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Digitmovies is pleased to reissue, the OST by Carlo Savina for spy film Suicide Mission To Singapore (1966) (original title Goldsnake Anonima Killers). For this OST, Carlo Savina composed lounge background music, at times dominated by a mysterious Asian vibe and by sophisticated jazzy vibes. "Gold Snake", the main score, is interpreted by the fabulous voice of Iva Zanicchi, written for a symphony orchestra, and accompanied by the New Orlandi choir. The leitmotif is reprised in a shake version and a slow danceable version. The well-known actress Yoko Tani, the film's protagonist, performs the romantic piece "Crazy", which also recorded in an instrumental version. The spy aspect of the plot is emphasized by suspense and action music. The mono master tapes of the recording session were used for the remaster. LP version is the first time on vinyl; 180 gram pressing.
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LP version, first time pressing on 180 gram vinyl. Digitmovies is pleased to reissue, the OST by Carlo Savina for spy film Suicide Mission To Singapore (1966) (original title Goldsnake Anonima Killers). For this OST, Carlo Savina composed lounge background music, at times dominated by a mysterious Asian vibe and by sophisticated jazzy vibes. "Gold Snake", the main score, is interpreted by the fabulous voice of Iva Zanicchi, written for a symphony orchestra, and accompanied by the New Orlandi choir. The leitmotif is reprised in a shake version and a slow danceable version. The well-known actress Yoko Tani, the film's protagonist, performs the romantic piece "Crazy", which also recorded in an instrumental version. The spy aspect of the plot is emphasized by suspense and action music. The mono master tapes of the recording session were used for the remaster.
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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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Digitmovies release Carlo Savina's complete original soundtrack, in mono, from the movie Il Massacro Della Foresta Nera ("Hermann Der Cherusker - Die Schlacht Im Teutoburger Wald" -- "Massacre In The Black Forest"). Directed in 1966 by Ferdinando Baldi and starring Antonella Lualdi, Hans von Borsody, Cameron Mitchell, Beba Loncar, and Peter Carsten. The young Arminius (von Borsody), chief of the Germanic tribe of the Cherusceans, revolts against the Romans from whom he learned the art of military and defeats Quintilius Varus's three legions in the forest of Teutoburg. Later he is defeated by his former friend Aulus Cecina (Mitchell) and dies in battle. The director Ferdinando Baldi almost simultaneously shot All'ombra Delle Aquile (1966) and Il Massacro Della Foresta Nera with the same cast, locations and costumes (for budgetary reasons of the German production company), but the money that was invested allowed the composer Carlo Savina to write two completely different orchestral OSTs. For this release, Digitmovies have used the mono master tapes of the original session (except for the first 48 seconds of the fourth track, which is in full stereo), and each note recorded at the time appears here. Carlo Savina is perfectly able to balance the historical era of the hero Arminius by writing extremely violent and dramatic battle music introduced by the epic march of the "Titoli" dominated by the French horns and contrasting them with a sweet and lyrical love theme. A proper rescue and preservation of an OST of the Italian silver age which pays homage to the career of Carlo Savina.
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2011 release. Digitmovies release for the very first time on CD Carlo Savina's complete original soundtrack in full stereo for the movie Indagine Su Un Delitto Perfetto (Aka "The Perfect Crime") shot in 1978 by Giuseppe Rosati but credited with the pseudonym of Aaron Leviathan. The film distances itself from the tradition of several Argento-like giallo movies of the '70s; the movie recalls, both plot-wise and with regard to the typical London setting, the classic thriller novels by Agatha Christie. The death of a multinational company's chairman induces the three candidates for the chairmanship to plot the ones against the others. One of the three simulates a deadly car accident to carry out his perfect criminal plan by starting to physically eliminate the contending other ones. Together with his partner the murderer will succeed in eluding the police's suspicions. Although the movie had not few production problems, the result is more than very good and succeeds in keeping the interest in the plot strong, also thanks to the very good cast: Joseph Cotten, Leonard Mann, and Adolfo Celi play the three contending persons for the chairmanship, while they are surrounded by three female presences: Alida Valli, Janet Agren, and Gloria Guida. Moreover, the London setting, the care of the interiors and the total absence of all those elements "stolen" from the Argento movies and abused in the Italian giallo movies of the early '70s, give the movie a classic giallo touch, typically of British inspiration that recalls the early 70s giallo movies of European origin such as Delitto A Oxford (1970), 7 Cadaveri Per Scotland Yard (1971), etc. For the making of this CD, Digitmovies could use the stereo master tapes of the original session still preserved in the Savina estate. Carlo Savina has written a rhythmic main theme a mixture of jazz, progressive, and disco where the voice of Edda Dell'Orso is featured and reprised, with atonal variations, and in the "Finale". The OST is quite short, but very effective in describing the ambiguous side of the plot with a series of suggestive themes with abstract, macabre, and mysterious sounds alternated with "source" music with solo piano. A proper rescue and preservation on record as tribute to the music art of the great Carlo Savina.
