story
Josette Trachsler
Co-Producer
Maria Pia Mancini
Costumer
Gianni Maddaleni
Assistant Camera
Giuseppe Ranieri
Assistant Art Director
Eduardo Noé
Camera Operator
Media.
Details.
Release DateJune 15, 1961
Original NameIl colosso di Rodi
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 7m
Box Office$350,000
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Wiki.
The Colossus of Rhodes (Italian: Il Colosso di Rodi) is a 1961 Italian sword and sandal film co-written and directed by Sergio Leone. Starring Rory Calhoun, it is a fictional account of the island of Rhodes during its classical period in the late third century BCE before coming under Roman control, using the Colossus of Rhodes as a backdrop for the story of a war hero who becomes involved in two different plots to overthrow a tyrannical king: one by Rhodian patriots and the other by Phoenician agents.
The film was Leone's first work as a credited director, in a genre where he already had worked before (as the replacement director for The Last Days of Pompeii and as a secondary director for both Ben-Hur and Quo Vadis). It is perhaps the least known of the seven films he officially directed, and is the only one without an Ennio Morricone score.
The film is set during the time following Alexander the Great’s death (323 BC) but before the rise of the Roman empire (27 BC), known as the Hellenistic era. Most sword-and-sandal epics of the 1950s and 1960s were set in either classical Greece or even earlier (Hercules, Ulysses, The Giant of Marathon) or the later Roman period (Ben Hur, The Magnificent Gladiator, Quo Vadis). The only other films made during the peplum era to use a Hellenistic setting are Hannibal (1959), Revak the Rebel and Siege of Syracuse (both 1960).