This is one gutsy ending with Ulysses going unhinged, releasing his wrath on those that have taken advantage of his family. WOW! What an amazing turn of events!
My dad who has passed at 72 yrs of age introduced this movie to me as a child. I've been enchanted ever since and will continue the legacy and introduce this golden era of cinema to my kids.
Being Indian I appreciate Lady Penelope. She seems pure, pious and Loyal to her husband. Awaiting such long period of arrival of her husband is remarkable. I further appreciate such wife.Thanks to all.Love to all.
Yeah but what if he never came back and died , she would have wasted her 1 life . And many men are not pious. That is not equal. I believe since man and woman come from God , neither is better than the other
The ancient Greeks had the best stories ever!!!! Who else could have thought of such a story of war, betrayal, love and honor? Only the ancient Greeks had such mind numbing stories to tell only with the words of the blind poet/storyteller, Homer!........ well before books, before films and cinema, before TV, before the Internet..the best story tellers the world will ever know!!!!
And also met.warlord do you know Mahabharata is ten times the illiad and the Odyssey combined and has every arc and subplot your homer couldn't even have thought
@@jeamesbombaymassage6154 you are wrong. Indians got to know the Greek culture after the fall of the Persian Empire from Alexander the Great and were influenced by it in the 4th century
@@sweetanstudioz4480 you are wrong. Indians got to know the Greek culture after the fall of the Persian Empire from Alexander the Great and were influenced by it in the 4th century
@@jamesplunkett8912 And before to it, you must read Homer's Odyssey. The film has many changes, and even it omits both many facts, characters and deities to understand its plot well.
In the book, she doesn't know. Not until after the fight...But it's a good idea to make aware now. Text is simply a different medium. It doesn't translate well in visual language. My favorite films from books are the ones that do not follow the book exactly, and take any liberties that allow them to convey the essence and the voice of the book rather than the plot
There are two details here that I think are good changes. 1. In Homer's Odyssey, after Antinous is shot, Eurymachus tries to apologize to Odysseus/Ulysses, offering to repay him for everything the suitors have taken while he was gone. Odysseus refuses the offer and says that nothing can persuade him not to kill them all. This adaptation changes it so that the suitors immediately attack as soon as they realize Ulysses is back. This makes the killing of the suitors more justified, since there was no opportunity to negotiate with them. 2. After the suitors are all slaughtered, in Homer's version Odysseus has 12 serving women who slept with the suitors clean the room before they are all hanged, which seems grossly unfair, to say the least. This adaptation shows the serving women actually bringing weapons to the suitors and encouraging them to kill Ulysses, so it's more clear that they truly are traitors.
You mean Homer's Ulysses has been "woked": slaughter now justified because he was anice guy in a bad place...and the Sirens? Typical "flirtacious harlots"? What next, Achilles's friend Patroclus wasn't his lover? The Olymic games weren't a gay pickup event? Ancient Greece was no paradise; it was rough.
Love watching classics films like this one. High end actors, talented directors, amazing scenic perspectives, and detailed to the T designs. Hollywood will never be as great or golden ever again.
In Spartacus, Douglas played the rebellious slave character as humble and meditative. Not so in Ulysses; Douglas played this hero of Homer as an arrogant king, extroverted and even boisterous.
Ulysses (or Odysseus, as the Greeks called him) was being punished by the gods for just such arrogance you pointed out. Kirk Douglas wasn't just an "action star", he was a fine actor capable of great range.
That's how Homer wrote it. He killed them all with his son's help. Antinoos died first. They teach us the full book in school rapsody by rapsody for a whole year.
Strings the bow, there's a clap of thunder -- that's straight from the text of Homer as written! Homer would have been a screenwriter for sure if he lived in our era.
Yes, she waited and weaved and untangled and re-weaved and untangled her tapestry to buy time for her husband, knowing the great warrior King Oddyseus would return from the Trojan War....at the start only Odysseus's faithful dog, Argos recognised him.........what a great, epic story of love, honor, commitment, courage, loyalty, patriotism and heroism, a story that was born from reality, that only the Greeks could concieve and which has lasted till this very day! That is why Western Civilisation prospered, on the back of Hellenic culture!
@@Lundahlium It's a good movie and Kirk Douglas the best Odysseus ever in cinema. But it could be better. Here they made Kirki the which and Calypso the nymph in one person, and I would like to include the adventure in Aeolus (god of the winds) island.
