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Helen of Troy (Original title)
Date: 1955 (Release)

Country: USA

Directed by: Robert Wise

Synopsis: Story of battle between Trojans and Spartans. The latter destroy the city with the device of the wooden horse and Helen goes back to Greece with her husband, Menelaus.

Genre:
Drama

Subject:
Sparta
Releases
Date: 1955Country: USARelease type: unknownFormat: not specified - Colour - SoundRuntime: 114 mins Length: 10254 FeetLanguage: English

Credits (28)
Production Company: Warner Bros., Production Manager: Maurizio Lodi-fe, Production Manager: Giuseppe De Blasio, Second Unit Director: Yakima Canutt, Assistant Director: Gus Agosti, Screen Play by: John Twist, Hugh Gray, Adaptation by: Hugh Gray, N. Richard Nash, Director of Photography: Harry Stradling, Second Unit Photographer: Sid Hickox, Amerigo Gengarelli, Photographic Special Effects: Louis Lichtenfield, Film Editor: Thomas Reilly, Art Director: Edward Carrere, Associate Art Director: Ken Adam, Continuity Sketches by: Maurice Zuberano, [Scenic Artist]: Italo Tomassi, Costumes Designed by: Roger Furse, Makeup Artist: Bill Phillips, Hair Stylist: A.G. Scott, Music by: Max Steiner, Orchestrations by: Murray Cutter, Bachanal Choreography: Madi Obolensky, Sound by: Charles B. Lang, [Dialogue Coach]: Harriet White, Made at: Cinecittà
Cast (23)
Rossana Podesta (Helen), Jack Sernas (Paris), Sir Cedric Hardwicke (Priam), Stanley Baker (Achilles), Niall MacGinnis (Menelaus), Nora Swinburne (Hecuba), Robert Douglas (Agamemnon), Torin Thatcher (Ulysses), Harry Andrews (Hector), Janette Scott (Cassandra), Ronald Lewis (Aeneas), Brigitte Bardot (Andraste), Eduardo Ciannelli (Andros), Marc Lawrence (Diomedes), Maxwell Reed (Ajax), Robert Brown (Polydorus), Barbara Cavan (Cora), Terence Longdon (Patroclus), Patricia Marmont (Andromache), Guido Notari (Nestor), Tonio Selwart (Alpheus), Georges Zoritch (dancer), Esmond Knight (high priest)