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DGST 035CD
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$21.00
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RELEASE DATE: 12/14/2018
Digitmovies release the Carlo Savina's original soundtrack for the Spaghetti Westerns The Stranger and the Gunfighter ("Là Dove Non Batte Il Sole") and An Animal Called Man ("Un Animale Chiamato Uomo") for the first time on CD, in complete edition. For The Stranger and the Gunfighter, Carlo Savina wrote an enjoyable soundtrack dominated by three main themes. One is a vibrant orchestral motif in Western-style beat for the character of Dakota, the mature gunslinger played by Lee Van Cleef. It is introduced in the opening credits and reprised later. The second is an oriental style theme for the character of young Wong-Kiang (Lo) with sounds which are sometimes dramatic and heroic. And finally, a pleasant love theme for Wong-Kiang and the beautiful Lia-Kua, where the wonderful voice of Edda Dell'Orso chimes in. There is also no shortage of lounge music like a pop bossa, action music, and the guaranteed saloon pieces. For this recovery and preservation, the stereo master tapes from the original recording session were used. With An Animal Called Man, Carlo Savina wrote an upbeat soundtrack where an amusing and light-hearted motif comes through. It is introduced in the opening credits and is then reprised slower and faster, and as a shake with organ. It is alternated with a romantic love theme with the voice of Nora Orlandi as well as with saloon pieces. For this recovery and preservation, the stereo master tapes from the original recording session were used. Edition of 300.
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DGST 042CD
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$26.50
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RELEASE DATE: 12/14/2018
Digitmovies rerelease, on a triple-CD set, Fiorenzo Carpi's complete original soundtrack for the TV drama Le Avventure Di Pinocchio ("The Adventures of Pinocchio") in full stereo, directed in 1972 by Luigi Comencini. At the time the C.A.M. issued a 33rpm containing eighteen tracks and a 45rpm single with two tracks. The album material was re-released in France on an LP and on another vinyl with music and dialogues narrated by Genevieve Casile. C.A.M. reissued on CD for the first time ever, the content of the vintage 33rpm in 1991, in its series Cam's Soundtrack Encyclopedia and in 2005 with a new music suite. For the production of Digitmovies' triple-CD set, the label were able to access the master tapes in full stereo of the recording session of the time which allowed them to use every note recorded in 1972, under the direction of the fabulous orchestra conductor Bruno Nicolai (who had also handled the arrangements). An open sea of music... the label almost felt like the puppet Pinocchio who desperately swims in front of the monstrous jaws of the whale; experience of recovery, edit, sequence, and restoration really tiring and unprecedented, which led finally to the realization of Digitimovies' ambitious project. CD one contains the material of the historic 33rpm, followed by TV versions and alternate takes; CD two continues with many other TV versions and alternate takes; the third CD contains TV versions, alternate takes, and test versions sung by Andrea and Nino Manfredi Balestri with the orchestra of the brothers De Angelis. The magnitude of Fiorenzo Carpi and Bruno Nicolai is highlighted by the impressive number of different arrangements of the main themes (the most attentive audiophiles will notice even the presence of certain sonic atmospheres typical of Nicolai for the Italian thriller!) That lead the listener into the magical world of Pinocchio, thanks to a popular flavor of music, strong in its extreme simplicity. An absolute masterpiece that wants to pay homage to Nino Manfredi in one of his most intense performances, the director Luigi Comencini and of course the musical art of Fiorenzo Carpi and Bruno Nicolai. Edition of 300.
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DGST 034CD
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$21.00
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RELEASE DATE: 12/14/2018
Digitmovies release, for the first time on CD, the complete edition of Piero Piccioni's original sound track for the drama The Big Night (aka Bad Girls Don't Cry, original title La Notte Brava). Piero Piccioni (1921-2004) wrote and directed this score where jazz and blues create the right atmosphere for the young protagonists of the story. Originally, not a single note was released from this prestigious soundtrack. Digitmovies' CD was possible thanks to the mono master tapes from the original recording session. Maestro Piccioni composed a recurring main score which is introduced in the opening credits and reprised in different versions: slow for bassoons, with horns, a fast swing, and with the addition of female voices. Piero Piccioni alternates this with numerous dance melodies like the mambo, rock n'roll, swing, tango, and the song with a female voice, "Hello You", which is reprised in an instrumental version. The inner side of the main characters is emphasized by very evocative passages. This album is another masterpiece by Piero Piccioni which has finally been recovered and preserved on CD forever. Edition of 300.
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DGST 032CD
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$21.00
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RELEASE DATE: 11/16/2018
Digitmovies present a reissue of Benedetto Ghiglia's Salvare La Faccia, originally issued in 1969. Digitmovies is pleased to release the complete edition of Ghiglia's soundtrack for the drama Psych-out For Murder ("Salvare La Faccia") for the first time on CD. Ghiglia (Fiesole, December 27, 1921 - Rome, July 4, 2012) was able to represent the young protagonist in the film through music with a swing motif sung in English by a female voice. It's introduced by dissonant strings, and then develops into a romantic and dramatic crescendo for orchestra and choir and then into a baroque theme in rock beat. The composer also wrote a wild shake for the various dance scenes, such as when the young beatniks show up at the business magnate's villa, and the scene with the hippie protestors where the Cantori Moderni di Alessandroni give an incredible performance (much like that of the advertisement of a famous brand of textile fibers in 1967/1968 which had music composed by Ghiglia). The composer created the perfect atmosphere for the time period of the film in which the girl with an angelic face and rebellious soul vindictively manipulates the people around her like puppets after being forced by her father to pretend she was crazy in order to cover up a scandal. The dark side of the story is emphasized by psychedelic crime adventure music with harpsichord, percussion, organ, female sighs, and rhythmic experimental jazz. Originally C.A.M. had published an EP single with two tracks in mono which've been included as bonus tracks: "Love Your Neighbor" and "Una Faccia Da Salvare", which are also found in the original stereo mix. For this CD the master tapes were in mono and in stereo from the original recording session, which allowed use of everything that had been recorded for the film, apart from one version of the baroque theme which was sung in English by the author of the lyrics. This was created separately only for this re-edited version, with added scenes, for the American market. This album is a tribute to the recovery and preservation of the musical art of Benedetto Ghiglia. Edition of 300.