This was truly a great movie, although it was panned at the time. Ulysses set the tone for the rest of my life. It's haunting beauty and marvelous action scenes made me a true scholar of Homer - the Iliad and the Odyssey. That was over 60 years ago, and this movie still thrills me.
I saw this movie in a double feature with "The Vikings" when I was a kid a long time ago. And I have loved Kirk Douglas ever since. The "double feature" was like a "double header" baseball game and both have become extinct. But when I was a kid, you could see two "features" for the price of one. Movie theatres had to complete with a new invention called "television" that was gaining popularity and they tried all kinds of things.
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I love how the scene is played out. The beggar who is laughed at bends the bow that no-one can bend and then fires the arrow through 12 axe heads. Then, the detractors realise who they were laughing at was Ulysses.
One of the greatest finales in movie history. All plot points are wrapped up in true epic fashion. Ruthless and deeply satisfying at same time. A happy ending only through the blood of traitors and cowards. Long Live Ulysses! Death to all usurpers!
@@HopliteWarlord The Iliad and the Odyssey are amazing. The gods and goddesses of Olympus are all in it. Ulysses has Poseidon's wrath and the kind help of clear eyed Athena.
Kudos to the uploader. Kirk had the best musculature on the screen. I saw this back 1970ish on the late show. It certainly wasn't the the definitive version of the Odyssey, but at the time it more than sufficed.
I remember that as a young lad I was absolutely gob smacked when the one eyed giant picked up one of Ulesses's crew & bit him in half. "Hmmm these Greeks are tough.....stringy meat." Wow. That was pretty graphic for those days.
I like the scene where he comes back and only his old dog recognised him ,and some body kicks his begging bowl out of his hands... warning.. bad move tosser
Silvana Mangano has been a very beautyful italian woman,but not really an actress! She was the spouse of an rich italian producer who wanted to have his wife in his movies !
Italian-made with some Hollywood talent, including the cinematographer and some of the (many) writers. Directed by Mario Camerini, whose career went back to the silent era. He directed one of the earliest sword-and-sandal (peplum) films - Maciste Against the Sheik - so he had experience in this sort of thing. However, he doesn't seem to be much of a director of actors. Anthony Quinn does only the obvious sort of epic-y stuff here, as do the other suitors.Silvana Mangano didn't have to do much but look beautifully stoic, or stoically beautiful - she was the wife of one of the producers (Dino De Laurentiis). Douglas is fine, playing to his strength of volcanic pressure just under the surface, then erupting. I checked this out because the design of some lampposts I see form a similar "tunnel" effect as the curves of the axes, and I started thinking about this sequence. Thanks to the Internet and You Tube, here it is. Yay. Now for the sequence with the Cyclops, Polyphemus...
They laughed at the old man.... until it was too late to be kind to the old veteran They made too many mistakes, each punishable by Death First, they landed in his island and pretended to rob him of his kingdom Second, they tried to steal his Wife who as clever as him fooled them for years Third, they mistreated his subjects and servants and lounged freeboard upon his wealth and forcing hospitality of his Queen with unwelcomed demands Fourth, they plotted to have the fruit of his wife and his love, their son usurped aside and murdered And last, and most lethal of all, they thought they could outmatch the old veteran of Troy's War, the Man who singlehandedly made it possible through brow not brawn to ultimately conquer that city impossible to be defeated by all war means. Douglas was magnificent in this Epic of Epics films demanding a physical overlord against his odds. Her catatonic acting was not in line to Quinn's and Douglas but they carried the show above just honoring the Master of all bards
I saw this film during my school days around 1960 . this is the most admirebal scene implanted in my memory.i have viewed this about 100 times.according to me he is the most admirebal actor in the western cinema.i have seen many films represented by this actor.also he had the opportunity to live beyond 100 years.
Well Armand Asante and Kirk Douglas have lived on different time on movie film. What i love in Armand Asante is when he was asked what the suitors crime? They said we treated your queen with respect, we eat your house but that can be replaced, we never killed anyone.Then King Odyseus replied . The crime is that you try to stel my world , the world which i built with my life , my hands, my wife who bore me my son and for that you will die.......Kirk Douglas memorable scene for me i think was when i remember him disguising as a beggar where the first to recognized him that he already returns was his Dog Percy ..I loved the scene that it really vivids my memory.. I loved this Iliad and Odyssey of Homer novel...
