Il colosso di Rodi (1961)

Calificación de los usuarios:

5.8/10   

Director:

Sergio Leone

Escritores:

Luciano Chitarrini (writer)
Ennio De Concini (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

noviembre 1961 (USA)

Género:

Aventura | Drama | Historia

Frase comercial:

A Monster Statue Of Bronze And Stone Twenty Stories Tall Guarded Their Secret!

Plot:

While on holiday in Rhodes, Athenian war hero Darios becomes involved in two different plots to overthrow the tyrannical king, one from Rhodian patriots and the other from sinister Phoenician agents.

Plot Keywords:

Colossus | Earthquake | Phoenicia | Statue | Spectacles

Comentarios de los usuarios:

"I wanted so much but I die without getting anything."

Reparto

Rory Calhoun	...	Darios
Lea Massari	...	Diala
Georges Marchal	...	Peliocles
Conrado San Martín	...	Thar (as Conrado Sanmartin)
Ángel Aranda	...	Koros
Mabel Karr	...	Mirte
Mimmo Palmara	...	Ares
Roberto Camardiel	...	Serse
George Rigaud	...	Lissipu (as Jorge Rigaud)
Alf Randal		(as Alf Randall)

También conocida como:

El coloso de Rodas (Spain)
Le colosse de Rhodes (France)
The Colossus of Rhodes (USA)

Duración:

127 min | Italy:139 min | Spain:123 min (Spanish version)

País:

Spain | Italy | France

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Relación de Aspecto:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Clasificación:

Spain:T | West Germany:16 (nf) | Finland:K-16 (cut) (1962) | Sweden:15 | UK:A

Locaciones de Filmación:

Laredo, Santander, Cantabria, Spain

Compañía:

CTI (Cinema Television International)

Trivialidades:

The real Colossus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, was 32 meters high and stood on a hill. The cinematic version stands 110 meters and its legs bestride the harbor.

Errores:

Errores Reales: In the film the Colossus of Rhodes is destroyed by a conveniently timed earthquake shortly after being completed. The real Colossus of Rhodes stood for over a half century before it was, like its cinematic counterpart, destroyed by an earthquake.

Citas:

Mirte: [seductively] I can grant your most secret desire.
Darios: Which one?

Conexiones de Película:

Editado en Caligula et Messaline (1981)

"I wanted so much but I die without getting anything."

Leone served his apprenticeship in film by assisting various Italian directors as well as Walsh, Wyler and Melvyn Le Roy… By the late '50s he was writing scripts for gladiatorial epics, the genre in which he first gained directing experience, and took over "The Last Days of Pompeii" when the director Mario Bonnard fell ill before directing alone "The Colossus of Rhodes." Not until 1964, however, did he establish himself as a true original with his first film in what would come to be known as the Man With No Name trilogy…

"The Colossus of Rhodes" begins in the island of Rhodes in the Mediterranean Sea 280 B.C.

Rhodes is celebrating a proud day in her history… A magnificent statue will now dominate the seas… But the Colossus was erected in blood and the people in Rhodes do not want slavery… The chief of the rebels, Peliocles (Georges Marchal) needs a man like that visitor Dario (Rory Calhoun), who's a great warrior in Greece…

Thar (Conrado San Martín)—who is in love with Diala (Lia Massari)—is no longer content with the power Serse (Roberto Camardiel) stupidly bestowed upon him… He wants this beautiful island to sell to Phoenicia, than he'll be the reigning monarch… Of course the rebels don't have enough men to attack them openly…

There's only one plan, to enter the Colossus… But the Colossus is impregnable…How could they hope to get in? Rhodes' best soldiers are imprisoned underground… A heavy gate seals the only exit… This gate can only be opened by a control in the Colossus…

If you want to see how the Colossus is a huge trap don't miss this Sergio Leone's directorial debut…