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CALIGULA by Paul Clemente
Hola!...
I recently acquired the only, and now long oop soundtrack LP to the film ''Caligula'' by Penthouse and I must admit I found all the music tracks very impressive and truly a pleasant late afternoon listening experience.
Too bad these music tracks, even though not all original compositions, will never receive the cd sound quality treatment they surely deserve.
On the other hand though one never knows, since the film has received some time now a complete and uncut DVD release at least in Europe's market as far as I know and which inludes as you probably know a star-studded cast.
To my suprise the soundtrack includes music tracks by a composer named Paul Clemente who according to SC's database seems to be a pseudonym for the one and only Bruno... Mr. Bruno Nicolai himself!
The name Bruno Nicolai is not credited anywhere on the LP by the way.
Does anyone know the reason why Nicolai has been credited with a pseudonym for his music in ''Caligula' instead of his real name?
Perhaps the reasons were of personal or legal nature.
Has this been done for other film compositions of his as well?
I wonder if this used to be or still is a common practice among film music composers and music composers in general to be credited for their work under pseudonyms.
Can you think of any other film composers who have been credited with pseudonyms for their film score compositions instead of their true identity and in what films this has occurred?
If I'm not mistaken, Jerry Goldsmith was credited with the pseudonym Michael Hennagin in some of his early music compositions.
serifiot, March 9, 2007; 6:50 PM
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If you ever happened to see the film, you'd surely understand why Bruno Nicolai didn't want his
name to be featured in the credits... ;-)
PS: Did you move to Spain, seri? Or is this just an insider's hint, regarding Mujeres?
coma, March 9, 2007; 8:15 PM
Hi David,
Well to be frank, I did picture the poor guy entering his 'Italian mansion' and having his wife wait on him with revealing lingerie holding a huge wooden club to bang his head in if he ever did dare to use his real name but that is besides the point.
Yes, I have seen the film... on numerous frame by frame occassions!
Not a bad movie...
As far as the other mystery, I certainly have been doing my extended frustrating research on Mujeres unfortunately with no luck. I even got a hold of this hilarious film which has been quite a while since I last saw it. The first thing I did was to go to the end credits to see if the soundtrack was listed anywhere. It wasn't.
The idea of moving to Spain is certainly very tempting indeed!
serifiot, March 9, 2007; 8:50 PM
Navajo Joe (Ennio Morricone as Leo Nichols)
victoravalentine, March 10, 2007; 3:52 PM
Rollerboy, Stelvio Cipriani as Steve Powder.
- I hope Digitmovies will do Caligula one day on CD. The score is great. Indeed, many people were not so happy to have their name in that film afterwards. Sir John Gielgud was one of them.
But a film produced by Penthouse, it should ring a bell... The film is a cult movie now and it is not a bad film at all.
s.tonkens, March 11, 2007; 7:23 AM
Hello everyone.
In fact, the movie was made as a "normal" picture, without extra gore and porn scenes. But producers thougt it was too "light". And so they filmed extra gore et porn scenes. McDowell, Gielgud and others were not told of that. So, when the re-edited movie came out, imagine what they thhought ! And if you take a close look, you'll notice that none of those great actors appear in those extra scenes. Perhaps it's the same story for Nicolai. He composed his music and then the whole picture appeared... I suppose he wanted to use a pseudonym after that.
That's italian cinema !
coreymouth, August 22, 2011; 5:42 AM
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