The Colossus of Rhodes (film)

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The Colossus of Rhodes (Italian: Il Colosso di Rodi) is a 1961 peplum film co-written and directed by Sergio Leone, in his feature directorial debut. Starring Rory Calhoun and Lea Massari, it is a fictional account of the island of Rhodes during its classical period in the late 3rd-century BCE before coming under Roman control, using the Colossus of Rhodes as a backdrop for the story of a war hero who becomes involved in two different plots to overthrow a tyrannical king: one by Rhodian patriots and the other by Phoenician agents. The film was Leone's first work as a credited director, he had previously been an uncredited replacement director on The Last Days of Pompeii (1959) after the original director fell ill. It is perhaps the least known of the seven films he officially directed, and is the only one without an Ennio Morricone score.

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