The sacrificial ceremony scene from CARTHAGE IN FLAMES (1960)
This scene is way too brief in the gargantuan movie. I don't know if that's Anne Haywood being help up, sans clothes, or a body double. The identity of the actor who played the sacrificer is unknown. Both are basically nude. Quite daring for 1960. I don't know if Anne's voice was used for the English dub. It's my favourite scene from this epic. It's really spectacular but unfortunately it's short. They should have stretched this scene for all its worth (big sets and all). Oh well...
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I saw this movie in the cinema when it first came out. I was about ten years old and shocked to see a naked woman in a movie. I love Carthage in Flames. The production is so large scale. As an adult I saw an Italian VHS tape which had a different ending. Ilaria Occhini is waiting on the ship for Jose Suarez who has died on the battlefield. In the version out on DVD he joins her at the end.
I have not seen this movie for many years.
Naturally I would love to see it again, but it does not seem to be available for streaming on either Amazon Prime Video or YouTube.
Any suggestions for viewing it would be most appreciated. Thanks.
I found it on YouTube, but only in French. Careful, there are plenty of scam YT accounts that try to lure you in by claiming to have this title.
Thanks Tim:
My French is only B+, but I will give it try.
Best Regards.
This scene is inspired the Moloch sequence inthe great classic CABIRIA. Also drawing on CABIRIA are the dread Yuri Men and their work in opening scene of TRIUMPH OF MACISTE
I believe that Anne Heywood was the actress in the opening part of the sacrifice scene, but once the guy grabs her and exposes her boobs, that it is a body double. The body double had larger boobs than Heywood and you do not see her face and her boobs at the same time. Still a great scene (saw it for the first time when I was 13) and unusual for its time - 15 years later it would have been no big deal
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