Dubbed in Rome

One of the really great advantages of the DVD and Blu-ray era is the possibility of presenting films with different language options, and this is certainly essential for Italian cinema, whose practice of shooting without live sound and extensive use of actors of different nationalities makes it challenging to say which, if any, language version could be considered the definitive one. It’s therefore a good thing that movie fans have the choice of watching their giallo, peplum, western, crime and Eurospy movies in either English or Italian. Unfortunately, the same is not true of the more prestigious Italian films, since a great many “serious” movie fans turn their noses up at the concept of dubbing and only want to watch films in their original language – thereby ignoring the fact that classic Italian movies were all completely post-synchronized from scratch, and so they’re still watching a dubbed film, only in Italian rather than English. Nevertheless, it has long been a trend now