Riccardo Freda's "Sins of Rome" was filmed in 1953 and released by RKO in an edited, English-dubbed version the following year. Unlike "Quo Vadis", there were no American actors or production crew. The Anthony Quinn film "Attila" (directed by Pietro Francisci in 1954), the Kirk Douglas epic "Ulysses" (co-directed by an uncredited Mario Bava in 1954) and "Helen of Troy" (directed by Robert Wise with Sergio Leone as an uncredited second unit director in 1955) were the first of the big peplum films of the 1950s. Riccardo Freda directed another peplum, "Theodora, Slave Empress" in 1954, starring his wife Gianna Maria Canale. Howard Hawks directed his "Land of the Pharaohs" (starring Joan Collins) in Italy and Egypt in 1955. Robert Rossen made his film "Alexander the Great" in Egypt in 1956, with a music score by famed Italian composer Mario Nascimbene.