| Digitmovies releases for the very first time on CD, as volume
nine of the series dedicated to the Italian Police movies, the
complete OST in full stereo by Franco Campanino from the movie
Napoli Si Ribella directed in 1977 by Michele Massimo Tarantini
and starring Luc Merenda, Enzo Cannavale, Claudio Gora, Sonia
Viviani, Adolfo Lastretti, Marianne Comtel.
The movie tells the story of commissioner Dario Mauri (Merenda)
who always fights actively against crime.
He must face the slimy Domenico Laurenzi (Lastretti), who
is always defended by smart lawyer Cerullo (Gora) and who
with his criminal acts keeps under control a whole city and
is never scared by the law.
At any risk commissioner Mauri wants to obstruct the steadily
growing power of the delinquent and he is helped in his exploits
by the good marshal Capece (Cannavale) so that at the end,
after murders and sensational developments, thanks to the
policeman justice will triumph.
The OST has been written by Franco Campanino, a musician
who has composed scores for the cinema like I Guappi and L'Ambizioso
by Pasquale Squitieri, Lettomania by Vincenzo Rigo, Stringimi
Forte Papà and L'Insegnante Viene A Casa by Michele
M. Tarantini.
In 1977 Cinevox Record had issued a 33 rpm vinyl album with
nine tracks in stereo.
For our new CD we have used the stereo master of the original
album and we have discovered in the complete master tapes
four alternate takes in stereo.
Franco Campanino has composed an OST that musically perfectly
describes all the facts told in the movie: On the one hand
there are adrenaline like action themes for commissioner Mauri
like the main theme Napoli Si Ribella with its cool disco
funky sound, with latin rhythmics and with some Italian flavour
as to the melodic development (Tr. 1), for chases and manhunt
scenes (Tr. 3, Tr. 7, Tr. 8), on the other hand a nostalgic
theme with a typical Italian flavour for the unlucky character
of Rosa (Viviani), the nightclub showgirl who will be found
on the ground of a yard towards the end of the movie (Tr.
2, Tr. 6, Tr. 9).
The original album program is followed by the three film versions
of Napoli Si Ribella, Rapina Alla Banca, Inseguimento (Tr.
10, Tr. 12, Tr. 13) and the alternate take of Disegni Di Bambina
(Tr. 11), a piano solo of the Tema Di Rosa discovered in the
session tapes. |