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Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790777870
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0790777878
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 27, 2004
Running Time: 121 minutes
Sales Rank: 17214
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: January 26, 1956
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
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 30000 people on screen at a then huge cost of $6 million.Running Time: 118 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 085392462827
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Pomp and circumstance
Warner Bros.' Cinemascope rendition of the events of the Trojan War has been pretty much forgotten now, thanks in large part to its cast of mostly unknowns: though Sir Cedric Hardwicke is here (inevitably), the rest of the cast was pretty unknown to movie audiences then as it still is today. The Italian actress Rossana Podestá is Helen, and the French actor Jack (Jacques) Sernas is her lover Paris, who somehow is turned into the movie's hero. Both Podestá and Sernas were probably chosen for the ... Read More
Rating: - Ordered as a gift, did not view
Received the DVD very promptly but did not view, as it was a gift to a friend
Rating: - "The face that launched a thousand ships."
Of all the great stories handed down through the ages, few can equal Homer's Iliad - a towering epic of warrior heroes, squabbling gods, and anger that destroyed nations...
This is the source for Robert Wise's film... All the elements of a magnificent spectacle exist in Homer's work - a lavish and decadent court life, the tension of the quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon, the most beautiful woman in Greece, and a drama of love and seduction...
Thousands of weapons are ... Read More
Rating:  - script full of silliness
The script of "Helen of Troy" is so full of improbable silliness and stilted dialogue it is matched only by the wooden acting that in the 50s seemed a requirement of Hollywood epics. In the end it spoils the spectacular sets and occasionally effective cinematography. The sack of Troy sequence at the end of the movie almost redeems it, and I am almost tempted to raise my rating for that alone. But then I remember the hash they made of the actual seige, with medieval seige engines and uninspired choreography. ... Read More
Rating: - Saga Of The Face That Launched A Thousand Ships
The Robert Wise 1956 production of "Helen of Troy", despite its many great qualities in regard to production and historical recreation could never be accused of following religiously its main literary source in Homer's Iliad. That said, by no means could it be said to detract from it still being a top flight entry in the 1950's cycle of big screen epics based around historical events. Being a passionate reader of all things to do with ancient Troy I still find this film, despite its many critics, to be first class ... Read More
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