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2011 release. Digitmovies present for the very first time on CD Carlo Savina's complete original soundtrack in full stereo by for the movie Ming, Ragazzi! (aka "Schiaffoni E Karate", "Mr. Hercules Against Karate", "Zwei Tolle Hunde In Hongkong"). Directed in 1973 by Antonio Margheriti and starring Tom Scott (Alberto Terracina), Fred Harris (Fernando Arrien), George Wang, Suwe Chang, Alan Collins, Robert Luao, Chang Lee, Renzo Marignano, Jolina Mitchell, and Frank Nuyen. This motion picture, written by Sergio Donati and produced by Carlo Ponti, was realized after the big success of the Bud Spencer and Terence Hill movies, but also by tipping a wink to the so many productions of the "kung-fu" genre made in Hong Kong. The two protagonists, one of them big with moustaches and beard, the other blonde and thin, both of them reprising the elements of the most famous comedy duos of the screen, dive into an amusing and wild adventure based on fists and karate which sees them travelling to Australia, Hong-Kong, Singapore, and Italy fighting against big villains and flirting with beautiful girls. Producer Ponti supplied a nice budget not only for the international locations, but also for the score which got performed by a symphonic orchestra. Digitmovies CD issue was possible thanks to the Savina estate which preserved in its archives two ½" master tapes with the complete recording session in stereo done on the September 3rd, 1973 at Ortophonic Recording Studios (today Forum Village) in Rome with Sergio Marcotulli as sound engineer. At that time not one note was issued on 33rpm or 45rpm and only today, after almost forty years, this cool score can see the light of day on record. Carlo Savina has written a pleasant and lively symphonic main theme in a beat style introduced in the main titles, a motif in an Americana, almost western style with solo performances of French horns, harpsichord, electric guitars together with the whole orchestra -- to sum up all the instruments typical of the action and adventure cinema. Savina reprises this brilliant motif and alternates it with mysterious and action music with an Eastern flavor and some lounge music. With this CD, Digitmovies want to rescue and preserve another OST from the Italian silver age as a sincere tribute to the music art of Carlo Savina.
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2012 release. Digitmovies present for the first time on CD Carlo Savina's complete original soundtrack, in full stereo, for the horror movie Ombre Roventi (aka "Shadow Of Illusion"). Directed in 1970 by Mario Caiano and starring William Berger, Daniela Giordano, Krista Nell, Antonio Cantafora, Giancarlo Bastianoni, Carol Lobravico, Enzo Maggio, and Mirella Pamphili. A girl named Gail (Giordano) who went to Cairo meets a group of sinister looking people who think that she is the reincarnation of the Goddess Isis. Gail will be exposed to a big danger when the evil priestess (Nell) of a pagan cult wants to use human sacrifices for winning the favor of Anubi, a divinity from the darkness. The priestess searches for her victims among a group of young beat people devoted to the practices of free love. For the production of Digitmovies' CD the label used the stereophonic master tapes of the original session that gave them a chance to release all the recorded material. Savina has written a nice "shake" dancefloor tune for brass and rhythm group called Shadow which is introduced in the main titles (it seems this track has been issued in mono on a C.A.M. promotional 45rpm single in the SPEC series) and then reprised in a fast version in the finale. The composer alternates ethnic music for archaic flutes, drums, and rattles, which recreated the atmosphere of the Egyptian capital city in which the plot is placed, with lounge kind music with jazz-blues performances of the trumpet accompanied by a small ensemble. The horror side of the story is underscored with suspense themes, whereas for the young beat people Carlo Savina has written two wild "shake" dancefloor themes and a hippie-style tune for choir. A soundtrack rarity rescued from the oblivion and preserved on CD from a movie which till today is impossible to find on DVD.
