The Trojan Horse

Oct 26, 1961

1h 45m

★ 5.4

The World's Mightiest Man In The Mightiest Spectacle Ever Filmed

Overview

Trojan hero Aeneas battles to save his city from the Greeks, but once Troy falls, he leads the 600 survivors to Italy and founds the city of Rome.

Genres

History

Adventure

War

Production Companies

Compagnie Industrielle et Commerciale Cinématographique

Europa Cinematografica

Les Films Modernes

The Trojan Horse Trailers

Cast

Aeneas

Steve Reeves

Creusa

Juliette Mayniel

Ulysses

John Drew Barrymore

Cassandra

Lidia Alfonsi

Helen

Edy Vessel

Paris

Warner Bentivegna

Andromache

Luciana Angiolillo

Achilles

Arturo Dominici

Ajax

Mimmo Palmara

Agamemnon

Nerio Bernardi

Menelaus

Nando Tamberlani

Re Priamo

Carlo Tamberlani

In year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age, two emerging nations begin to clash. Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that his wife was taken by the Trojans, he asks his brother Agamemnon to help him get her back. Agamemnon sees this as an opportunity for power. They set off with 1,000 ships holding 50,000 Greeks to Troy.

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