Another sword 'n sandals epic from the 50s, that I'd never heard of till Turner Classic Movies. Agree with everyone's sneers at the wooden blondies in the starring roles and gay ignorance of the immortal story of Homer's. What I dislike the most was the rotten parody of Hector's farewell to Andromache, the most moving passage in the whole epic. The baby son (about a year old in Homer, around five in the movie) is frightened by "the fierce plume that nodded from (Hector's) helmet." A real prince of five would have no fear of helmets: ( Alexander killed his first man when he was twelve), nor would his father say anything like "may he never need one." Homer has Hector laugh and dandle the baby saying, "may he be a great hero, a better man than his father."
They also leave out the parting comment of wise Andromache "as far the host, place them by the fig tree, where the wall is weakest." There actually is such a weak spot in the excavated walls of Bronze Age Troy.
Review of Helen of Troy
