Tuesday, October 4, 2022

STAR CINE ROMAN

Star Ciné Roman was a French 'fotonovela' with different movies in each issue. Many of them were PEPLUM titles. Here's a 6 of them. Many of these fotonovelas were published when the movie was released but for others, including the two first, they were published years after the two movies were released. Some of the titles on the cover are totally different than the actual titles of the movies.



SAMSON AND DELILAH starring Victor Mature and Hedy Lamarr



HELEN OF TROY starring Rossana Podesta



THE PHARAOHS' WOMAN starring Linda Cristal and Pierre Brice



THE LAND OF THE PHARAOHS starring Jack Hawkins and Joan Collins



THE GIANTS OF THESSALY starring Ziva Rodann, Alberto Farnese, Luciano Marin and Cathia Caro



THE BACCHANTES starring Taina Elg, Raf Mattioli and Alessandra Panaro

2 comments:

  1. AnonymousOctober 5, 2022 at 1:23 AM

    Just to note, the French fotonovela of "The Bacchantes" appears to be titled "Les Amours de Thebes" - the Loves of Thebes. Perhaps that was also the alternative title to the French film version "Les Bacchantes".
    PS. I enjoy very much your inclusion of non-english material. We are a worldwide Peplum-enthusiast community !

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  2. AnonymousMay 11, 2023 at 7:09 AM


    I cringe whenever I see peplum film titles using the Greek Sigma (Σ) incorrectly for the letter E (eg. HΣLΣN for HELEN).

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