Helen Of Troy
1956, 116 minutes, Rated M
Arrows rain death. Soldiers clamber up stone walls. Swords clang, fires rage. Yet the waves of combatants storming Troy are repelled. To defeat the undefeatable ultimately requires brains more than brawn. So feigning retreat the Greeks offer a gift: a mammoth wooden horse secretly housing their fighting men.
Homer's Illiad surges to the screen in Helen Of Troy, from the '50s heyday of big-screen spectaculars. Robert Wise (Westside Story, The Sound Of Music) directs this lavish epic capturing some 30,000 people on screen at a then huge cost of $6 million. Among the 30,000: Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Brigette Bardot before her sex-symbol renown, and as the lovers at the conflict's center, Rossana Podesta (Sodom and gomorrah) and Jack Sernas (La Dolce Vita).
- Director:
- Robert Wise [18],
- Starring:
- Cedric Hardwicke [9], Torin Thatcher [6], Stanley Baker [5], Robert Douglas [3], Nora Swinburne [1], Rossana Podesta [1], Niall MacGinnis [2], Brigitte Bardot [11], Jack Sernas [1],
- Screen Formats:
- Widescreen 2.35:1
- Subtitles:
- Arabic , Dutch , English , French , German , Italian , Spanish
- Language and Sound:
- English 5.1 Dolby Digital
French Mono
German Mono
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