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DGST 033CD
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$21.00
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RELEASE DATE: 11/16/2018
Digitmovies release for the first time on CD the complete edition of the Giovanni Fusco's soundtrack for the Peplum film The Goddess of Love (1957) (original title: La Venere Di Cheronea). Fusco (October 10, 1906 Sant'Agata de 'Goti - June 1, 1968 Rome) wrote a symphonic score for orchestra and choir that he entrusted to the masterful conductor, Carlo Savina. His main source of inspiration for this score was surely Iride's beauty (and actress Belinda Lee who interprets her). Maestro Fusco created orchestral passages with a moving love theme which are introduced in the opening credits and then reprised several times throughout the soundtrack and contrasted with a battle theme. Also included is the track in the alternate ending from the French version of the film. For this CD access to the mono master tapes from the recording session see the use of every note recorded. The recovery and preservation of this CD from the golden age is a tribute to the musical art of Giovanni Fusco. Edition of 300.
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DGST 043CD
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$21.00
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RELEASE DATE: 11/16/2018
Digitmovies presents the soundtrack by brothers Guido & Maurizio De Angelis for the movie Zorro (1974). At that time a 45 rpm single was issued in Italy and in Japan, with the songs "Zorro Is Back" and "To You Mi Chica", and a vinyl album with twelve selections was issued in France, Germany and Japan and later reissued with the same contents by C.A.M. on CD in 1991. For this CD, Digitmovies uses the first generation stereo master tapes of the original recording session allowing for almost forty extra minutes of material. The De Angelis brothers have written a cheerful main theme for the masked avenger Zorro called "Zorro Is Back", introduced in the version performed by Oliver Onions in "Titoli Di Testa" and reprised in instrumental form. This motif is alternated with the love theme "To You Mi Chica" for solo guitar, orchestra, and vocal with dramatic symphonic music with Latin flavor for the heroic actions of Zorro. The bonus material contains exciting reprises of the album versions of "Zorro Is Back", "To You Mi Chica" and the dramatic background themes among which a remarkable rarity can be found: the off-vocal take of the main theme song, that is to say "karaoke" with Zorro! Edition of 300.
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2010 release. Digitmovies release for the first time Alessandro Alessandroni's complete original soundtrack, in full stereo, for the movie La Signora Gioca Bene A Scopa? ("Poker In Bed") directed in 1974 by Giuliano Carmineo, and Gianfranco Plenizio's complete OST in mono for L'infermiera (aka "The Secrets of a Sensuous Nurse) directed in 1975 by Nelo Rossati. In La Signora Gioca Bene A Scopa?, Michele is a stubborn poker game player who manages a shoe-shop in Parma. As a solution to his continuous and huge gambling losses, he supplements his earnings with paid sexual performances by his female customers. The economic crisis is so big that Michele needs further help for his activities: Tonino, the shop assistant, helps him out and very soon becomes the favorite of one of his wild female customers. Alessandro Alessandroni has written an amusing OST where he alternates a funny theme, performed by Edda Dell'Orso, with an erotic falsetto voice introduced in "Titoli Di Testa". It gets reprised with delicious variations and in a slow funeral-like symphonic reprise for the cemetery scene. This then gets alternated with a romantic love theme with Latin flavor and with mystic music for strings. In L'infermiera the owner of a winery, Leonida Bottacin, who has recently become a widower, suffers a heart attack during a sexual act with the wife of the caretaker of the cemetery where his wife Ramona is buried. The man's relatives try to cause a second, fatal heart attack to the man so they can inherit the goods of the winery and to sell it all to the American businessman Mr. Kitch. To realize this, the son-in-law Benito calls his past lover Anna, a very sexy woman who will have to be Leonida's nurse so that the man will suffer a deadly heart attack. At the end the girl grows fond of the sick man and after having foiled the family's diabolical plan, she marries him, but during the honeymoon the old man suffers a second and lethal heart attack so that the girl will become the only heiress of his huge patrimony. For this pleasant Italian erotic comedy, Gianfranco Plenizio has written an elegant OST where a romantic love theme for trumpet, solo female voice, and orchestra is featured, introduced, then reprised, alternated with a second cheerful motif with a folk flavor, with a third brilliant motif, and with American-flavored music.