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2012 release. Digitmovies present for the first time on CD Carlo Savina's original soundtrack for the comedy movies: Veneri Al Sole (aka "Venus In The Sun"), directed in 1965 by Marino Girolami, and Veneri In Collegio (aka "Escándalo En El Internado"), directed in 1966 by Marino Girolami. Veneri Al Sole is divided in three segments: "Intrigo Al Mare" ("Plot At The Sea:) where a photo reporter defends a cute girl from continue attempts of stealing a mysterious suitcase; "Una Domenica A Fregene" ("A Sunday In Fregene") that is the love affair at the sea of a company executive with his mistress is ruined by the presence of his delivery man with his family, who does all his best to play up to his superior; "Come Conquistare Le Donne" ("How To Conquest Women"): an old Don Juan tries various ways to come his very shy son close to first experiences with women. In Veneri In Collegio, three journalists dressed like hydraulic workers, succeed in gaining admittance in a very monitored Swiss boarding school, with the purpose to take pictures one of the girls bound to marry a very rich Arab man. The things shall become more complicated cause the clandestine presence of journalists of a Paris scandal magazine and of two fake Arabs, really actors of a movie troupe that works in that zone. The tragic-comical adventures are scored by Carlo Savina with a whole pleasant series of funny themes that are alternated to nice dancefloor tunes with the typical style of those years. For this CD, Digitmovies have used the mono master tapes of the original sessions properly restored and remastered in digital.
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2008 release. Digitmovies presents the complete original soundtrack of Vivo Per La Tua Morte (Aka "A Long Ride From Hell") directed in 1968 by Alex Burks (real name Camillo Buzzoni) and starring Steve Reeves, also scenario writer and producer, and the mythic Hercules of the big screen. The music score is written by the noted Carlo Savina (1919-2002), one of the most famous orchestra conductors for the cinema and TV. Vivo Per La Tua Morte is issued for the first absolute time in complete form derived from the mono master tapes kept in the RCA vaults. Only two tracks were already issued in 1970 (with alternate titles) on the promotional compilation Savina's Western, but the orchestral score sees the light of the day only now. The movie and Digitmovies' CD opens with the theme song "Go West Young Men" performed by the voice of Don Powell accompanied by Cantori Moderni di Alessandroni. This lively theme is reprised by Savina with an epic version, performed by French horns and orchestra and the Peplum sound atmosphere, due the fact Steve "Hercules" Reeves is the protagonist is not at all casual. This OST of Savina has all the elements typical of the genre: suspense given by bass guitar, organ, and brass with the orchestra performance, a delicate and nostalgic love theme, lounge style western music, and saloon music. Due the short length of this OST, in the CD Digitmovies also added the complete OST by Carlo Savina from the Italian-Spanish co-production distributed in Spain by MGM, Il Misterioso Signor Van Eyck (aka "El Misterioso Señor Van Eyck") directed in 1965 by Agustín Navarro and starring Espartaco Santoni, Teresa Velázquez, Massimo Girotti, and Franco Fabrizi. This adventure movie tells about a group of people searching for a treasury sunk with the body of mysterious Charles Van Eyck, killed during a fight on a yacht by one of the sailors. The exotic location is exalted by the music themes by Carlo Savina, whose score is based on a recurrent, epic and adventurous main theme for organ and orchestra that recalls a little of the western atmosphere. The efforts to rescue the treasury in the deep of the sea are scored with fascinating musical sequences with magic and suspended colors given by instruments like harp, vibe, organ, celesta. Two treasures of the Italian silver age.
