This is a 12.5" x 27.5" Italian locandina poster for the 1961 Fernando
Cerchio film Nefertiti Queen of the Nile written by John Byrne,
Fernando Cerchio, Emerico Papp and Ottavio Poggi and starring Jeanne
Craine as Nefertiti. Plot summary: The film is an historical drama
about Nefertiti's rise to the Egyptian throne in the 14th Century BC
in the midst of a violent Chaldean challenge to the Egyptian state
religion.
Cast and crew: Fernando Cerchio, John Byrne, Emerico Papp, Ottavio
Poggi, Jeanne Craine, Vincent Price, Edmund Purdom, Amedeo Nazzari,
Liana Orfei, Raf Baldassarre, Carlo D'Angelo, Alberto Farnese, Romano
Giomini, Giulio Marchetti, Luigi Marturano, Clelia Matania, Piero
Palermini, Umberto Raho, Gino Talamo, Adriano Vitale
This is a 29" x 43" Argentine poster for the 1961 Umberto Scarpelli
film The Giant of Metropolis [Il gigante di Metropolis]
based on a story by Gino Stafford, screenplay by Sabatino Ciuffini,
Ambrogio Molteni, Oreste Palella, Emimmo Salvi and Umberto Scarpelli
and starring Gordon Mitchell as Obro. Plot summary: In 20000 BC the
people on the lost continent of Atlantis have developed an advanced
civilization and are ruling the earth. A powerful man named Obro is
sent by his father [Mani Meniconi] to the capital city Metropolis to
oppose its godlessness and hubris; the scientists in Metropolis are
trying to subvert the process of death but their evil efforts are only
causing destruction. They do not see that only love will be able to
prevail as the source of life, and so they use their scientific powers
to deprive all the people of Metropolis of their free will. When Obro
and his group enter the Valley of Metropolis King Yoh-tar [Rolando
Lupi] orders his henchmen to unleash the magnetic whirlwinds of death
against them. Only Obro survives the attack to be brought before King
Yoh-tar; the two immediately get into a hot verbal confrontation
vowing to destroy each other. Thus begins an epic tale about a
life-and-death struggle between the forces of good and evil portrayed
on a huge futuristic set that looks as if it was built for a Buck
Rogers film.
Cast and crew: Umberto Scarpelli, R. Nichols, Sebatino Ciuffini, Ambrogio Molteni, Emimmo Salvi, Oreste Palella, Gino Stafford, Gordon Mitchell, Furio Meniconi, Liana Orfei, Bella Cortez, Rolando Lupi, Roldano Lupi, Marietto, Omero Gargano, Mario Meniconi, Carlo Tamberlani, Luigi Moneta, Ugo Sasso, Renato Terra, CArlo Enrici, Leopoldo Savona, Liana Orfei
This is a 30" x 40" UK quad stone litho poster made by an unkown
designer to promote the 1962 Curtis Bernhardt 90-minute MGM color
film Damon and Pythias, aka The Tyrant of the Syracuse,
starring Guy Williams and Don Burnett based on a story by Samuel Marx
with English screenplay by Samuel Marx, Franco Riganti, Bridget Boland
and Barry Orlinger and cinematography by Aldo Tonti. Plot summary:
This film is an accurate portrayal of a famous Greek legend from the
Fifth Century B.C. symbolizing friendship. Damon [Guy Williams] and
Pythias [Don Burnett] were Athenian followers of the philosopher
Pythagoras, who went to Syracuse where Pythagorean ideas of universal
brotherhood were forbidden. In Syracuse the tyrant Dionysius [Arnoldo
Foa] accused Pythias of plotting against him and sentenced him to
death. Pythias accepted the sentence but asked for time to visit his
ailing wife Nerissa [Ilaria Occhini] and settle his affairs before he
was killed; Dionysius reluctantly allowed this when Damon offered to
remain in Syracuse as a hostage until Pythias returned, expecting he
would end up killing Damon instead of Pythias. When Pythias returned
to be executed as he had promised to do, Dionysius was so delighted
and amazed about their friendship that he pardoned them both.
Wikipedia has an entry about the legend of Damon and
Pythias here.
Cast and crew: Guy Williams, Don Burnett, Aldo Tonti, Curtis Bernhardt, Samuel Marx, Franco Riganti, Paola Ojetti, Bridget Boland, Barry Oringer, Ilaria Occhini, Liana Orfei, Marina Berti, Arnoldo Foa, Carlo Giustini, Aldo Silvani, Andrea Bosic, Maurizio Baldoni, Franco Fantasia, Osvaldo Ruggieri, Lawrence Montainge Enrico Glori, Gianni Bonagura, Vittorio Bonos, Carlo Rizzo, Giovanna Maculani, Enzo Fiermonte, Tibrio Mitri, Franco Murgia, Luigi Bonos, Maurizio Bedoni, Giovanni Bagliori, Carolyn De Fonseca, Carla Bonavera, Enrico Salvatore
