Legend of the Lost Brazzi, near death, but not near the desert almost like a tone poem. death enough that he doesn’t muster You can feel the heat beating down TIMBUKTU enough energy to stab Wayne in the in the music, feel the shifting of the “Two men and a dame.” That’s about back with a knife. Loren does not take sands, feel the passion of two men in it. Legend Of The Lost was produced kindly to this, and she plugs Brazzi love with the same woman – by John Wayne’s Batjac Productions, with enough lead to fill fifty-three pen - Lavagnino’s melodies are sinuous and starred the Duke and Rosanno cils. Happily, a caravan comes by and sensual. Brazzi as the two men. The dame and the day is saved and all’s well was Sophia Loren, and the fourth that ends well and everyone has got - The tapes for Legend Of The Lost character was the Sahara desert. It’s ten their just desserts in the desert. are long lost but thankfully about an odd film, both intimate (basically thirty-two of the film’s forty minutes of a three-character drama) and epic The film was not a hit with audiences music was found in Italy and it is (the Sahara) – a tale of treasure, lust, or critics, but it’s actually a very en - those thirty-two minutes we present and sand, not necessarily in that tertaining film, with Duke his usual here. Even though we’d love to say order. Wayne plays a guide in hock heroic self, Loren looking luscious it’s the complete score, we figured up to his ears to the police captain in whether traipsing in the sand or thirty-two minutes is better than no Timbuktu, Loren plays a woman who bathing by moonlight, and Brazzi minutes, especially of primo Lavagnino. has been known to pick pockets and feeling tortured and tormented. Missing were the film’s main title, pick up men, and Brazzi plays a man Henry Hathaway, with whom Wayne which we’ve taken from the DVD, and in search of his long-lost father, who, did many films, directed, and the film even though we had the film’s final in search of a Lost City has presum - was gorgeously photographed by the cue in its entirety it was missing the ably perished in the desert. Oh, and brilliant Jack Cardiff in Technirama choral overlay, so we’ve included a bit the treasure – there’s always the and Technicolor. of that, also from the DVD. treasure – that the long-lost father was in search of. From there, the The score was by Italy’s Angelo So, get a nice, cool drink, put on your usual ensues – they cross the Francesco Lavagnino. Lavagnino was pith helmet, and prepare to be trans - desert, tensions between the three one of Italy’s finest film composers ported to Timbuktu and the Sahara, a mount, they sweat, Loren bathes, and certainly one of its most prolific, Lost City and found treasure, and they sweat some more, they find the beginning his career in 1948. His epic romance between two men and Lost City, they find skeletons of sev - voice was unique – one could always a dame. eral people including Brazzi’s long- tell a Lavagnino score immediately. lost father, and learn some His music was exotic and melodic — Bruce Kimmel revelations about the long-lost father and unique. Some of his best work that do not please Brazzi. They also includes the films The Naked Maja, find the treasure – there’s always the The Last Days of Pompeii, The treasure – and plenty of it. Of course, Colossus of Rhodes, Esther and the both men are desirous of not only the King, Imperial Venus, Orson Welles’ treasure, but of the beautiful Loren, Chimes at Midnight , and tons of but when she rebuffs Brazzi’s ad - sword-and-sandal films, Italian sci-fi, vances, he leaves with the treasure, and spaghetti westerns. Standing tall the donkeys, and the water. Wayne among his scores is Legend Of The and Loren set out to try and catch up Lost. His music for the film is dreamy, with him; they find love while almost mysterious, romantic, and captures dying of thirst, and eventually find the moods of the nights and days of