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2016 release. Digitmovies release the complete edition CD of Carlo Savina's original soundtrack for Contronatura ("The Unnaturals"). Carlo Savina (1919-2002) is an epic name in worldwide film music. He is a prolific composer as well as a conductor for many of his celebrated colleagues such as Rota, Rozsa, Sarde, and Lavagnino. For The Unnaturals he wrote and directed a dramatic OST for large orchestra and saxophone interventions, in which a Requiem religious theme emerges. From the tapes of the recording session we used every note recorded in mono of the dramatic score, and Digitmovies were also able to retrieve all the danceable 1920s melodies recorded in full stereo (in 1969 an easy listening album in stereo was planned, and then apparently deleted). Digitmovies' CD recovers and preserves an excellent OST by Savina, from one of the best films by Antonio Margheriti. Directed in 1969 by Antonio Margheriti, the film starred Helga Anders, Dominique Boschero, Claudio Camaso, Alan Collins, Joachim Fuchsberger, Marianne Koch, Marianne Leibl, Marco Morelli, and Giuliano Raffaelli. The rich Archibald Barret drives his car to Brighton where he plans to deliver some important documents to his lawyer, which will make him the permanent owner of his deceased cousin Richard Wright's assets. With him are his accountant Ben Taylor with his wife Vivian, and the farmer Alfred Singler with his lover Margareth. It is the middle of the night in pouring down rain and his car goes off the road. The five people take refuge in a chalet where they happen upon the owner Uriah and her mother Herta performing a séance, so they are invited to take part. At that moment the woman, who is already in a trance begins to evoke each of the guests' pasts and reveals their faults to everyone present: Alfred was discovered having an affair with Margareth which caused his wife's death; Vivian has an unnatural burning love for Richard's wife; Archibald poisons his cousin in order to take possession of his assets and lets Ben be found guilty of his death; and finally Ben, who is keeping quiet to hide a crime committed by his wife. Two innocent servants are sentenced to death for Richard's murder -- Uriah, to be precise, and her mother. They come back from the dead to take revenge by revealing the truth, which triggers a fight between the five people and ends in their deaths.
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2014 release. Digitmovies present a release of Carlo Savina's original soundtrack for Il Moralista. Only a 45rpm EP was recorded for this film, with the main score written by Franco Migliacci and Carlo Savina and performed by Fred Buscaglione. Nothing had been previously released from the instrumental OST, but thanks to the mono master tapes it was possible to release all of Savina's background music, which recalls the instrumental leitmotif and alternates between a dance tune and a romantic love theme. This CD contains the song from the opening credits (a fanfare in music hall style during the beginning and ending credits), and a single with a different intro. Directed by Giorgio Bianchi in 1959. Agostino is an impeccable and unintelligent secretary-general of OIMP who seems like a bureaucrat with morals so high it's almost absurd, but in reality, is a shady individual who attempts to play up to the influential president of the organization and woo his daughter. Although he is eventually found out, he takes revenge by pillorying the foibles of the president. According to some cinema historians, the screenwriters were inspired by the lawyer Agostino Greggi when choosing the name for the character played by Alberto Sordi. Greggi was an influential spokesperson for the most conservative Catholics of the Christian Democrats. He became famous for his campaigns to set high moral values (but unlike the character in the movie, he was honest). According to others, the character was based on a young Oscar Luigi Scalfaro (president of Italy from 1992-1999) who was accused of reprimanding a woman in public for taking off her jacket and exposing her shoulders. When the movie was released, it was prohibited to minors because of some scenes with excessive profanity. Nowadays it would not be considered excessive. This film was the debut for Maria Perschy (1938-2004), an attractive Austrian actress who died poor and alone.
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2015 release. On this reissue of the OST for Il Tuo Dolce Corpo Da Uccidere (1970), everything that was found on the mono master tapes from the original recording session was used. Carlo Savina composed a recurring main score with a mysterious feminine voice which develops into a shake and is alternated with calm passages and violent noir and bossa nova lounge music. The discography of Savina has grown in recent years; an artist of his caliber definitely deserves it. Il Tuo Dolce Corpo Da Uccidere was directed in 1970 by Alfonso Brescia and stars Giorgio Ardisson, Françoise Prévost, Orchidea De Santis, Eduardo Fajardo. Clive Ardington (Ardisson), is married to Diana (Prèvost), a Teutonic head of a factory who subjects him to every kind of humiliation. Clive contemplates killing his infuriating spouse. The occasion presents itself when he discovers that Dr. Adler (Fajardo), Diana's lover, is a Nazi criminal who has managed to elude all searches for him. He blackmails the doctor and forces him to kill Diana, butcher her and put her body parts in two suitcases. With the macabre cargo, Clive leaves for Tangiers where he intends to destroy the evidence in a tub of corrosive acid at a factory his wife owns. A series of setbacks delays his plan and Clive's nervous system breaks down. At the end, the doors of the criminal insane asylum await Clive, while Diana, who is not dead at all, begins a new life with Dr. Adler.
