These old Italian S&S movies are awesome . They were made with style and panache . I saw them but remember very little ( 12yrs. Old ) so this is like a new movie . Picture is so clear and sharp . Thank You for the post .
Two movies with STEVE REEVES and EDY VESSEL were released in 1961: The Thief of Baghdad and The Trojan Horse John Drew Barrymore (father of Drew Barrymore) as Ulysses "Tales of Brave Ulysses" is a song released in 1967 by British group "Cream" and composed by Eric Clapton. You're welcome
This was just an AWESOME find for me today...so happy to have taken the time to watch it. One of the few Steve Reeves films I hadn't seen yet...which I sooo enjoyed back in my younger years during the 70's. No green screen...real filming and tons of extra's. Sure miss those days, back when the world made more sense. HOO-YAH & God Bless the actors efforts of yesteryear...!
@@andrewfranklin2389 oh yeah a fave with Richard Egan!! saw it at the theater with my 67 YO aunt - in her attempt to get to know me better [my parents died 2 years prior, she was my 'legal Guardian', neither of us knew anything about the other, I was a 'handful'] am a long time history buff & really enjoyed the movie, later discovered its' true roots in Grecian history AT SCHOOL! haven't seen that version in many years...'nuf said, ALOHA 4 now.....🙃😉😊
Steve Reeves appearance is so unbelievably perfect. He is so incredibly young, his hair is so full and black and his features so clean and his body so idealized. Callum von Moger came so incredibly close to being another Steve Reeves, but he did not want it. Steve was truly one of a kind.
A spectacular and very well produced sword n sandals epic from the Olde Days, when everything had to be done for real. Very impressive sets and costumes too. I can't help wondering with so many hunky men in extremely short tunics, whether anyone dared to go on set commando or not ! Those bloopers would be very interesting I expect !
Amazing movie . All the extras and all the horses . Where did they get all these horses from . Amazing . Don’t make them like this anymore unfortunately
Legend has it that Aeneas (Steve Reeves) fled with a few Trojan refugees into the Aegean and after many trials landed on the shores of Italy where some say he founded the early settlement where the future Rome was born. His son being named Ascanius.
Correct. Later on he went proposing to Dido queen of Carthage. They had a romance but she never agreed to marry him. Dido was forced to accept marrying a Berber king, she preferred to commit suicide. Tragic ending of the queen that founded Carthage. Romulus founded Rome. He was a descendent of Trojan blood. Him and his brother Remus were abandoned, their parents were killed. The legend say that a she wolf adopted them and fed them, Rome situation was chosen because it was protected by the 7 hills. Rome's biggest nemesis was Hannibal of Carthage. Beautiful stories of ancient Rome and how it came to be.
The people you mentioned became what history calls the Etruscan empire, which was absorbed into the later Roman empire. Today these people still have a great cultural identity in the Roma (gypsy) of today.
steve reeves was not the first mr olympia. that was larry scott. reeves never took part in an olympia as it was not in existence while he was bodybuilding.
... also have seen this good film since teenager ... now is a chance to see this good film with fully understanding dialogue... and with a bit knowing of history... . Thank you very much for showing this film ... .
This Achilles doesn't look that threatening. I forget how he's described in the Illiad. I do like they pay attention to a lot more characters here than just Hector, Paris and Achilles.
The "Achilles" in a little earlier film called "Helen of Troy" played by the English actor Stanley Baker was more fearsome than the one portrayed in this film.
@ 26:51, she is Helen whose face had launched a thousand ships and burned the topless towers of Ilium. Helen was portrayed by Italian actress Edy Vessel.
Italian movies: everybody cry ata once. But it has Steve Reeves!!! Such movies are the Italians’ westerns. Reeves’ voice was never heard in any of the many spectacles in which he starred, although he was the highest paid actor in Europe for about a decade.
Troys story isnt done yet cause Anaeus begins and becomes the founder of alba but he's descendants centuries later Romulus will begin the Journey and be the founder of one of the most powerful civilizations that will one day becomes an Empire and rules half the know world from the east to west THAT CIVILIZATION IS ROME
The "real" Iliad story hero was Achilles, not Aeneas, but in movies, the hero is the one who survives. In real history, Troja has destroyed twice in that period (1250-1177 BC) most likely with Greek and Agean involvement. Wilusa (Troja's real name in that period) was an ally of the mighty Hittite empire. Both Troy and this empire did not survive the end of the Bronze Age.