It was odiseus spirit that brought him back home after the conclusion of the war & after the long adventure cruise complication & he wait for the right moment no important how hard it was for him to jump on the dumb that stealing his property opposing anything that belong to him his kingdom & his beloved wife suffering of all these years waiting straightforward for him to come back which as I said before he jumped on them & cleared up the situation for once & for all
My Junior high school played this film for us and no one was goofing off as usual but quiet watching and the bus bell went off but everyone stayed till we seen this amazing ending. I bought the dvd 10 years ago .
Kirk Douglas was in 3 great hero films --- Ulysses, The Vikings, and Spartacus. Which one is best??? They are all great. The dancing on the oars he did in the Vikings he ad libbed.
Amazing that he uses a simple pinch of the thumb and forefinger to pluck the bow that no one can bend. They could have at least taught him the three finger method.
the trick was that they used the traditional hold to pull the string as hard as they could to the bow ridge, when the string will never stretch as only the bow will bend. BUT, in doing so their own fingers take space for the string to come closer to bow. He simply scooped the string hole in his palm and with the tip of his finger tucked in the bow the loop. That's a very calculated measure only a methodical mind as Ulysses could painstakingly come up himself. His shot through the axes rings was no less telling of such mind that worked like a precision clockmaker. And the rest cool hand and sober wits against so many enemies when it comes to him, is proverbial of a man who's a veteran of much worse these pencil pushers ever seen or stand around such hells as he did and overcame victorious where many failed. The most gifted of Hellenes.
im glad i was able to watch this clip. my father used to tell me this story when i was a kid and until now i could still remember the story. hope they can have a remake for this❤️
@@acdragonrider : with the technology of today, those myths and legends could be made into quite wonderful films. I really miss these great epic films, a lot!
Don't forget to watch the other, more modern, version of this, also on U Tube. It's long but pretty good and almost sticks to the original plot. Odysseus has always been my ideal.
A good, yes, I saw the series with Armand Assante as Ulysses, I guess, the final scene was filmed with brutal realism that took me to the edge of my seat. Homero was a genius!
This is an old movie - so awesome to see Kirk Douglas young and strong! He died in February of this year 2020 - at age 103. RIP Mr. Douglas - you were always a fascinating and beautiful man - I will remember you this way. Edit: I had his age at 104. My bad.
Exactly right. And in Homer, Penelope's faithfulness is strongly contrasted with the unfaithfulness of Clytemnestra', Agamemnon's wife, who not only cheats on him but murders him with the aid of her lover when he returns from Troy. Mind you, Agamemnon not only fooled around himself in Troy, but claims Achilles' "prize", one of the women captured by the Acheans, thus setting up the quarrel which is the subject of the "Iliad".
@@jennytawler2653 Clytemnestra and Egidus kill Agam because he sacrificed his and Clyt's young daughter for faithful winds as they left for Ilion/Troy. Clyt and Egidus are then murdered in their bath by her and Agam.'s own son, Oreste. Talk about family night.
A corny film sometimes, but this scene is taken right from Homer (that TV version from 1997 got this scene very wrong). I have long thought it the most dramatic moment in literature, when he strings the bow, and the suitors suddenly think "Oh crap, we're done for. . . "
+edriant1916 Really? I thought the 1997 version did it terrific. The moment where he passes the test and his disguise is removed, and all the suitors see who he is. I thought it was much more dramatic. Though I admit the suitors here put up much more of a fight.
In the 1997 version I remember Odysseus telling Telemachus "Now is the time for your anger" and a moment later Telemachus sticks a spear through Antinous. Homer, and Kirk Douglas' film, have Odysseus sending an arrow through Antinous' neck. It may seem a minor difference, but I was disappointed.
This is certainly much closer to Homer but it’s still far off in a very important aspect - in Homer, Penelope does NOT witness the slaughter of the Suitors, which sets things up for a very important scene, where Penelope « tests » Odyseseus (Ulysses) and he proves who he is, which leads Penelope to go straight to bed with him.
It could be. Greek heroes from that era are somewhere between legend and history. They found the real ruins of Agamemnon's (Mycenae) and Nestor's (Pylos) palaces who was his companions in Troy's war.
The first arrow was to go through the throat of Antinous as he raised a golden cup of wine to his lips . After the slaughter the floor was covered in “ filth “ blood and gore . Odysseus spred sulphur over the floor and set it ablaze and purified his great hall .
This movie was made close enough in time to when people still understood how axes worked. I've seen other, later versions where the arrow was fired through a ring at the end of the ax handle or through an ornamental hole in the axe head, even bursting through solid axe heads. People who regularly used axes understood what it meant to shoot an arrow through the hole in an axe.
One of the first and best "Spear and Sandal" films; commonly called "Peplums". They became standard movie fare at the Saturday Matinee of the 50's and 60s'.
