Achilles (1962)
(L'Ira di Achille)
Country: IT
Technical: col 118m
Director: Marino Girolami
Cast: Gordon Mitchell, Jacques Bergerac, Cristina Gaioni
Synopsis:
The story of the argument between Agamemnon and Achilles, which, during the last year of the Trojan war, threatened to divide the Greek camp and deprive them of their champion.
Review:
Bowdlerised, stilted but energetic peplum. Achilles himself is a properly ugly piece of work, and the film remains faithful to the basic plot of the Iliad, which is in its favour, but the green fields and mediaeval walled city are not quite the classic view of Troy, and the decision to do without the hero's death is bizarre since, even as things are, the film does not exactly end with a bang.
(L'Ira di Achille)
Country: IT
Technical: col 118m
Director: Marino Girolami
Cast: Gordon Mitchell, Jacques Bergerac, Cristina Gaioni
Synopsis:
The story of the argument between Agamemnon and Achilles, which, during the last year of the Trojan war, threatened to divide the Greek camp and deprive them of their champion.
Review:
Bowdlerised, stilted but energetic peplum. Achilles himself is a properly ugly piece of work, and the film remains faithful to the basic plot of the Iliad, which is in its favour, but the green fields and mediaeval walled city are not quite the classic view of Troy, and the decision to do without the hero's death is bizarre since, even as things are, the film does not exactly end with a bang.
(L'Ira di Achille)
Country: IT
Technical: col 118m
Director: Marino Girolami
Cast: Gordon Mitchell, Jacques Bergerac, Cristina Gaioni
Synopsis:
The story of the argument between Agamemnon and Achilles, which, during the last year of the Trojan war, threatened to divide the Greek camp and deprive them of their champion.
Review:
Bowdlerised, stilted but energetic peplum. Achilles himself is a properly ugly piece of work, and the film remains faithful to the basic plot of the Iliad, which is in its favour, but the green fields and mediaeval walled city are not quite the classic view of Troy, and the decision to do without the hero's death is bizarre since, even as things are, the film does not exactly end with a bang.