@@trinihammer Yes, seems to be plausible. The epic poem Aeneid, written by Virgil introduces this idea. However, it is also plausible that some Aegeans settled in Italy after Late Bronze Age Collapse (a few decays after the Trojan War, the real one, documented in the Hittite archives). For example, the Etruscan language is similar to the ancient language from the Agean island of Lemnos, very close to Troy.
@@tudorm6838 Etruscan like Basque and the Lemnos languages most likely belonged to a language family that stammed from Neolithic times before Indoeuropean spread over Europe. The Trojans spoke one of the Indoeuropean languages called Luwian and in no way related to Etruscan. The whole Aeneid sage is as historical as Tolkiens Lord of the Rings and most likely created by Virgil to tie Augustus with the pillar of culture the Illiad and Troy sagas. The Julian family claimed direct decent from Aeneas by his son Jullus and there by from Venus.
The scenes with the soldiers at the wall...I half-expected lines like, "...and your mother smelt of elderberries!" And "Is there someone else we can talk to?"
The actual site of Troy enclosed only the homes of the elite; most Trojans lived outside the safety of the main walls. Archeologists like Manfred Kaufmann found some evidence pointing to this.
When your in a siege you have limited food supplies, why those besieging you have time to still raid and look for food across the countryside. You would have an advantage holding off when they attack but if the enemy waits you out, the most surefire way to end a siege for the defenders is to go out and face them....risky yes but if you go out to combat and win, then the battle is over.
also ajax did not die at troy. nor did diomedies. in the movie they have aeaneas killing both greek heroes which didnt happen. besides there is no way aeaneas could defeat ajax in battle.
Beautiful Juliette Mayniel played Circe to Bekim Fehmiu's Ulysses in the Italian mini-series "L'Odissea". She's also one of Charles Denner's victims in "Landru" (a.k.a. "Bluebeard").
Oral history was common practice in ancient times. Homer, the author of the Iliad, visited many taverns and actually wrote down the stories recited by the troubadours for the tavern patrons. By that time, the Trojan War occurred at least 500 years before.
9:32 "why the pharao from egypt has not sent troops to help us?" "he couldn't, seems like he's busy with the plagues brought by some hebrew magician..." seriously i wonder why these films avo9id the mithological elements of the odissey, i mean, the gods and monsters appeared here too...
Hi Paul, we do understand Italian very well, believe us ;) Unfortunately, the titles are not always litteraly translated and, in this case, if you check on IMDb, you'll find out that the USA title is The Trojan Horse :)
I observed there are 'Roman' looking helmets in the battle scenes as well ... Did these battles really take place before the walls of Troy were breached via that infamous 'horse'? Never knew there was this movie until now. Or perhaps it should have been called 'Troy - The Alternative Version.
The ending is historically accurate. Rome was founded by the survivors of the Trojan people. This, according to Livy, Book One, which I just finished describes the founding of Rome. Hundreds of years later Greece was crushed by the Romans. It's bittersweet because of all the suffering and hardships throughout these thousands of years. If there is a lesson to be learned here it's that the defeated will one day re-emerge and dispense a sort of justice to the defeaters. This could and should happen to the unjustly disparaged of WWII. It may take some time.
Evandros and the son of Pallas in Greek mythology was a legendary hero from Arcadia, who brought to Italy the Greek twelve gods, the laws and the alphabet. He founded the city of Palladion and is the inhabitant of the Palatine Hill in Ancient Rome sixty years before the Trojan War began. The ancient Romans believed that he was the one who brought the Greek worship of the gods to Italy (e.g. worship of Pan, Lupercalia) The Evandros was worshiped as a deity after his death with an altar built in his honor on the Aventine hill. Strabo writes that according to old legends, Rome is an Arcadian colony inhabited by Evandros Virgil mentions Evandros in Aeneid 8-11
I thought Paris was supposed to be a handsome youth. I guess Italy couldn't find one. And Helen was supposed to be the most beautiful woman in the world. What happened here?
First, the ten years of war did a number of them... Second, a good point this movie made on where its characters of Paris and Helen, this seems the best representation of them compared to the legend.
Va rog foarte mult sa traduceți an limba romana a-mi doresc sa văd acest film nu l-am mai văzut de când eram o puștoaică la liceu mulțumesc succes sanatate
Far superior movie with believable actors like Reeves; with none of that cheap computer simulated TRASH that Hollywood puts out these days. They'll never make movies like this again, sad to say.
Ιn most of his movies Steve Reeves is pictured as Hercules a Greek Hero......here it depicts Aeneas a Roman Hero thus the Greeks are the vilains here .....but still the scenario is closer to Homer's Iliad than Hollywood's 2004 "Troy"