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2011 release. Digitmovies releases on CD for the first time the complete and full stereo original soundtracks from two Italian police movies from the '70s: The music by Bixio-Frizzi-Tempera from the movie Roma, L'altra Faccia Della Violenza (aka "L'autre Côté De La Violence") directed in 1976 by Franco Martinelli and Giampaolo Chiti and Sergio Montori's music for La Banda Vallanzasca (aka "The Vallanzasca Gang") directed in 1977 by Mario Bianchi. In Roma, L'altra Faccia Della Violenza, the father and brother of an 18-year-old girl who had been killed during a robbery agree to cooperate with the police themselves. Escaped from the penitentiary of Regina Coeli, a robber is hired by a mysterious gang that turns him, to his own regret, into a public enemy. After having kidnapped the daughter of an oilman, he runs away with her, but the organization kills both of them. For this CD, Digitmovies with great help from Cinevox, had access to the stereo master tapes of the sessions of both the original OSTs. For Roma, L'altra Faccia Della Violenza, the prolific trio Bixio-Frizzi-Tempera has created an explosive sound of the funky genre so fashionable in those years with a range of themes for breathtaking chase scenes introduced in "Titoli" and reprised and alternated with other suspenseful, mysterious, and pensive takes and with a romantic and nostalgic love theme. For La Banda Vallanzasca, Gianpaolo Chiti and Sergio Montori have written a great funky tune for scenes of daring car chases called "Desperation And Money" which together with the folk-flavored motif "Gunvalzer" appeared on a Cinevox 45rpm single. Here we add new material: a piece in experimental vein for violin and electric guitar with rather disturbing echoes and reverberations. a modern and dancefloor theme for the character of Antonella, another dance tune in a burlesque style, and a rousing reprise of "Desperation And Money", a version with rhythms only mix. A cool CD for long-term big fans of an evergreen genre.
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CDDM 206CD
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2012 release. Digitmovies release for the first time on CD, the prolific trio Bixio-Frizzi-Tempera's original soundtrack for the dramatic movie Ritratto Di Borghesia In Nero (aka "Retrato en negro de la burguesía"). Directed in 1978 by Tonino Cervi and starring Senta Berger, Ornella Muti, Capucine, Mattia Sbragia, Paolo Bonacelli, Giuliana Calandra, Giancarlo Sbragia, Stefano Patrizi, Maria Monti, Eros Pagni, and Christian Borromeo. It is based on the novel La Maestra Di Piano by Roger Peyrefitte. Venice in summer 1938: The young Mattia Morandi (Patrizi) from Lecco arrives in the Venetian lagoon after having won a music aid grant. He becomes a friend of Renato Richter (Borromeo) and also the lover of his mother Carla (Berger), his piano teacher. The woman hopes that her son will marry the very beautiful and coddled Elena (Muti) of the very rich Mazzarini family whom she gives piano lessons. The very young girl falls in love with Mattia who requits her love and leaves her mature lover. Carla does not accept this love defeat and she does her best to revenge the betrayal and to try an impossible reconquest by sending anonymous letters, writing blackmails and even seducing Mattia's girlfriend. Also, Elena does not admit any defeat and she kills her opponent. The investigation of commissioner Franchetti (Pagni) is immediately deadlocked due to the power and respectability of the Mazzarinis. Elena and Mattia marry in a church with a sumptuous ceremony. Franco Bixio, Fabio Frizzi, and Vince Tempera have written a monothematic score based on a recurrent romantic and sad theme for piano and orchestra, "Carla's Theme", introduced in a modern version with rhythmics (side A of the original single) and reprised with variations. This theme gets alternated with dancefloor motifs with an ancient and popular flavor like "Immagini Sfocate" introduced and reprised, and with a fox-trot. For Digitmovies' CD presentation they have used the stereo master tape of the original single issued in 1978, as well as the session master tapes mixed in mono and partially in full stereo. An OST which deserved it to be rescued and preserved on CD.
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2011 release. Digitmovies pay tribute to the cinema of Eriprando Visconti with the CD release of scores from his most famous movies: La Orca and its sequel Oedipus Orca, and Una Spirale Di Nebbia. La Orca was shot in 1976 and it tells the story of the kidnapping of Alice, the daughter of a rich industrialist in Pavia, during the years of terrorism in the Italy of the late '70s in Italy. The movie is full of an unhealthy atmosphere and, with a strong scenario that underlines the natures of the two main characters and the reversal of the roles when the plot ends with a cold epilogue. Also in 1976, Visconti directed the sequel Oedipus Orca with the same protagonist. In this movie, the girl, strongly marked by the tragic experience of the kidnapping, comes back home, and she is resentful against her father who did not want to pay for the ransom. Again, a family of the upper middle class is the main protagonist of the Visconti movie Una Spirale Di Nebbia: During a hunt, the wife of a rich property owner is killed by a rifle shot fired off by her husband. During the investigations of the police to discover if it has been a murder or an accident, the relationships among the characters of the "killer's" family members are examined. This double-CD set in full stereo is possible thanks to Cinevox. On the first CD is the complete OST of Oedipus Orca by James Dashow: Besides the selected tracks for the original LP album, about 21 minutes of extra music have now been included. This OST keeps a constant balance between fascinating experimental electronic atmospheres, mixed with jazzy music with sax performance. Federico Monti Arduini's score for La Orca includes two romantic tracks for Moog synthesizer and orchestra performed by Il Guardiano del Faro which were issued as a single in 1976. Digitmovies have also discovered two additional unreleased tracks, one for piano and one for two harpsichords. On the second CD, Digitmovies present Ivan Vandor's complete OST for Una Spirale Di Nebbia (1977), a score where two main themes are alternated with each other in a rarefied atmosphere between romantic, classic, and noir. Besides the two tracks of the original 45rpm single, Digitmovies were able to use the complete master tapes of the recording sessions.
