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Helen of Troy is a 1956 Warner Bros. epic film, based on Homer's Iliad. It was directed by Robert Wise, from a screenplay by Hugh Gray and John Twist, adapted by Hugh Gray and N. Richard Nash. The music score was by Max Steiner and the cinematography by Harry Stradling Sr. The film stars Rossana Podestà, Stanley Baker, Sir Cedric Hardwicke and Jacques Sernas, with Niall MacGinnis, Maxwell Reed Nora Swinburne, Robert Douglas, Torin Thatcher, Harry Andrews, Janette Scott, Ronald Lewis, Eduardo Ciannelli, Esmond Knight and a young Brigitte Bardot as Andraste, Helen's handmaiden.
The film retells the story of the Trojan War, albeit with some major changes from the Iliad's storyline: Paris of Troy (Jacques Sernas) sails to Sparta to secure a peace treaty between the two powerful city-states. His ship is forced to return to Troy in a storm after he has been swept overboard on the shore of Sparta, but Paris is found by Helen, Queen of Sparta (Rossana Podestà), with whom he falls in love. He goes to the palace where he finds Helen's husband, King Menelaus (Niall MacGinnis), Agamemnon (Robert Douglas), Odysseus (Torin Thatcher), Achilles (Stanley Baker) and many other Greek kings debating whether to go to war with Troy. Menelaus sees that Helen and Paris are in love and, pretending friendship, plots Paris' death.
Prince Paris of Troy, shipwrecked on a mission to the king of Sparta, meets and falls for Queen Helen before he knows who she is. Rudely received by the royal Greeks, he must flee...but fate and their mutual passions lead him to take Helen along. This gives the Greeks just the excuse they need for much-desired war.
Keywords: abduction, ancient-greece, arson, bare-chested-male, battle, battlefield, blonde, boat, bow-and-arrow, boxing
Priam: [on seeing the Greek naval fleet approaching] The face that launched a thousand ships!
Paris: Make me immortal with a kiss!
Helen: [seeing the Trojan horse] Beware Greeks bearing gifts.
Helen: Forgive me Helen. You're two women. Both wise and good. I am two men, one fairly good, I try to believe and the other very bad indeed.::Helen: One is a man, the other just a boy I think... Paris, let him be so always... Never let him grow old.
Paris: Oh Goddess come to Earth. Make me a mortal with your kiss and we'll live on nectar and ambrosia... [kiss]... But I am not sure I like being so ethereal.
Helen: There's away Gods have... To give with one hand and take with two.
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