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2016 release. Digitmovies release for the first time on CD Carlo Savina's original soundtrack for the Peplum film L'ira Di Achille ("The Fury Of Achilles"). Carlo Savina (1919 -2002) is one of the biggest names in film music. He has a rich filmography as a composer to his name and is a famous conductor as well. For The Fury Of Achilles, Savina composed a symphonic score dominated by a heroic main theme for the protagonist, which the author reprises with a choir and alternates with battle themes, suspense, mystical atmospheres, and a romantic love theme. The influence of Miklós Rózsa, the great Hungarian musician, is evident in some passages (given his cooperation and friendship with Carlo Savina during Ben-Hur). For Digitmovies' CD, they used every note recorded during the original recording session which were preserved in excellent condition on the mono master tapes. The label also made a striking discovery: some tracks had choir voices even though there were also versions recorded without a choir. This allowed them to create a suite in stereo that they have included as a bonus track. Directed in 1962 by Marino Girolami, the film starred Gordon Mitchell, Eleonora Bianchi, Jacques Bergerac, Edith Peters Catalani, Romano Ghini, Fosco Giachetti, Manfred Freyberger, Cristina Gajoni, Alda Gallotti, Enio Girolami, Tina Gloriani, Gina Mascetti, Gloria Milland, Mario Petri, Laura Rocca, Roberto Risso, Giampaolo Rosmino, Erminio Spalla, Anita Todesco, Nando Tamberlani, Pietro Tordi, Piero Lulli, and Remo De Angelis. Under the walls of Troy, only Achilles and Patroclus can save the Achaean troops from the Trojan army's assault. When Achilles returns from Lyrnessus where he was slighted by Agamemnon on account of two beautiful slaves, he withdraws into his tent and refuses to fight. Patroclus vainly attempts to get him out by wearing Achilles's prodigious armor, but is discovered and killed by Hector, the bravest of the Trojans. His friend's sacrifice unleashes the fury of Achilles, who throws himself into the fray and kills Hector.
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2014 release. Digitmovies publishes, for the first time in its entirety on CD and in full stereo, Carlo Savina's original soundtrack for the movie Trinità E Sartana Figli Di... (aka "Trinity And Sartana Are Coming"). Directed in 1972 by Mario Siciliano and starring Robert Widmark (pseudonym of Alberto Dell'Acqua), Harry Baird (the muscular black actor who starred in 1963's Peplum Le Gladiatrici, the western directed by Lucio Fulci in 1976 I Quattro Dell'Apocalisse, and in the recurring role of Lt. Mark Bradley in the 1970 cult TV series UFO), Beatrice Pellh, Stelio Candelli, Dante Maggio, Ezio Marano, Lars Bloch, Domenico Maggio, Nello Pazzafini, Carla Mancini, Enzo Andronico, and Daniela Giordano. Sartana (Baird) and Trinity (Widmark) commit a bank robbery. They are friends and good robbers who always end up with giving away or losing all the loot. They take refuge in the small village of Quintana and must contend with the overbearing Barton (Candelli) who wants to take over the lands of the farmers. Against them is also the Mexican bandit El Tigre (Marano), from who they steal two million pesos in gold, but of course on leaving they will be empty handed again! For this CD, Digitmovies used every note preserved in the master tapes, in stereo from the original recording session. Carlo Savina has written a nice OST based on a recurring funny and light-hearted theme in a beat key, which is a good representation of the two hapless protagonists. The author alternates this motive with mysterious music, saloon style pieces, and a romantic love theme with a lounge flavor.
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