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    The document summarizes the history of historical epics filmed in Italy in the 1950s and 1960s. It discusses how American films like Quo Vadis and Ben-Hur were filmed in Italy to take advantage of lower production costs. It also discusses Italian-made historical films of this era like Sins of Rome and Attila starring Anthony Quinn. Pietro Francisci unsuccessfully searched for years for a physique actor to play Hercules for a planned film about the mythical hero but the project was never realized.

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    The document summarizes the history of historical epics filmed in Italy in the 1950s and 1960s. It discusses how American films like Quo Vadis and Ben-Hur were filmed in Italy to take advantage of lower production costs. It also discusses Italian-made historical films of this era like Sins of Rome and Attila starring Anthony Quinn. Pietro Francisci unsuccessfully searched for years for a physique actor to play Hercules for a planned film about the mythical hero but the project was never realized.

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    The document summarizes the history of historical epics filmed in Italy in the 1950s and 1960s. It discusses how American films like Quo Vadis and Ben-Hur were filmed in Italy to take advantage of lower production costs. It also discusses Italian-made historical films of this era like Sins of Rome and Attila starring Anthony Quinn. Pietro Francisci unsuccessfully searched for years for a physique actor to play Hercules for a planned film about the mythical hero but the project was never realized.

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    The Italian film industry released several historical films in the early sound era, such as the
    big-budget Scipione l'Africano (Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal) in 1937. In 1949,
    the postwar Italian film industry remade Fabiola (which had been previously filmed twice in
    the silent era). The film was released in the United Kingdom and in the United States in
    1951 in an edited, English-dubbed version.
    During the 1950s, a number of American historical epics shot in Italy were released. In
    1951, MGM producer Sam Zimbalist cleverly used the lower production costs, use of frozen
    funds and the expertise of the Italian film industry to shoot the large-scale epic Quo
    Vadis in Rome. In addition to its fictional account linking the Great Fire of Rome,
    thePersecution of Christians in the Roman Empire and Emperor Nero, the film featured a
    mighty protagonist named Ursus (Italian filmmakers later made several pepla in the 1960s
    exploiting the Ursus character). MGM also planned Ben Hur to be filmed in Italy as early as
    1952.[2]
    Riccardo Freda's Sins of Rome was filmed in 1953 and released by RKO in an edited,
    English-dubbed version the following year. Unlike Quo Vadis, there were no American
    actors or production crew. The Anthony Quinn film Attila (directed by Pietro Francisci in
    1954), the Kirk Douglas epic Ulysses (co-directed by an uncredited Mario Bava in 1954)
    and Helen of Troy (directed by Robert Wise with Sergio Leone as an uncredited second unit
    director in 1955) were the first of the big peplum films of the 1950s. Riccardo Freda
    directed another peplum, Theodora, Slave Empress in 1954, starring his wife Gianna Maria
    Canale. Howard Hawks directed his Land of the Pharaohs (starring Joan Collins) in Italy and
    Egypt in 1955. Robert Rossen made his Alexander the Great in Egypt in 1956, with a music
    score by famed Italian composer Mario Nascimbene.
    To cash in on the success of the Kirk Douglas film Ulysses, Pietro Francisci planned to make
    a film about Hercules, but searched unsuccessfully for years for a phys

    the following year. Unlike Quo Vadis, there were no American actors or production crew.
    The Anthony Quinn film Attila (directed

    the following year. Unlike Quo Vadis, there were no American actors or production crew.
    The Anthony Quinn film Attila (directed

    iste e il nipote di America ("Maciste's American Nephew", 1924)


    Maciste imperatore ("Emperor Maciste", 1924)
    Maciste contro lo sceicco ("Maciste vs the Sheik", 1925)
    Maciste all'inferno ("Macis

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