Dubbed in Rome

One of the really wonderful things about the DVD and Blu-ray era is the sheer number of films has been released – many of which are rare and largely forgotten European films that have been given new life after years of complete obscurity. As an enthusiast of the English dubbing scene in Rome, though, I am highly concerned with rescuing not only the films themselves from obscurity, but also the English dub tracks. Unfortunately, that doesn’t always happen as there’s quite a lot of dubbing snobbery going on, with several companies choosing to not include the English dub tracks on their releases. One of the worst offenders is definitely Kino Lorber, who, for example, omitted the English dubs of all the films in their Lina Wertmüller Collection, as well as leaving out the excellent English dub track on their release of Francesco Rosi’s Illustrious Corpses (1976). In the case of the latter, however, the totally wretched, overly dark and badly color-timed transfer makes it a definite no