Carlo Rustichelli


Carlo Rustichelli was an Italian film composer whose career spanned the 1940s to about 1990. His prolific output included about 250 film compositions, as well as arrangements for other films, and music for television.

Life

Born in Carpi, Emilia-Romagna to a family of music lovers, he gained a diploma in piano at the Conservatorio Giovanni Battista Martini in Bologna, going on to Rome where he studied composition at the Santa Cecilia Academy.
He had a wife, a son, and a daughter.

Career

He met Federico Fellini in post-war Rome, and probably through him met Pietro Germi, for whom he composed his first major film score for Gioventù perduta, and with whom he was most associated. He composed music for many Germi films in the 1940s, 50s and 60s.
In 1972 he was commissioned by Billy Wilder to compose the music for Avanti!.

Selected filmography

The Lion of Amalfi The Crossroads Lorenzaccio The Counterfeiters The Enemy The Blind Woman of Sorrento The Bandit of Tacca Del Lupo The Legend of the Piave Prisoner in the Tower of Fire Captain Phantom Mid-Century Loves Laugh! Laugh! Laugh! Cardinal Lambertini Disowned Desperate Farewell The Two Friends Rommel's Treasure They Stole a Tram The Railroad Man Fathers and Sons A Man of Straw The Day the Sky Exploded The Facts of Murder You're on Your Own Hannibal The Giants of Thessaly Minotaur, the Wild Beast of Crete Some Like It Cold Bed In Three Squares Long Night in 1943 Love in Rome Divorce Italian Style The Thief of Baghdad Queen of the Nile Creole Venus The Four Days of Naples La commare secca My son, the hero Ro.Go.Pa.G. The Whip and the Body The Lion of St. Mark Hercules vs. Moloch La ragazza di Bube Coriolanus: Hero without a Country The Organizer Seduced and Abandoned Giants of Rome Terror of the Steppes Desert Raiders Samson vs. the Giant King The Betrothed '' Blood and Black Lace Buffalo Bill, Hero of the Far West The Long Hair of Death Sandokan to the Rescue Sandokan Against the Leopard of Sarawak The Adventurer of Tortuga Made in Italy Ringo's Big Night The Birds, the Bees and the Italians Me, Me, Me... and the Others Seasons of Our Love For Love and Gold No Diamonds for Ursula Golden Chameleon Kill, Baby, Kill Kill or Be Killed Golden Chameleon God Forgives... I Don't! One Dollar Too Many Train for Durango A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die The Ruthless Four Seven Men and One Brain Ace High The Odyssey Satyricon The Battle of El Alamein Blow Hot, Blow Cold Boot Hill Transplant Mafia Connection Brancaleone at the Crusades A Pocketful of Chestnuts A Sword for Brando Bubù In the Name of the Italian People Sergeant Klems The Call of the Wild Alfredo, Alfredo Avanti! We Want the Colonels Dirty Weekend Gang War in Milan The Black Hand Little Funny Guy White Fang Challenge to White Fang White Fang to the Rescue Salvo D'Acquisto Somewhere Beyond Love City Under Siege Cormack of the Mounties Il gatto mammone My Friends '' A Woman at Her Window Le Gang Man in a Hurry Loggerheads The New Beaujolais Wine Has Arrived... )Safari Rally Assassination on the Tiber Forest of Love All My Friends Part 2 Heads I Win, Tails You Lose Blade Master