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2003 release. A double feature dedicated at genre horror/thriller. For the first time on CD the complete original soundtrack for the thriller directed by Sergio Pastore with Sylva Koscina, Anthony Steffen, and Giacomo Rossi Stuart. Manuel De Sica composed a musical comment where a rhythmic love theme born with dissonance music to indicate and comment the mysterious killer. This CD include also the premiere recording of the complete soundtrack of the horror splatter "Raptors Killing Birds" music by Carlo Maria Cordio and directed by Claudio Lattanti.
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2010 release. Digitmovies present on a double-CD set two complete OSTs from the two comedy western movies Due Mafiosi Nel Far West and I Due Sergenti Del Generale Custer with the cool comedy pair Franco Franchi and Ciccio Ingrassia. Due Mafiosi Nel Far West (aka "Two Gangsters In The Far West") was directed in 1964 by Giorgio Simonelli. The time is the late 19th century: The two Sicilians Franco and Ciccio are paying off their punishment in jail for having stolen two mules. Soon after having been set free, they leave for Texas to rescue a gold mine owned by their grandfathers which is now in the bandits' hand. I Due Sergenti Del Generale Custer (aka "Two Sergeants Of General Custer") was directed in 1965 also by Giorgio Simonelli. Franco and Ciccio La Pera are two Yankee soldiers of Sicilian roots who, during the American Secession War, are accused of desertion and condemned to death. A secret plan of the army saves their lives, but there are still many troubles ahead for the two. Never released before, both scores come directly from the mono mastertapes archived at RCA. Due Mafiosi Nel Far West, scored by Giorgio Fabor (Fabio Borgazzi), one of the most noted Italian musicians. This OST is very varied and based on two main themes: "Fuoco Nel Cielo" ("Fire In The Sky"), a brilliant western-flavored motif performed by Giancarlo Guardabassi which is introduced in "Titoli Di Testa" and reprised and "Due Mafiosi Nel Far West" performed by Ciccio and Franco themselves and then played in instrumental versions. The OST includes saloon music for solo piano, flamenco themes for electric solo guitar, and dramatic orchestral music. I Due Sergenti Del Generale Custer features the music score by Angelo F. Lavagnino. The score is based on the amusing main title theme, a funny whistled march, resumed throughout and in the "Finale". Lavagnino has written suspense and mystery music for the most dramatic and action scenes of the movie, a delicate and nostalgic love theme for violin and trumpet, and several dances for the scenes in the fort. This double-CD set collects two hours of music from the Italian silver age -- a sincere tribute to the inimitable Franco Franchi and Ciccio Ingrassia.
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Digitmovies presents for the first time on CD Aldo Piga's complete original soundtrack for the by for two films: 5 Tombe Per Un Medium (aka "Terror Creatures From The Grave"), a Gothic horror film shot in 1966 by Massimo Pupillo and 1964's Il Mostro Dell' Opera (aka "The Vampire Of The Opera") one of the first Italian horror films directed by the specialist Renato Polselli. 5 Tombe Per Un Medium, starring the Gothic movie queen Barbara Steele, tells the story of a notary, who receives a letter from a doctor, researcher of occultism, who invites him to his villa to prepare his last will. Massimo Pupillo realizes one of the best Italian Gothic of the '60s, filmed in beautiful black-and-white and full of evocative images, such as the showcase of the cut-off art pictures that come alive and the sinister creaking of the invisible pall bearer, announcer of death. In Il Mostro Dell' Opera, a group of artists rents a theater for rehearsals of a show. Soon they discover the presence of a monstrous individual who sows terror and death by decimating the group. Eventually, the monster will be eliminated. For Digitmovies' CD they used the mono master tapes of the original recording sessions. Aldo Piga has written two symphonic scores that give a wink to those of the British Hammer studios and of the American AIP productions with a wild performance of the orchestra which creates the background for the scenes of pure terror, alternated with moments of mystery. Both OSTs feature a main theme with ancient, almost Celtic flavor. In the film 5 Tombe Per Un Medium, you can hear a version of this theme performed by a little girl, but on the master tapes only a vocal which is sung both in Italian and English by an adult female, does exist. Piga reprises this charming theme with bass in a dance floor manner in the end titles and its alternate versions as bonus tracks, backing tracks maybe purposed for a song on a record which then never saw the light in those days. For Il Mostro Dell' Opera the author has used the musical saw and the Theremin, typical sounds of horror movies of the past, to describe scenes of tension and fear, alternated with nightclub dancefloor tunes. As bonus track the label included a rare and fascinating take in stereo performed by the Theremin.