It's an amazing movie,n that the entire affair shown, belongs to the land of Socrates,Plato n Aristotle! Hopefully,it does still spellbound, the viewers of 21st Century! Memorable!Kudos to Kirk! Remarkable Post!
This is pretty much right out of Homer. All the suitors fail, Odysseus in disguise asks to make the attempt, he is roundly ridiculed (Homer has him pelted with garbage at this point). Effortlessly he strings the bow, all are struck silent, "oh crap, we're done for." most dramatic moment in literature.
104 years and until life took him, the force was strong in this one. Amazinga actor.
The look on Penelope 's face, when Ulysses bends the bow, then thunder cracks, is priceless.
One of my favorite scenes from a movie, have watched it over and over. RIP Kirk Douglas
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@@sheriffarid8043 The "Vikings"
Paths of Glory
A precious tribute to the most fantastic adventure story and one of the greatest actors of all time.
What did he do to Natalie Wood? You are a FOOL!
@@frankgraham1996Robert Wagner??
My dad who has passed at 72 yrs of age introduced this movie to me as a child. I've been enchanted ever since and will continue the legacy and introduce this golden era of cinema to my kids.
Bravo that's what they all would and want us to do . Bring these experiences and pleasures with our children
Happy 102nd birthday Kirk Douglas🎈🎈🎈🎂
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RIP Legend
Being Indian I appreciate Lady Penelope. She seems pure, pious and Loyal to her husband. Awaiting such long period of arrival of her husband is remarkable. I further appreciate such wife.Thanks to all.Love to all.
The best virtues too in my opinion
She was a noble woman, worthy of her high position. 👑
In those Days it was what a Wife was supposed to be first and foremost: Loyal and chaste.
Long time gone ...
Love ❤️ to you
Yeah but what if he never came back and died , she would have wasted her 1 life . And many men are not pious. That is not equal. I believe since man and woman come from God , neither is better than the other
The ancient Greeks had the best stories ever!!!! Who else could have thought of such a story of war, betrayal, love and honor?
Only the ancient Greeks had such mind numbing stories to tell only with the words of the blind poet/storyteller, Homer!........ well before books, before films and cinema, before TV, before the Internet..the best story tellers the world will ever know!!!!
they ar inspired by ramayana
And also met.warlord do you know Mahabharata is ten times the illiad and the Odyssey combined and has every arc and subplot your homer couldn't even have thought
@@sweetanstudioz4480 Is that why the whole world knows of Homer and The Illiad and The Odyssey but not of your Indian fairytales!
@@jeamesbombaymassage6154 you are wrong. Indians got to know the Greek culture after the fall of the Persian Empire from Alexander the Great and were influenced by it in the 4th century
@@sweetanstudioz4480 you are wrong. Indians got to know the Greek culture after the fall of the Persian Empire from Alexander the Great and were influenced by it in the 4th century
I never watched this movie before, but this scene makes me definitely watch it. Great scene. Great actors.
If you like the great of this movie you should at least watch it from the beginning to understand what else has happened before the hero is home.
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@@jamesplunkett8912 And before to it, you must read Homer's Odyssey. The film has many changes, and even it omits both many facts, characters and deities to understand its plot well.
I did read the story by Homer before that. The text book in high school years ago.
@@jamesplunkett8912 And what thinks liked about the book, in contrast to the movie one?
He was the greatest hero in the 20th century in movies!!!
Thanks for this career!!!
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RIP. I grew up on His movies.
Me too!
Did you ever see Kirk in, Lonely are the Brave or The Vikings?
@@GeneralGeorgeS.PattonJr. yes. I was into all of those movies. loved the vikings with Tony Curtis.
Me too.
Anthony Quinn or Kirk Douglas?
They don't make movies like this anymore. Look at the face of "Penelope" when she knows it's Ulysses. It's the best.
yeh. I like it. but totally hate spell-check. proof-reading gets annoying.
In the book, she doesn't know. Not until after the fight...But it's a good idea to make aware now. Text is simply a different medium. It doesn't translate well in visual language. My favorite films from books are the ones that do not follow the book exactly, and take any liberties that allow them to convey the essence and the voice of the book rather than the plot
I was just thinking that and then I found your comments. Atheism took over and destroyed everything I guess if I am not wrong?
Dear lord, what did I say XD This and 1997 one are medicore movies (1997 is little bit better). The only real Odysseus is Bekim Fehmiu.
great movie
I always remembered the thunder strikes and then the revelation of the suitors.... Epic
Greatest Hero of Greek Mythology Ulysses and the one man to play him Legendary Kirk Douglas.
