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Last year a Roman studio produced Ulysses, a $3,200,000 version of the Odyssey, but the title role was played by Hollywood Actor Kirk Douglas, and the picture was released in the U.S. by Paramount Pictures. The Iliad is now presented in a $6000,000 production in full color by Warner Bros., but the picture has an Italian heroine, and was actually filmed in Rome's big Cinecitta. In both cases, the blind poet, who wrote as well as any man for the mind's eye, has been translated for the camera's with all possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 30, 1956 | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

Source of Information: Principally the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems by blind Homer, the greatest poet of classical antiquity and the greatest war correspondent of all time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: THE TROJAN WAR | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

...Shakespeare, Homer, if we would include both the Iliad and the Odyessey, and Dante. I shall not be sorry tomorrow for mentioning them. I have not necessarily given them in the order of their importance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Late Dean Briggs: A 1934 Chat | 12/10/1955 | See Source »

...deeper heartbreak, as Lieut. Garcet learns, lies not in the infantryman's Iliad of anguish and backbreaking toil at the bloody Korean ridge. It lies in the bitter knowledge that at home the sacrifice has largely gone unnoticed. For France's "les oubliés" (forgotten ones) and for all the others who went to Korea, Heartbreak Ridge is both a stirring reminder and an epitaph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 9, 1955 | 5/9/1955 | See Source »

Television spent the week racing back and forth through history like a time machine. Omnibus set out heroically to recreate Homer's Iliad, and for 90 minutes the poetry was mostly drowned out in a clatter of tin swords on tin shields as Trojan and Greek struggled on the plain and seashore of Troy. The Trojans lost the war, but they won what few acting honors were available: Frederick Rolf displayed both majesty and grief as King Priam, while Michael Higgins' doomed Hector seemed far more a man and soldier than his rival, Achilles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 4/18/1955 | See Source »

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