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2011 release. Digitmovies presents on CD for the very first time Angelo F. Lavagnino's complete original soundtrack for the Italian gothic movie Il Castello Dei Morti Vivi (aka "Castle Of The Living Dead"). Directed in 1964 by Herbert Wise (Luciano Ricci) and starring Christopher Lee, Gaia Germani, Philippe Leroy, Jacques Stanislawski, Donald Sutherland, Luciano Pigozzi, Renato Terra Caizzi, Antonio De Martino, Ennio Antonelli, Mirko Valentin, and Luigi Bonos. In the early 19th century a caravan of vagabond artists reaches the far-away castle of the count Drago (Lee) who engaged them for a private performance. Dark omens obscure the journey. In fact, in the gloomy castle tragic events will happen: The nobleman does not have any interest for dramatic art and he only wants to get new bodies which he can add to his very singular collection of embalmed creatures. Inoculating a serum which he himself has extracted from a very rare plant, the count who is obsessed by the fear of death immediately petrifies every living being he likes to appease by contemplating a fragment of the eternity. Angelo Francesco Lavagnino, one of the most famous film music composers, has written a particularly gloomy OST, performed by few instruments that create gothic atmospheres and almost anticipate by a few years the psychedelia. These sound dimensions of big tension, sometimes aggressively dramatic, sometimes quietly magical, describe all the evil which resides in the castle of Drago, a true demon with a human aspect. As main theme Lavagnino has written a ballad with an ancient flavor introduced in the main titles and reprised later. A tech note: The only master tapes which have survived in mono until today, although in good condition, contain a notable hiss which in the slower passages did sometimes cover up the music itself. Therefore, although contrary to our usual approach, Digitmovies had to intervene by using filters of hiss reduction and they did add some light reverb for a better listening experience of material recorded in those days in 1964. A proper rescue and preservation of an Italian silver age OST and of the music art of Angelo Francesco Lavagnino.
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2010 release. Digitmovies releases, for the very first time on CD, the complete original soundtrack by Angelo Francesco Lavagnino for the movie Totò D'arabia (Aka "Totò Of Arabia") directed in 1964 by Spanish director Josè Antonio De La Loma with screenplay and scenario by Bruno Corbucci and Giovanni Grimaldi and starring the great Italian comedian Totò (stage name of Prince Antonio De Curtis), Nieves Navarro (aka Susan Scott), Fernando Sancho, Georges Rigaud, Mario Castellani, and Luigi Pavese. In the movie, Totò plays a former Italian soldier who is now working as a servant at the British intelligence service and is then upgraded to secret agent with the name of Agent 008 with the purpose to persuade the ruler of Shamara, sheik Ali El Buzur to yield oil to the United Kingdom. After a short stay in Barcelona to get further information, Totò moves to Kuwait where he succeeds in defeating the Egyptian, Turkish, and Russian secret services. To outdo the CIA, Totò uses the thirty wives of the sheik who at the end he will adopt and as El Buzur II he will run Shamara's refinery from Naples. The movie is a parody of the David Lean classic with similar situations and settings, and Lavagnino himself has written a theme which in a burlesque way quotes the famous motif by Maurice Jarre. For this CD, Digitmovies has used the original session master tapes recorded in mono sound, but they discovered two tracks which were mixed in stereo and which could be added as a coda to the mono OST. After an introduction that quotes the theme by Jarre, a theme for harpsichord and orchestra with a Spanish flavor appears. Lavagnino has written a very varied OST: A theme à la James Bond and several suspense tracks performed by few instruments, but very effective at the same time for mystery and spy scenes, alternated with tracks of various genres like funny little marches, Spanish music for the scene placed at Plaza del Toro in Barcelona, a sad western Deguello, romantic music for orchestra, and belly dances. The movie and this CD close with the "Finale" which after a romantic intro features a merry Tarantella as a tribute to the mythic Totò.
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2013 release. Digitmovies presents, for the first time on CD, Armando Trovajoli's complete and pleasant original soundtrack, in full stereo, for the comedy movie with grotesque tones La Banca Di Monate (Aka "Bank Of Monate"). Directed in 1975 by Francesco Massaro and starring Walter Chiari, Vincent Gardenia, Magali Noël, Gigi Ballista, Paolo Bonacelli, Luigi Diberti, Giorgio Del Bene, Quinto Parmeggiani, and Lia Tanzi. To defend his interests and enhance them with the savings of the citizens, Santino Paleari (Gardenia), a confectionery manufacturer in the town of Monate, has founded a bank where the director is in fact the accountant Adelmo Pigorini (Chiari). The new chief who gets easily betrayed by his wife Melissa (Noël), looks for a safe place in the country in the Varese area, where he has been welcomed, by offering his daughter Simona to the degenerate Carletto Paleari. After the marriage coup has failed, the bank is targeted by bandits behind whom the Sicilian mobster Dr. Massera (Bonacelli) hides. Through the ever-growing operations of the boss, Monate is easily reached by the highway and rises to the rank of an industrial town. So Pigorini, threatened with bankruptcy, manipulates a robbery in order to work it in his own favor: after Paleari dies as a result of all these events, Massera creates a solid empire; Mr. Adelmo becomes president in place of the deceased Paleari. For this CD, assembled at the Beat Records Studios, that sincerely wants to pay homage to the Trovajoli, the stereo master tapes of the sessions were used which gave Digitmovies the chance to use every recorded note with arrangements done by Renato Serio who also conducted the orchestra. Trovajoli has written a brilliant main theme which emerges as a baroque march that the composer reprises, alternating it with romantic, funny and sometimes mysterious motifs. Digitmovies thank Beat Records for giving them the opportunity to issue an unreleased OST of an immense composer.
