Sophia Loren and Anthony Quinn in ATTILA (1954)
This movie was released in Italy in December 1954. Two months prior, ULYSSES (1954) was released in October. Both films starred Anthony Quinn, among others, and both films were produced by Carlo Ponti and Dino De Laurentiis. Carlo Ponti would marry Sophia Loren twice in bizarre circumstances that would take too long to explain so here's a link. Ponti met Loren when she was 16 at a beauty contest. She hated making the movie. Mainly for a scene with a sandwich Anthony Quinn had to eat in a scene. I like this film. It's directed by Pietro Francisci so there's a certain enthusiasm in it that's characteristic of his films and not in other PEPLUM productions. But the movie is way too short. It's runtime is officially at 80 minutes but all my prints I have, including the rare English print, is 76 minutes long (probably due to the PAL conversion thingy...). It should have been fleshed out more. Sophia eventually became fluent in English but the English dub doesn't use her voice (but Quinn's voice is there) which make watching it odd since her voice when she speaks English is so distinctive. It might be the reason why the English dub has never been released officially on DVD or Blu-ray.