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Release Date:
October 1955 (USA) more
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Tagline:
One of the greatest adventures of world literature! Packed with fury...excitement...cunning and tempestuous love! more
Plot:
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. | add synopsis
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Kirk Douglas at his best more (18 total)

Cast

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Kirk Douglas ... Ulysses
Silvana Mangano ... Circe / Penelope

Anthony Quinn ... Antinoos
Rossana Podestà ... Nausicaa
Jacques Dumesnil ... Alicinous
Daniel Ivernel ... Euriloco
Sylvie ... Euriclea
Franco Interlenghi ... Telemachus
Elena Zareschi ... Cassandra
Evi Maltagliati ... Anticlea
Ludmilla Dudarova ... Arete
Tania Weber ... Eucalicanto
Piero Lulli ... Achille
Ferruccio Stagni ... Mentor
Alessandro Fersen ... Diomede (as Alessandro Ferzen)
Oscar Andriani ... Calops
Umberto Silvestri ... Polifemo / Krakos
Gualtiero Tumiati ... Laerte
Teresa Pellati ... Melanto
Mario Feliciani ... Eurimaco
Michele Riccardini ... Leodes
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Andrea Aureli ... (uncredited)
Andrea Bosic ... Agamemnon (uncredited)
Walter Brandi ... (uncredited)
Lucia Brusco ... (uncredited)
Daniele Dentice ... (uncredited)
Giovanni Di Benedetto ... (uncredited)
Mirella Di Lauri ... (uncredited)
Jenny Folchi ... (uncredited)
Piero Ghione ... (uncredited)
Sergio Giovannucci ... (uncredited)
Ettore Jannetti ... (uncredited)
Victor Ledda ... (uncredited)
Alberto Lupo ... (uncredited)
Enzo Maggio ... (uncredited)
Renato Malavasi ... (uncredited)
Piero Mastrocinque ... (uncredited)
Carlo Mazzoni ... (uncredited)
Vera Molnar ... Girl (uncredited)
Claudio Morgan ... (uncredited)
Corrado Nardi ... (uncredited)
Piero Pastore ... Leocrito (uncredited)
Massimo Pietrobon ... (uncredited)
Aldo Pini ... Polites (uncredited)
Mimmo Poli ... (uncredited)
Roberto Rai ... (uncredited)
Amerigo Santarelli ... (uncredited)
Goliarda Sapienza ... (uncredited)
Gino Scotti ... (uncredited)
Benito Stefanelli ... (uncredited)
Edoardo Toniolo ... (uncredited)
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Directed by
Mario Camerini 
Mario Bava (uncredited)
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Franco Brusati  writer
Mario Camerini  writer
Ennio De Concini  writer
Hugh Gray  writer
Ben Hecht  writer
Homer  poem
Ivo Perilli  writer
Irwin Shaw  writer

Produced by
Dino De Laurentiis .... producer
Carlo Ponti .... producer
 
Original Music by
Alessandro Cicognini 
 
Cinematography by
Harold Rosson 
 
Film Editing by
Leo Cattozzo 
 
Production Design by
Flavio Mogherini 
 
Set Decoration by
Andrea A. Tomassi 
 
Costume Design by
Giulio Coltellacci 
Mme. Gres 
 
Makeup Department
Goffredo Rocchetti .... makeup artist
Eugen Schüfftan .... makeup artist
 
Production Management
Fernando Cinquini .... production supervisor
Ralph Serpe .... production supervisor
Bruno Todini .... general manager
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Ottorino Franco Bertolini .... assistant director (as Ottorino Bertolini)
Guidarino Guidi .... assistant director
Serge Vallin .... assistant director
 
Art Department
Italo Tomassi .... manager of art department (uncredited)
 
Sound Department
Mario Amari .... sound mixer
Mario Morigi .... sound engineer
 
Special Effects by
Eugen Schüfftan .... special effects
 
Camera and Electrical Department
Mario Parapetti .... camera operator
 
Editorial Department
John Bridge .... color consultant
Tatiana Casini Morigi .... assistant editor (as Tatiana Casini)
 
Music Department
Franco Ferrara .... musical director
 
Other crew
Lidia Simoneschi .... voice dubbing: Silvana Mangano
Giovannella Zannoni .... script supervisor
Georg Wilhelm Pabst .... preparatory phases (uncredited)
 

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Loves and Adventures of Ulysses (UK) (poster title)
Ulysses (USA)
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Runtime:
Germany:100 min | USA:94 min | Argentina:116 min | Italy:117 min
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Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.66 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)
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Fun Stuff

Goofs:
Factual errors: When Ulysses and his men crush the grapes to make wine for Poliphemus, Ulysses gives the juice directly to him. It hasn't had time to ferment. So, Poliphemus is getting drunk from just grape juice. more
Movie Connections:
Version of As Aventuras sexuals de Ulysses (1998) (V) more

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6 out of 10 people found the following review useful.
Kirk Douglas at his best, 24 December 1999
10/10
Author: Stephen (RomeoRomeo) from Las Vegas

I saw this film when I was seven,(1962), I was an epic then and will remain an epic thru eternity. Good strong Italian cast, camera angles and cinematography were cutting edge for that time,(52),Ulysses,(Kirk Douglas), has been away from home on a quest of war and exploration for ten years, and his wife fears he has died in the wars, with her heart broken and her friends and family giving advice to move on with her life, plus the towns political figures trying to pursue her "late" husbands fortune in the guise of suitors, Ulysses wife devises a contest, with the winner taking all including her hand in marriage. All one must do is string Ulysses bow and shoot an arrow thru a multitude of axe heads eyes to meet it's destination at a bullseye at the other end, (without touching the eyelets of the axe handles). What happens at the event is a climax worth waiting for, for thirty-eight years, as that's how long I've waited for it to be released on video/DVD. Release date: 1/1/2000. I rate it a ten!

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