A movie adaptation of Homer's second epic, that talks about Ulysses' efforts to return to his home after the end of ten years of war.
Practical Effects
That Cyclops puppet is nightmare fuel and I love it
Acting
Kirk Douglas smolders through every beard hardship
Costume
Peplums so short they defy ancient physics
Director
Mario Camerini
Kirk Douglas
Ulysses
Silvana Mangano
Circe / Penelope
Anthony Quinn
Antinoos
Rossana Podestà
Nausicaa
Jacques Dumesnil
Alicinous
Daniel Ivernel
Eurylochus
Sylvie
Euriclea
Franco Interlenghi
Telemachus
Elena Zareschi
Cassandra
Evi Maltagliati
Anticlea
Ludmilla Dudarova
Arete
Tania Weber
Eucalicanto
Piero Lulli
Achilles
Ferruccio Stagni
Mentor
Alessandro Fersen
Diomede
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Cyclops was a 20-foot mechanical puppet operated by 12 men inside; Douglas kept flubbing takes because he found it genuinely terrifying.
This was the first major Hollywood-Italian co-production to shoot entirely in Italy, essentially inventing the 'sword and sandal' boom that led to Hercules and Spartacus.
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