Helen of Troy (1956)

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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 ultimatel requires brains more than brawn. So feigning retreat, the Greeks offer a gift: a mammoth wooden horse secretly housing their fighting men. Homers Ilead surges to the screen in Helen Of Troy, from the '50s heyday of big screen spectaclulars. Rober Wise directs this lavish epic capturing some 30,000 people on screen at the then huge cost of $6 million. Among the 30,000 Sir Frederick Hardwicke, Brigitte Bardot before her sex symbol renown, and as the lovers at the conflicts centre, Rossana Podesta (Sodom and Gomorrah) and Jack Sernas (La Dolce Vita)