We love 💖💖💖Ulysses the most, but our greatest Hero is Hercules.😁😁😁
Smartest hero.
There are two details here that I think are good changes.
1. In Homer's Odyssey, after Antinous is shot, Eurymachus tries to apologize to Odysseus/Ulysses, offering to repay him for everything the suitors have taken while he was gone. Odysseus refuses the offer and says that nothing can persuade him not to kill them all. This adaptation changes it so that the suitors immediately attack as soon as they realize Ulysses is back. This makes the killing of the suitors more justified, since there was no opportunity to negotiate with them.
2. After the suitors are all slaughtered, in Homer's version Odysseus has 12 serving women who slept with the suitors clean the room before they are all hanged, which seems grossly unfair, to say the least.
This adaptation shows the serving women actually bringing weapons to the suitors and encouraging them to kill Ulysses, so it's more clear that they truly are traitors.
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You mean Homer's Ulysses has been "woked": slaughter now justified because he was anice guy in a bad place...and the Sirens? Typical "flirtacious harlots"? What next, Achilles's friend Patroclus wasn't his lover? The Olymic games weren't a gay pickup event? Ancient Greece was no paradise; it was rough.
Love watching classics films like this one. High end actors, talented directors, amazing scenic perspectives, and detailed to the T designs. Hollywood will never be as great or golden ever again.
This is "Hollywood" as much as you are "Prussian"
In Spartacus, Douglas played the rebellious slave character as humble and meditative. Not so in Ulysses; Douglas played this hero of Homer as an arrogant king, extroverted and even boisterous.
Ulysses (or Odysseus, as the Greeks called him) was being punished by the gods for just such arrogance you pointed out. Kirk Douglas wasn't just an "action star", he was a fine actor capable of great range.
"Can I do worse than you?", damn, that burn is going to leave a mark ...
... well, if they weren't dead.
One of the greatest scenes in movie history.
Gary Ilijevich QP zoo so
Definitely among the greatest "kickass" scenes in movie history!
One of the most satisfying scenes from the whole of world literature.
SlideRulePirate satisfying is the perfect word to describe it.
That's how Homer wrote it. He killed them all with his son's help. Antinoos died first. They teach us the full book in school rapsody by rapsody for a whole year.
RIP Kirk. A one of a kind, both in movies and real life. How many of us men can get to 103 and have made such a mark on the world?
Strings the bow, there's a clap of thunder -- that's straight from the text of Homer as written! Homer would have been a screenwriter for sure if he lived in our era.
Not so. In Homer's Iliad Antioos gets it in the neck while lifting his wineglass. "Did he think of death ?'
.. Penelope never wrote a Dear John letter to Ulysses..
That's what makes a Greek wife different 😂😁..
Yes, she waited and weaved and untangled and re-weaved and untangled her tapestry to buy time for her husband, knowing the great warrior King Oddyseus would return from the Trojan War....at the start only Odysseus's faithful dog, Argos recognised him.........what a great, epic story of love, honor, commitment, courage, loyalty, patriotism and heroism, a story that was born from reality, that only the Greeks could concieve and which has lasted till this very day!
That is why Western Civilisation prospered, on the back of Hellenic culture!
She texted him!
Hoplite Warlord right. Nowadays people divorce all the time. Such indecency.
One of the most spectacular finale by the greatest wanderer !!
One of my favorite movies of all time.
This is the real original movie of Ulyseus and best one.
Absolutely, none of the remakes have ever come close to this one. It's the best.
Would be impossible to do better
Ahahaahaha Folks, I thought so, then I wathced 1968 one with Bekim Fehmiu.
Kenan Yalcinoglu my. .,
@@Lundahlium It's a good movie and Kirk Douglas the best Odysseus ever in cinema. But it could be better. Here they made Kirki the which and Calypso the nymph in one person, and I would like to include the adventure in Aeolus (god of the winds) island.
This was truly a great movie, although it was panned at the time. Ulysses set the tone for the rest of my life. It's haunting beauty and marvelous action scenes made me a true scholar of Homer - the Iliad and the Odyssey. That was over 60 years ago, and this movie still thrills me.
I saw this movie in a double feature with "The Vikings" when I was a kid a long time ago. And I have loved Kirk Douglas ever since. The "double feature" was like a "double header" baseball game and both have become extinct. But when I was a kid, you could see two "features" for the price of one. Movie theatres had to complete with a new invention called "television" that was gaining popularity and they tried all kinds of things.
