Musings!

Gordon Scott and Moira Orfei in HERO OF BABYLON (1963)

In my eternal quest in finding a decent copy of this fun movie, and which I have over a dozen different copies to prove this, I finally found one that is worthwhile. I bought the Spanish DVD and the image is excellent. Of course, it's DVD resolution but it has no issues with it, aside from the fact that it doesn't have an English audio. It's odd that finding a decent print is so difficult for this movie (well, a lot of PEPLUM movies actually...). One version is too dark. Another is too fuzzy. The German copy I have is almost identical to this one but the image is fuzzy and there's pixelation. The image quality of a recent French copy is too soft. So, I can positively state that the best copy is this one. Of course, a HD version would be better but it's not yet available. I will do a Recent Acquisition post soon and I'll show the DVD. As for the film, it's solid. Moira Orfei almost steals the movie from stoic Gordon with her colourful performance. I like her but it seems few people out there do. I rarely hear anyone talk about her even if she was a major PEPLUM star.