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List Price: $19.98 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 11959
Released: April 27, 2004 |
| Our Price: $4.91 |
| Used Price: $3.05 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
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.
Helen of Troy Reviews:
Jack Sernas whom you may have never seen 
2009-09-21 - Jacques Sernas was featured in LA DOLCE VITA. His looks stood out as he was very handsome. I saw him in person in Hollywood at a fund raiser for the widow of the owner of the Mocambo. Frank Sinatra was performing that night.
Jack was with his wife?
Anyway, I had missed the theatrical run of HELEN OF TROY. Rossana Podesta was the female lead and Brigitte Bardot had a small part in the beginning.
This was made in the '50's or '60's. It cannot compare with the new TROY starring Brad Pitt. But the actions scenes are spectacular. No computerized imaging (CPI) in those days. Real cast members and hundreds in the battle scenes. Jack is extremely handsone as is Rossana.
It is truly a collectible and one you can watch over and over. Beautiful transfer. I bought it on Amazon too. Doubtful if this is in any rental store.
Helen of Troy Good video
2009-06-01 - My boy, who is 8, saw this movie on t.v. and loved it. I liked the unique twist of having the movie be from Helen's point of view. I thought some of the acting was over the top, but hey this was the time of the big Hollywood epic. I wholeheartedly recommend this movie. It is suitable for kids as the violence is not graphic.
GREAT!
2009-05-02 - I saw the movie in Germany in 1956. It was a great movie then and it is still a great movie. I received the product in just a few days and it was in excellent condition. I am very satisfied and would buy from this seller again.
Queen of Beauty 
2009-01-23 - This movie I believe was made in the 50's, but even so it's pretty well done. I felt they portrayed Helen in a good light and not just some love struck hussy who leaves her husband for a younger man. They even give her some sort of Spartan reserve which is missing in the newest version Troy.
The acting is well done. I didn't expect it to be as good as it was really and I really enjoyed it. I also felt that the costumes and sets were pretty well done also and that this movie moved along at a good pace. Many movies from this era, and the 60's, tend to bog down in details that were never really needed. This film doesn't do that. I recommend this film to anyone who loves Greek myths or the Trojan War.
Pomp and circumstance 
2007-08-15 - 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 extreme beauty of their chests, but they're both exceptionally likeable in their roles. There are a lot of British stage actors in the other familiar parts: Stanley Baker is Achilles, Robert Douglas is Agamemnon, Niall MacGinnis is Menelaus, and Nora Swinburne is Hecuba. (The latter's particularly exquisite enunciation affords many of the film's unintentional comic highlights.)
It all could have been fairly disastrous, and the familiar events of legend are collapsed as much as possible so as all to be fitted into two hours. But it helps immensely that Robert Wise is the director and keeps things moving at a fair clip, and that the studio went pretty much all out on the sets and extras. Troy is made to look much like the reconstruction of the Palace at Knossos in Crete, with tapered red columns and bull-horn decorations (the latter more appropriate to the palace of King Minos than that of Priam, but what the heck). It's all every bit as silly as TROY, the 2004 telling of the same basic story, but this version is much more compulsively watchable.