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" Apollo has taken away our strength !! ".... " How can Apollo take away what you never had? ". Ha lol 😋🤗. My favorite line !!!
first in pride. first in arrogance. You will be the first served today! they don't make films like this anymore.
I love how the scene is played out. The beggar who is laughed at bends the bow that no-one can bend and then fires the arrow through 12 axe heads. Then, the detractors realise who they were laughing at was Ulysses.
And yet only his dog recognised him...what an Epic Story!!
One of the greatest finales in movie history. All plot points are wrapped up in true epic fashion. Ruthless and deeply satisfying at same time. A happy ending only through the blood of traitors and cowards. Long Live Ulysses!
Death to all usurpers!
...And that was when, they realized they'd f****d up.....
@@HopliteWarlord The Iliad and the Odyssey are amazing. The gods and goddesses of Olympus are all in it. Ulysses has Poseidon's wrath and the kind help of clear eyed Athena.
I never knew that this film existed. Yay! Go on big Kirk!
So young and strong. Oh well, if you live to 103, however you look, you’re looking good.
"Spoilers"... The Odyssey is thousands of years old.
What a masterpiece of film editing by Leo Catozzo! 1954 that's incredible,is like a modern movie!!!!!
Man i love that scene. Born in the sixties and grew up watching these classics. To bad most people will never see them or appreciate them
We did and we're passi g it on to our children and they , to theirs
Kudos to the uploader.
Kirk had the best musculature on the screen. I saw this back 1970ish on the late show. It certainly wasn't the the definitive version of the Odyssey, but at the time it more than sufficed.
God bless Kirk Douglas 102 years old wow
@Daniel Colasuonno I don't think Natalie Wood's family share your opinion of Kirk Douglas.
@@dcasey77 what does Natalie Wood have to do with Kirk Douglas
Natalie wood was married to Robert Wagner and guide on a fishing trip with Robert Wagner and Christopher Walken she drowned or someone pushed her
@@danielcolasuonno8311 Google 'Kirk Douglas Natalie Wood'
@@dcasey77 Natalie Wood was married to Robert Wagner when she died what does Kirk Douglas have to do with that explain
this the best I wish this would come to cable it has not been shown in years - great ending here "take my Queen to safety" great
I remember that as a young lad I was absolutely gob smacked when the one eyed giant picked up one of Ulesses's crew & bit him in half. "Hmmm these Greeks are tough.....stringy meat." Wow. That was pretty graphic for those days.
Silvana Mangano (the actress portraying Penelope) is absolutely stunning.
I like the scene where he comes back and only his old dog recognised him ,and some body kicks his begging bowl out of his hands... warning.. bad move tosser
Silvana Mangano has been a very beautyful italian woman,but not really an actress! She was the spouse of an rich italian producer who wanted to have his wife in his movies !
Exquisite beauties, Silvana Mangano and Rosanna podestá
Italian-made with some Hollywood talent, including the cinematographer and some of the (many) writers. Directed by Mario Camerini, whose career went back to the silent era. He directed one of the earliest sword-and-sandal (peplum) films - Maciste Against the Sheik - so he had experience in this sort of thing. However, he doesn't seem to be much of a director of actors. Anthony Quinn does only the obvious sort of epic-y stuff here, as do the other suitors.Silvana Mangano didn't have to do much but look beautifully stoic, or stoically beautiful - she was the wife of one of the producers (Dino De Laurentiis). Douglas is fine, playing to his strength of volcanic pressure just under the surface, then erupting.
I checked this out because the design of some lampposts I see form a similar "tunnel" effect as the
curves of the axes, and I started thinking about this sequence. Thanks to the Internet and You Tube,
here it is. Yay. Now for the sequence with the Cyclops, Polyphemus...
C' est ma scène préférée de cette merveilleuse histoire de l' Odyssée ! Peut être celle qui m' a fait aimer le tir à l' arc !
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They laughed at the old man.... until it was too late to be kind to the old veteran
They made too many mistakes, each punishable by Death
First, they landed in his island and pretended to rob him of his kingdom
Second, they tried to steal his Wife who as clever as him fooled them for years
Third, they mistreated his subjects and servants and lounged freeboard upon his wealth and forcing hospitality of his Queen with unwelcomed demands
Fourth, they plotted to have the fruit of his wife and his love, their son usurped aside and murdered
And last, and most lethal of all, they thought they could outmatch the old veteran of Troy's War, the Man who singlehandedly made it possible through brow not brawn to ultimately conquer that city impossible to be defeated by all war means. Douglas was magnificent in this Epic of Epics films demanding a physical overlord against his odds. Her catatonic acting was not in line to Quinn's and Douglas but they carried the show above just honoring the Master of all bards
Great enterainer, Great actor one of my favourites, loved him and Curtis in Sparticus and Vikings , RIP Kirk ❤
That was the best scene EVER!!!