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2011 release. Digitmovies releases on CD the definitive version of Bruno Nicolai's original soundtrack for the 1969 movie Bruciatelo Vivo! (aka "Land Raiders"). Directed by Nathan H. Juran, produced by Charles H. Schneer for Columbia Pictures and starring Telly Savalas, George Maharis, Arlene Dahl, Janet Landgard, and Fernando Rey. After having moved to Forge River, a town in the United States, the Mexican Vincente Jardenas (Savlaas) changes his name to Vincent Carden. The man has become a very rich land owner and fierce enemy of the Indians who is willing to pay ten dollars for every scalp of them. His brother Pablo (Maharis) enters the scene, considered guilty for having killed his girlfriend Luisa. At the end, the Apaches take their revenge, destroy the town and also kill Vincent. Sheriff Mainefield, together with his daughter Kate, the only survivor of the massacre, just before dying confess to Pablo that in fact Vincent was the true culprit of the seduction and death of the ill-fated Luisa. In 1969 a 45rpm single with two tracks and a 33rpm album with twelve selections was issued on the Beverly Hills label, but this OST was released for the first time on CD by the Belgian Prometheus label. Both the vinyl records and the CD feature a weird sound, a hybrid between a mono and fake stereo, but the stereophonic master tapes do not exist at all. Digitmovies' CD was possible thanks to the Nicolai estate which till today has preciously kept the original mono master tapes of the 1969 recording session. Digitmovies present the definitive version of this fabulous OST with twenty-two tracks. Bruno Nicolai has written one of his best OST's for the Western genre with an absolutely unique and recognizable style where an epic main theme -- introduced in "Titoli Di Testa" -- for orchestra, the choir of Cantori Moderni di Alessandroni and the harmonica of Franco De Gemini triumphs. A sad love theme appears as memory of Luisa. It gets alternated with several violent and dramatic tracks which form the background to ambushes, attacks, and bloody battles between cowboys and Indians. As bonus tracks, there are two rarities: the main theme with the film version without choir during the Apache attack and the stereophonic version thanks to the discovery of two tracks with orchestra and choir which had been recorded separately.
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2006 release. Reissue; originally released in 1969. A true classic soundtrack by Bruno Nicolai is presented here for the very first time on CD: La Battaglia Del Deserto (aka "Desert Battle"), an adventure war movie directed by Mino Loy and starring Italian actor George Hilton, French actor Robert Hossein and USA actor Frank Wolff. In 1969 a monaural LP album had been released on the Italian Gemelli label. After several research in the Archives of Edipan Digitmovies located the original album mastertape as well as the mastertapes containing the complete recording session. Apart from being in magnificent condition, we discovered that the mastertapes had been mixed in great stereo sound. For certain obscure reasons, a mono mix of the selected tracks was prepared for the original LP album, therefore our CD is the very first stereo presentation of this wonderful score. Nicolai composed an epic theme for large orchestra deliciously arranged with a beat style and introduced here in "Titoli Di Testa - Versione Film", a more up-tempo version compared to the known one from the original album. This particular motif -- reprised and also cited in action and suspense cues -- perfectly represents the boundless desert where the dramatic adventure takes place. The romantic side of the story is musically emphasized. Bruno Nicolai also wrote some lounge themes used as "source music" in the movie. On this CD release every single note found on the session tape was included. Includes eight-page, full color booklet.
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Digitmovies explores the decade of the 1980s by releasing for the very first time and in full stereo the soundtracks of the prolific Bruno Zambrini from two successful Italian comedies produced by Mario and Vittorio Cecchi Gori: Missione Eroica I Pompieri 2 ("Heroic Mission The Firefighters 2") of 1987 directed by Giorgio Capitani and Scuola Di Ladri Parte Seconda ("School Of Thieves Part 2") of 1987 directed by Neri Parenti. In the first movie we have a team of heroic firefighters which sets loose only troubles, in the second one the misadventures of two funny thieves. At the time of the films' releases RCA produced a series of promotional albums which were printed only in a limited edition for use as radio and TV background. Dedicated to the OSTs of Bruno Zambrini, Manuel De Sica, Fabio Liberatori, they did contain selections from the 1980s comedies -- of course these are vinyl LPs which are impossible to find nowadays. In addition to the assembled master tapes for the library LPs, Digitmovies have also used for this CD the complete session master tapes in full stereo which have been preserved in the RCA archives. In the '80s musicians definitely worked with much economy by using more electronic keyboards than the standard orchestra which were then accompanied by acoustic instruments such as bass guitar, electric guitars, drums, and sax. However, the final result was almost always great, never on a poor quality level, and inevitably the sound was strongly influenced by the Italian dance music which was so popular in those years on the radio and in the discos. This CD is a very enjoyable listening experience (in particular while driving in a car), an authentic and endless explosion of joy which turns our minds back to a time twenty years ago. For Missione Eroica I Pompieri 2, Zambrini alternates a heroic march with dance sound with funny themes, sexy music, a sweet waltz, and dramatic and suspenseful sequences. For Scuola Di Ladri Parte Seconda, Zambrini has written a love theme with dancefloor flavor called "Blue Velvet" which is introduced in the main titles by a male voice and then reprised in instrumental versions and performed by a female voice. There is also some action and dramatic music.
