The Italian film industry released several historical films in the early sound era, such as the big-budget "Scipione l'Africano" ("Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal") in 1937. In 1949, the postwar Italian film industry remade "Fabiola" (which had been previously filmed twice in the silent era). The film was released in the United Kingdom and in the United States in 1951 in an edited, English-dubbed version. "Fabiola" was an Italian-French co-production like the following films "The Last Days of Pompeii" (1950) and "Messalina" (1951).