I saw this film during my school days around 1960 . this is the most admirebal scene implanted in my memory.i have viewed this about 100 times.according to me he is the most admirebal actor in the western cinema.i have seen many films represented by this actor.also he had the opportunity to live beyond 100 years.
That was awesome!! I forgot all about that version from my childhood.
I loved the scene where his old dog recognized him - but was obviously too old to show it
He wagged his tail before he died.
Argues . I named my macho dog after him . And he was Argues which means loyal
Well Armand Asante and Kirk Douglas have lived on different time on movie film. What i love in Armand Asante is when he was asked what the suitors crime? They said we treated your queen with respect, we eat your house but that can be replaced, we never killed anyone.Then King Odyseus replied . The crime is that you try to stel my world , the world which i built with my life , my hands, my wife who bore me my son and for that you will die.......Kirk Douglas memorable scene for me i think was when i remember him disguising as a beggar where the first to recognized him that he already returns was his Dog Percy ..I loved the scene that it really vivids my memory.. I loved this Iliad and Odyssey of Homer novel...
Percy ?? Ha ha . It's ARGUES . I named my dog Argues after seeing the 1950's ULLYSES movie .
@Spiritoflugh8 GREAT NAME. It's in a book known throughout the ages and world .
A dog recognizes his master by scent, not looks.
This movie starred the two leading Italian actresses of the time - Rosanna Podesta and Silvana Mangano.
It was odiseus spirit that brought him back home after the conclusion of the war & after the long adventure cruise complication & he wait for the right moment no important how hard it was for him to jump on the dumb that stealing his property opposing anything that belong to him his kingdom & his beloved wife suffering of all these years waiting straightforward for him to come back which as I said before he jumped on them & cleared up the situation for once & for all
My Junior high school played this film for us and no one was goofing off as usual but quiet watching and the bus bell went off but everyone stayed till we seen this amazing ending. I bought the dvd 10 years ago .
I haven’t watched this movie in over 40 years but I’ll never forget that scene.
Unreal how good this movie is
Kirk Douglas was in 3 great hero films --- Ulysses, The Vikings, and Spartacus.
Which one is best??? They are all great. The dancing on the oars he did in the Vikings he ad libbed.
I feel the Same...I guess Spartacus had the most money
My brother likes him in 20,000 leagues beneath the sea . Singing a sailor song
Sixty four years later and Ulysses is still alive!
RIP and I am one of the old farts who saw Ulysses when it opened.
Me too. I was 12 or 13 at the time. It made me a lifelong Homer devotee.
Mdebacle Me too.
You're not old. You would be old if you were around when Homer wrote the story.
Dude was 37 during filming. And still kicking today. Crazy.
Here was a movie hero--WHEN COMES SUCH ANOTHER?
Amazing that he uses a simple pinch of the thumb and forefinger to pluck the bow that no one can bend. They could have at least taught him the three finger method.
the trick was that they used the traditional hold to pull the string as hard as they could to the bow ridge, when the string will never stretch as only the bow will bend. BUT, in doing so their own fingers take space for the string to come closer to bow. He simply scooped the string hole in his palm and with the tip of his finger tucked in the bow the loop. That's a very calculated measure only a methodical mind as Ulysses could painstakingly come up himself. His shot through the axes rings was no less telling of such mind that worked like a precision clockmaker. And the rest cool hand and sober wits against so many enemies when it comes to him, is proverbial of a man who's a veteran of much worse these pencil pushers ever seen or stand around such hells as he did and overcame victorious where many failed. The most gifted of Hellenes.
Remember seeing this in the movies back then, a real Classic. After seeing this the craze was making a bow like Ulysses.
3:05- alot grittier than his role of Spartacus
Two men with whom you DO NOT mess: Odysseus (Ulysses)...and Kirk Douglas!
I loved this movie when I was a kid.
I wouldn't hang around if my old man is slaughtering everyone!
Wimp
You would if your name is Telemacus!
you didn't notice telemacus helping his father kill the suitors? .he had as much cause to hate them as his parents.