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2013 release. Digitmovies, in collaboration with the Sugar Group, presents on CD, for the first time, Carlo Rustichelli's complete original soundtrack in full stereo by for two comedy movies starring the cool duo Franchi and Ingrassia: I Due Vigili and Ma Chi T'ha Dato La Patente?. I Due Vigili (aka "The Two Traffic Policemen") was directed in 1967 by Giuseppe Orlandini. The traffic policeman Francesco Lo Cascio, paired with the traffic policeman Ciccio Merendino, is a relentless hunter of fines, who by imposing a fine on the mayor, succeeds in getting a promotion. The envious Merendino, who tries to get a promotion for himself, in the end only manages to push both of them back towards more strenuous tasks. Both of them will redeem themselves by arresting a gang of robbers, therefore going back into service as brigade motorcyclists. Ma Chi T'ha Dato La Patente? was directed in 1970 by Nando Cicero. Holding a shabby driving school, Franco and Ciccio suffer from the theft of the only car they had. They buy another one, but don't know that it is rigged. Two beautiful American girls try to remove them from troubles. Carlo Rustichelli always had a great and rare quality: He never made a distinction between movies of the A or the B series, and the final result of his soundtracks was always remarkable. For I Due Vigili Maestro Rustichelli has composed a wild go-go dancefloor "shake" for orchestra and choir introduced in the main titles, which is then reprised in an alternative version for the scene where young people are dancing in a flat and their noise causes the neighborhood to call the two funny cops. The composer has written a mysterious lounge theme and funny music that without doubt contains all the typical elements of his well-known style. As a bonus track Digitmovies include the unused main titles (Tr.11). For Ma Chi T'ha Dato La Patente?, Carlo Rustichelli wrote a nice theme performed by the whistle, choir, and orchestra, a love theme with a jazz flavor, funny themes with a circus flavor, a charming slow ballad with a baroque-beat flavor performed by I Cantori Moderni di Alessandroni. For Digitmovies' CD they used every note recorded in stereo during the original sessions. One more record to celebrate the musical art of Carlo Rustichelli.
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2009 release. Digitmovies releases, for the very first time, the complete versions of three orchestral original soundtracks by Carlo Rustichelli on one CD. They were composed for three adventure movies placed in the desert and steppe, all of them directed by Amerigo Anton (aka Tanio Boccia) in 1964 and starring Kirk Morris. Il Dominatore Del Deserto (aka "Desert Raiders"): In North Africa the tyrant Yussuff makes a retaliation attack on a village and kidnaps Fatima with whom he falls in love. But the woman refuses him and takes a fancy to the young and beautiful Nadir (Morris) who tries to challenge the rival. Maciste Alla Corte Dello Zar (aka "Atlas Against The Czar"): Under the reign of the ruthless czar Nicolaiev, a group of scientists discovers inside a cave the body of the giant Maciste (Morris), who, after getting reanimated, acquires his powerful strength again. I Predoni Della Steppa (aka "Terror Of The Steppes"): Samira, daughter of Yesen and promised to the powerful Altan as bride, is kidnapped by Sandar (Morris) and his marauders. Sandar falls in love with the girl and he returns her, but when the greedy Altan invades the lands of Yesen, the young man revolts. This CD is possible one more time thanks to the big help of C.A.M. who have perfectly preserved in their vaults the mono mastertapes containing all that Rustichelli had originally recorded for these three movies. Much of the score material within these movies was filled with library music by the same composer, but all of the main themes and their variations were especially composed for them. Four tracks from Il Dominatore Del Deserto, two tracks from Maciste Alla Corte Dello Zar, and four tracks from I Predoni Della Steppa have already been available on through C.A.M. Digitmovies have now added eighteen unreleased tracks which were discovered on the mono mastertapes. Carlo Rustichelli, who has been much inspired by the desert, steppe, and other exotic locations used in these three movies, has succeeded in creating magnificent epic themes with a Middle-Eastern flavor which refer back to the great fables from the past like "The Thousand And One Nights", alternated with exotic dances and battle themes. Another proper score rescue of the Italian silver age.
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2012 release. Digitmovies, with collaboration of C.A.M. srl a division of Gruppo Sugar, release for the first time on CD two original soundtracks by Carlo Rustichelli from two 1964 movies: Il Figlio Di Cleopatra (aka "Son Of Cleopatra") and Coriolano, Eroe Senza Patria (aka "Thunder Of Battle"). Il Figlio Di Cleopatra was directed by Ferdinando Baldi and stars Mark Damon, Scilla Gabel, Arnoldo Foà, Corrado Annicelli, Franco Fantasia, Livio Lorenzon, Alberto Lupo, Paolo Gozlino, Attilio Severini, and Alberto Cevenini. El Kebir (Damon), a natural son of Caesar and Cleopatra, rebels to Petronius, the Roman governor placed in Egypt by the emperor Octavian. After gathering some tribes of nomads, kidnaps the governor's daughter, to win his cause, but Petronius doesn't yield. Octavian will fix things. Coriolano, Eroe Senza Patria was directed by Giorgio Ferroni and stars Gordon Scott, Alberto Lupo, Lilla Brignone, Aldo Bufi Landi, Nerio Bernardi, Peter Shepherd, Tullio Altamura, Pierre Cressoy, Nello Pazzafini, Philippe Hersent, and Rosalba Blacks. The legendary General Coriolanus (Scott), falsely accused and banished from Rome, leads a revolt against the Urbe so the truth will triumph. The OST of Il Figlio Di Cleopatra derives from the recording session, in full stereo master tapes kept until today in excellent condition. Carlo Rustichelli has written an epic main theme with Deguello style for trumpet and orchestra for the character of El Kebir. The plot is underscored by music of Eastern flavor and mysterious passages interspersed with martial music like a triumphant march and a rhythmic ostinato for a chase scene. The author has also written a delicate love theme. The OST of Coriolano, Eroe Senza Patria contained library music composed by Rustichelli for other movies like I Giganti Della Tessaglia (1960), but for this CD Digitmovies include only the original material especially written and recorded for this movie in mono: five very romantic themes, the love theme, and a heroic theme for the character of Coriolanus, a man unjustly accused of things he has not committed and who is seeking to recover his life. A proper rescue and preservation of Italian silver age.
