Alone Against Rome (Italian: Solo contro Roma, also known as Vengeance of the Gladiators) is a 1962 peplum film directed by Luciano Ricci and starring Lang Jeffries and Rossana Podestà.[3][4]

Alone Against Rome
Directed byLuciano Ricci
Screenplay by
Produced byMarco Vicaro[1]
Starring
CinematographySilvano Ippoliti[1]
Edited byRoberto Cinquini[1]
Production
companies
  • Atlantica Cinematografica Produzione Films
  • Film Servis[2]
Release date
  • September 1962 (1962-09) (Italy)
Running time
95 minutes[1]
Countries
  • Italy
  • Yugoslavia[2]

Cast

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Release

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Alone Against Rome was released in September 1962 in Italy.[2] It was later released in the United States in December 1963 with a 100-minute running time.[2]

Reception

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In a contemporary review, the Monthly Film Bulletin described the film as a "lavishly staged" and "shot in pale, restrained colours, this Italian spectacle reduces dialogue to the minimum and concentrates on as varied a display of violent action as the most eager fan could wish for, ranging from ambushes in the forest to bloody underground revolutions and equally savage gladiatorial contests."[5] The review noted that "one has to forget the vapid, dubbed dialogue, and lumbering acting (the one exception being Philippe Leroy's villainous, cold-eyed Silla)."[5] The review also noted the second-unit director Riccardo Freda, noting that "The arena scenes, in particular, are directed with a fine sense of movement and camera style by Riccardo Freda, who has now joined that select band of second unit directors on whom this kind of film tends to rely."[5]

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Footnotes

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  1. ^ a b c d e Kinnard & Crnkovich 2017, p. 17.
  2. ^ a b c d Kinnard & Crnkovich 2017, p. 18.
  3. ^ Roberto Poppi, Mario Pecorari (2007). Dizionario del cinema italiano. I film. Gremese Editore, 2007. ISBN 978-8884405036.
  4. ^ Paolo Mereghetti. Il Mereghetti - Dizionario dei film. B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010. ISBN 8860736269.
  5. ^ a b c "Vengeance of the Gladiators "(Solo contro Roma)"". Monthly Film Bulletin. Vol. 30, no. 348. British Film Institute. 1963. p. 24. ISSN 0027-0407.

Sources

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  • Kinnard, Roy; Crnkovich, Tony (2017). Italian Sword and Sandal Films, 1908-1990. McFarland. ISBN 978-1476662916.
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