Damon and Pythias (film)

Damon and Pythias
Directed by	Curtis Bernhardt
Produced by	Sam Jaffe (associate producer) Samuel Marx (associate producer) Franco Riganti[citation needed] (producer) (uncredited)
Written by	Samuel Marx (story) Samuel Marx (screenplay) & Franco Riganti (screenplay) Paola Ojetti (dialogue: Italian version) & Franco Riganti (dialogue: Italian version) Bridget Boland (dialogue: english version) & Barry Oringer (dialogue: english version)
Starring	See below
Music by	Angelo Francesco Lavagnino
Cinematography	Aldo Tonti
Editing by	Niccolò Lazzari
Running time	99 minutes (USA) 101 minutes (Italy)
Country	Italy, USA
Language	English

Damon and Pythias (Italian: Il tiranno di Siracusa) is a 1962 Italian / American film directed by Curtis Bernhardt. The film is based on the Greek legend, and set during the reign of Dionysius I of Syracuse (432-367 BC).

Plot summary

Cast

• Guy Williams as Damon
• Don Burnett as Pythias
• Ilaria Occhini as Nerissa
• Liana Orfei as Adriana
• Marina Berti as Mereka - Nerissa's Friend
• Arnoldo Foà as Dionysius the Tyrant
• Carlo Giustini as Cariso
• Aldo Silvani as Patriarch
• Andrea Bosic as Arcanos
• Maurizio Baldoni as Dionysius the Younger
• Franco Fantasia as Rumius the Fencing Master
• Osvaldo Ruggieri as Demetrius - Nerissa's Brother
• Lawrence Montaigne as Flute Player
• Enrico Glori as Nikos
• Gianni Bonagura as Philemon
• Vittorio Bonos as Digenis
• Giovanna Maculani as Hermione
• Carlo Rizzo as Libia
• Enzo Fiermonte
• Tiberio Mitri
• Franco Ressel
• Tiberio Murgia
• Luigi Bonos
• Maurizio Bedoni
• Giovanni Bagliori
• Carolyn De Fonseca as Chloe
• Carla Bonavera
• Enrico Salvatore

Soundtrack

See also

• List of historical drama films

External links

• Damon and Pythias at the Internet Movie Database
• Damon and Pythias is available for free download at the Internet Archive [more]