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2010 release. Digitmovies releases for the very first time on CD Carlo Rustichelli's complete original soundtrack in mono by for the adventure movie Il Sergente Klems (aka "Sergeant Klems"). Directed in 1971 by Sergio Grieco and starring Peter Strauss, Massimo Serato, Pier Paolo Capponi, Tina Aumont, Howard Ross, Pasquale Basile, Rossella Como, Luciana Paluzzi, Calisto Calisti, Dada Gallotti, Franco Ressel, Massimo Righi, Mario Donen, Raffaele Curi, Peter Berling, and Consalvo Dell'arti. Otto Joseph Klems, a young German officer, is imprisoned in 1918 during the battle of Artois. To escape death, he changes his own uniform with that of a dead Frenchman and is sent to Morocco where he is enlisted into the Foreign Legion. Arrested by Moroccans, he deserts and decides to fight on the rebels' side against the Spanish rulers. This project is possible thanks to Beat Records who have preserved the master tapes in mono of the original session conducted by Alessandro Blonksteiner in their archives. Carlo Rustichelli has written an orchestral score rich with all the musical elements of his long career. The author has composed an epic and nostalgic main theme which is introduced and characterized by exotic string glissandos and often reprised with orchestral variations. It gets alternated with mysterious, dramatic and action music often with a Middle Eastern atmosphere. A proper musical rescue and preservation of the Italian silver age as a tribute to Carlo Rustichelli.
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2010 release. Digitmovies releases, for the very first time in its complete form on CD, Carlo Rustichelli's orchestral original soundtrack for the dramatic movie Le 4 Giornate Di Napoli (aka "The Four Days Of Neaples"). Directed in 1962 by Nanni Loy and starring Gian Maria Volonté, Aldo Giuffré, Lea Massari, Jean Sorel, Georges Wilson, Regina Bianchi, and Frank Wolff. This movie, inspired by the 1956 book by Aldo De Jaco La Città Insorge: Le Quattro Giornate Di Napoli, was produced by Goffredo Lombardo for Titanus and was nominated at the 1962 Academy Awards for best foreign movie. In 1963 it won three Silver Ribbon prizes for direction, scenario, and best supporting actress (Regina Bianchi). On the September 28th, 1943, following the execution of some Italian sailors, a violent revolt of the population of Naples starts so that within four days the German occupiers are defeated and have to flee from the city before the arrival of the Allied forces. In this collective action -- also singular episodes -- popular characters are featured as protagonists of the rebellion: from the boys who did escape from the reformatory to enjoy the insurrection to the little Gennarino Capuozzo who dies on the barricades as well as many other characters among whom we must especially remember the student Adolfo Pansini, who sacrificed his own life to rescue his compatriots. This CD is possible thanks the support of C.A.M. in whose archives all the mono master tapes of the original session have been preserved. Carlo Rustichelli has written one of the most beautiful themes of his whole career and one of which he was particularly proud: "La Tarantella Della Liberazione". This motif is always reprised in the OST with continuous symphonic variations, alternating mysterious and suspenseful passages with others which are more dramatic and action-like. To pay further tribute to dear Rustichelli, Digitmovies close the CD indeed with a suite which the composer himself had assembled for the CD "Carlo Rustichelli, Ritratto Di Un Autore", released by C.A.M. in 2001. A right and proper rescue and preservation of the Italian silver age.
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2012 release. Digitmovies, with collaboration of Gruppo Sugar, release for the first time on CD, Carlo Rustichelli's complete original soundtrack, in mono, for the movie Rosmunda E Alboino (aka "Sword Of The Conqueror"). The movie was directed in 1961 by Carlo Campogalliani and starred Jack Palance, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Guy Madison, Carlo D'Angelo, Edy Vessel, Andrea Bosic, Ivan Palance, Vittorio Sanipoli, Olga Romanelli, Nicola Solari, Giovanni Vari, Vittorio Vaser, Vladimiro Tuicovich, Vladimiro Picciafuochi, Aldo Pini, Renato Mori, Spartaco Nale, Barbara Nardi, Amina Pirani Maggi, and Cesare Polacco. The Gepid Amalchi (Madison), who is guilty of not having avoided the disastrous defeat against the Lombards, is accused of high treason by his king Cunimondo (Bosic) and removed from his position. However, Alboin (Palance), the king of the Lombards, who is happy about his victory, has other intentions and wants to ally with the Gepids to attack Rome. As a pledge of the new covenant, Alboin asks for Rosmunda (Drago) to become his bride. Despite being Amalchi's wife and the mother of his child, she accepts the proposal for the good of their people. The brother of Alboin, however, is killed in the tournament which takes place before the wedding. The Lombard, who ignores the fact that the killing was schemed by a counselor of Cunimondo who operates secret negotiations with Byzantium, creates a bloodbath among the Gepids, and forces Rosmunda to marry him anyway. But Amalchi, who has gathered the scattered tribes of his people, suddenly attacks the palace of the Lombards and kills Alboin. For the realization of this CD Digitmovies used the mono master tapes of the original session, releasing every recorded note under the masterful conducting of Carlo Savina. Rustichelli has composed an orchestral OST with an ancient flavor, featuring vigorous passages for strings, brass, and percussion for battle scenes which get alternated with a delicate love theme. This OST is a must-have addition to each archive dedicated to soundtracks of high artistic quality. A proper rescue and preservation of the Italian silver age and a sincere tribute to the musical art of Carlo Rustichelli.
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