Note: The main purpose of this page, at the moment, is to help English-speakers in North America find copies of the Don Camillo movies on video (or, if and when the time ever comes, on DVD). But if you have current information on buying copies of these films in other parts of the world and would like to share it, please email it to me, and I will be happy to make a page for my non-North American readers.

The Fernandel film(s) in English: Okay, if you are looking for the Fernandel Don Camillo films in English, I must first break the bad news that only one of these movies, the first in the series, was ever put into English. And here's worse news (are you sitting down?): it was (*gulp*) dubbed, not subtitled. However, it is, I'm happy to say, available on video in NTSC format (i.e., playable in the US and Canada). Here are three sources that claim to have it as of this writing (early summer, 2002):

• Videoflicks lists the video in its online catalog, on this page. Cost is $26.99 plus shipping; ships in US only.

• 1-World Festival of Foreign Films also advertises the film in NTSC format, on this page. But they're charging $34.95 before shipping!

• The German Language Video Center in Indianapolis, IN, is another, perhaps unlikely source for the English-dubbed video, for $29.95. Click here to order.

But I want all 5 films! And so did I! It didn't matter to me that a complete set would have to be in some foreign (to me) language without subtitles; I still figured I could watch and follow the basic stories. But I didn't want to buy videos from Europe, pay exorbitant shipping fees, and then have to pay another $40 per tape to have them transcoded from PAL to NTSC format so I could play them on my VCR. So...

I contacted the folks at the French Video Club (website FranceVision.com) in Bethesda, MD. They have copies of all 5 of the Fernandel Don Camillo films available for rental on NTSC videos (in un-subtitled French), so I thought maybe they could help me buy copies... and they did! But this was 1998, so I have no idea whether they still can. Your best bet is to email them. Good luck!

Films and TV programs other than the Fernandel films? At this time, I don't know of any others that are currently available commercially. The BBC say they have lost track of their 1980 Don Camillo TV show, so I've given up hope of seeing it released on video. But a diligent North American fan might be able to get copies of the following, through other means:

• The 1972 Italian film Don Camillo e i giovani d'oggi (starring Gastone Moschin) was probably never released on video, but I'm told that it is sometimes shown (in a French-dubbed version, under the title Don Camillo et les contestataires) on French-Canadian TV, especially around times of year when the Fernandel films are shown. Perhaps a friend in Quebec could tape it for you.

• Comic Western star Terence Hill's 1983 version, Don Camillo, was released on video in several different markets, but I think (1) all of them were European (hence, the videos are in PAL format, unplayable in North America), and (2) most of the issues are now out of print. However, if you can pick up a copy on the second-hand market (try eBay, or this fan site), you will at least be able to understand it: the Italian-made production was shot in English!

DVD: Finally, to the best of my knowledge, the English-dubbed first movie in the Don Camillo series is not available on DVD. Nor are any Don Camillo films, in any language, available in Region 1- encoded DVD (i.e., playable in North America). There are European Don Camillo DVDs, but they are all Region 2, and none that I'm aware of has an English- subtitled or dubbed track.