Helen Of Troy (1956)

Arrows rain death Courageous soldiers clamber up stone walls. Swords clang, men shout, fires rage. Yet the waves of combatants storming Tray are turmed back. To defeat the undefeatable ultimately requires brains as much as brawn. So the Greeks, feigning withdrawal, offler a gift of treachery: a mammath wooden horse fhat secretly houses their lighting men Homer's lliad surges to the screen in Helen of Troy, from the 50s heyday of big screen spectaculars. Robert Wise (West Side Story. The sound of Music) directs this lavish epic capturing some 30,000, people on screen at a then huge cost of $ó million. Among the 30,000. Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Brigitte Bardot before her sex symbol renown and, as the lovers whose romance inflamed the world, Rossana Podesto Sodom and Gomorrah) and Jack Sernos La Dolce Vita), Before the fiim, three Behind the Comeros segments from the Warner Bros. Present TV series detail aspects of its production