Subj : The Siege of the Alcazar (1940)
To   : All
From : Arelor
Date : Tue Feb 01 2022 20:02:08

  Re: The Siege of the Alcazar (1940)
  By: Arelor to All on Tue Feb 01 2022 07:46 pm

Some anecdotal data regarding this film:

I actually hunted it down because, being an italian movie, this film was chased down,
cut, censored and mutilated in multiple ways after the Italians bit the dust in WWII.
If the original movie was two hours long, the "fixed" and "de-fascisted" version
they released after the war lacked half an hour.

My father happened to watch it as a kid because he was in a fascist Spanish school in
which they had a great collection of movies such as this one. When Franco's regime was
displaced, the school was assigned a communist manager, and the first thing this
manager did was to get rid of all the fascist movies. As far as I can tell, this
happened everywhere else, so it seems uncut, uncensored copies of this movie were hard
to find for a long while.

My father telling me about this movie and about its copies being ditched from his
school's collection prompted me to find it, so I did. And now, you have a review :-)



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