Damon and Pythias (film)

Damon and Pythias

Directed by	Curtis Bernhardt
Produced by	Sam Jaffe (associate producer) Samuel Marx (associate producer)
Written by	Samuel Marx (story) Samuel Marx (screenplay) Franco Riganti (screenplay) Paola Ojetti/Franco Riganti (dialogue: Italian version) Bridget Boland (dialogue: English version)
Music by	Angelo Francesco Lavagnino
Cinematography	Aldo Tonti
Edited by	Niccolò Lazzari
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release dates	1962 (1962)
Running time	101 minutes (Italy) 99 minutes (U.S.)
Country	Italy United States
Language	English

Il tiranno di Siracusa (English Release Title: Damon and Pythias) is a 1962 Italian/American film directed by Curtis Bernhardt. The film is based on the Greek legend of Damon and Pythias, and set during the reign of Dionysius I of Syracuse (432-367 BC).

Cast

Guy Williams as Damon
Don Burnett as Pythias
Ilaria Occhini as Nerissa
Liana Orfei as Adriana
Marina Berti as Mereka - Nerissa's Friend
Arnoldo Foà as Dionysius the Tyrant
Carlo Giustini as Cariso
Aldo Silvani as Patriarch
Andrea Bosic as Arcanos
Franco Fantasia as Rumius the Fencing Master
Lawrence Montaigne as Flute Player
Enrico Glori as Nikos
Gianni Bonagura as Philemon
Carolyn De Fonseca as Chloe

Reception

The film made a profit of $6,000.^[1]

Release

The international distribution was taken over by MGM.^[2]

Biography

Hughes, Howard (2011). Cinema Italiano - The Complete Guide From Classics To Cult. London - New York: I.B.Tauris. ISBN 978-1-84885-608-0.

References

↑ The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study .
↑ Hughes, p.53

External links

Damon and Pythias at the Internet Movie Database
Damon and Pythias is available for free download at the Internet Archive

Films directed by Curtis Bernhardt

Orphan of Lowood (1926)
The Prince of Rogues (1928)
The Last Fort (1929)
The Woman One Longs For (1929)
The Man Who Murdered (1931)
The Rebel (1932)
The Tunnel (1933)
The Tunnel (1933)
L'Or dans la rue (1935)
The Beloved Vagabond (1936)
Night in December (1940)
My Love Came Back (1940)
Lady with Red Hair (1940)
Million Dollar Baby (1941)
Juke Girl (1942)
Happy Go Lucky (1943)
Conflict (1945)
My Reputation (1946)
Devotion (1946)
A Stolen Life (1946)
Possessed (1947)
High Wall (1947)
The Doctor and the Girl (1949)
Payment on Demand (1951)
Sirocco (1951)
The Blue Veil (1951)
The Merry Widow (1952)
Miss Sadie Thompson (1953)
Beau Brummell (1954)
Interrupted Melody (1955)
Gaby (1956)
Damon and Pythias (1962)
Kisses for My President (1964)

Works by Jon Cleary

Novels

1940s	You Can't See 'Round Corners (1947) The Long Shadow (1949)

1950s	Just Let Me Be (1950) The Sundowners (1952) The Climate of Courage (1954) Justin Bayard (1955) The Green Helmet (1957) Back of Sunset (1959) Strike Me Lucky (1959)

1960s	North from Thursday (1960) The Country of Marriage (1962) Forests of the Night (1963) A Flight of Chariots (1963) The Fall of an Eagle (1965) The High Commissioner (1966) The Pulse of Danger (1966) The Long Pursuit (1967) Season of Doubt (1968) Remember Jack Hoxie (1969)

1970s	Helga's Web (1970) Mask of the Andes (1971) Man's Estate (1972) Ransom (1973) Peter's Pence (1974) The Safe House (1975) A Sound of Lightning (1976) High Road to China (1977) Vortex (1978) The Beaufort Sisters (1979)

1980s	A Very Private War (1980) The Faraway Drums (1981) The Golden Sabre (1981) Spearfield's Daughter (1982) The Phoenix Tree (1984) The City of Fading Light (1985) Dragons at the Party (1987) Now and Then, Amen (1988) Babylon South (1989)

1990s	You, the Jury (1990) (reprint of 1950 Just Let Me Be) Murder Song (1990) Pride's Harvest (1991) Dark Summer (1992) Bleak Spring (1993) Autumn Maze (1994) Winter Chill (1995) Endpeace (1996) A Different Turf (1997) Five Ring Circus (1998) Dilemma (1999)

2000s	Bear Pit (2000) Yesterday's Shadow (2001) The Easy Sin (2002) Degrees of Connection (2003) Miss Ambar Regrets (2004) Morning's Gone (2006) Four-Cornered Circle (2007)

Films and TV

Just Let Me Be (1957) (TV)
Dust in the Sun (1958)
The Siege of Pinchgut (1959)
The Sundowners (1960)
The Green Helmet (1961)
Bus Stop (1961) (TV) (2 eps)
Damon and Pythias (1962)
The Diamond Smugglers (1964)
You Can't See 'Round Corners (1967) (TV)
Nobody Runs Forever (The High Commissioner) (1968)
You Can't See 'round Corners (1969)
Sidecar Racers (1975)
High Road to China (1983)
Spearfield's Daughter (1986) (mini series)

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