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Ulysses
A retelling of Homer's The Odyssey, focusing on Ulysses's ten-year journey home to Ithaca following the Trojan War, where he faces various mythical challenges while his wife Penelope fends off suitors.
1954 · Directed by Mario Camerini · 100 min · Adventure · Fantasy · 25 frames
Tagline
History's Greatest Epic...On the Screen at Last!
Crew
- Screenplay: Franco Brusati, Ivo Perilli, Hugh Gray, Ben Hecht
- Cinematography: Harold Rosson
- Edited by: Leo Catozzo
- Music: Alessandro Cicognini
- Production design: Flavio Mogherini
- Produced by: Dino De Laurentiis, Carlo Ponti
Cast
- Kirk Douglas as Ulysses
- Silvana Mangano as Circe / Penelope
- Anthony Quinn as Antinous
- Rossana Podestà as Nausicaa
- Jacques Dumesnil as Alcinous
- Daniel Ivernel as Eurylochus
- Sylvie as Eurycleia
- Franco Interlenghi as Telemachus
- Elena Zareschi as Cassandra
- Evi Maltagliati as Anticlea
Production
- Country: Italy, France, United States of America
- Language: Italian
- Studios: Lux Film, Ponti-De Laurentiis Cinematografica
- Budget: $500,000
- Box office: $2,880,000
- Themes: sea, island, hero, greek mythology, bow and arrow, super power, cyclops, ancient greece, voyage, sea voyage
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