Kirk Douglas should of got an academy award for best actor
im glad i was able to watch this clip. my father used to tell me this story when i was a kid and until now i could still remember the story. hope they can have a remake for this❤️
Same. Except no one appears to be interested in ancient history and mythology anymore.
@@acdragonrider : with the technology of today, those myths and legends could be made into quite wonderful films. I really miss these great epic films, a lot!
Don't forget to watch the other, more modern, version of this, also on U Tube. It's long but pretty good and almost sticks to the original plot. Odysseus has always been my ideal.
A good, yes, I saw the series with Armand Assante as Ulysses, I guess, the final scene was filmed with brutal realism that took me to the edge of my seat.
Homero was a genius!
Nah , without Kirk I'll pass but thanks anyway.
This is an old movie - so awesome to see Kirk Douglas young and strong! He died in February of this year 2020 - at age 103. RIP Mr. Douglas - you were always a fascinating and beautiful man - I will remember you this way.
Edit: I had his age at 104. My bad.
“ And Odysseus threw off his rag’s “
Threw off his rag's what? What did his rag possess that Odysseus threw off?
Slappy His disguise of being an old beggar
Italian movie industry produced some real pearls over the decades this was one of the many . God bless Italian genius , pinnacle of western culture .
It reminds me of my Literature subject in High school. ..PENELOPE is really an epitome of FAITHFULNESS. ..I LIKE the story very much!
Exactly right. And in Homer, Penelope's faithfulness is strongly contrasted with the unfaithfulness of Clytemnestra', Agamemnon's wife, who not only cheats on him but murders him with the aid of her lover when he returns from Troy. Mind you, Agamemnon not only fooled around himself in Troy, but claims Achilles' "prize", one of the women captured by the Acheans, thus setting up the quarrel which is the subject of the "Iliad".
@@jennytawler2653 Clytemnestra and Egidus kill Agam because he sacrificed his and Clyt's young daughter for faithful winds as they left for Ilion/Troy. Clyt and Egidus are then murdered in their bath by her and Agam.'s own son, Oreste. Talk about family night.
Yeah they used to show this on TV back in the 60's and 70's. Great movie.
One of the finest scenes ever made in any Hollywood movie...I really like it.
I have always thought that Ulysses' behaviour was way over the top in this scene. No self control.
Marvelous & excellent. Love to all. Thanks
My All time favorite movie. Kirk Douglas. Anthony Quinn
Kirk Douglas, awesome actor. Forever in my heart ♥️ 😢 Rip in God arms 🙏
Kirk Douglas was my Father's favorite actor..One of the best of the best.
"I never make a present of a man's life a second time."
I've always loved that line.
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Only he who is without sin may bend the bow!
A corny film sometimes, but this scene is taken right from Homer (that TV version from 1997 got this scene very wrong). I have long thought it the most dramatic moment in literature, when he strings the bow, and the suitors suddenly think "Oh crap, we're done for. . . "
+edriant1916 Really? I thought the 1997 version did it terrific. The moment where he passes the test and his disguise is removed, and all the suitors see who he is. I thought it was much more dramatic. Though I admit the suitors here put up much more of a fight.
In the 1997 version I remember Odysseus telling Telemachus "Now is the time for your anger" and a moment later Telemachus sticks a spear through Antinous. Homer, and Kirk Douglas' film, have Odysseus sending an arrow through Antinous' neck. It may seem a minor difference, but I was disappointed.
This is certainly much closer to Homer but it’s still far off in a very important aspect - in Homer, Penelope does NOT witness the slaughter of the Suitors, which sets things up for a very important scene, where Penelope « tests » Odyseseus (Ulysses) and he proves who he is, which leads Penelope to go straight to bed with him.
Sometimes things like this really happen in far away places of a different time and people.
It could be. Greek heroes from that era are somewhere between legend and history. They found the real ruins of Agamemnon's (Mycenae) and Nestor's (Pylos) palaces who was his companions in Troy's war.
The first arrow was to go through the throat of Antinous as he raised a golden cup of wine to his lips . After the slaughter the floor was covered in “ filth “ blood and gore . Odysseus spred sulphur over the floor and set it ablaze and purified his great hall .
Any Idea, where I can find the rest of this wonderful movie! Regards
Well have your papa. Buy it.or mama.
This movie was made close enough in time to when people still understood how axes worked. I've seen other, later versions where the arrow was fired through a ring at the end of the ax handle or through an ornamental hole in the axe head, even bursting through solid axe heads. People who regularly used axes understood what it meant to shoot an arrow through the hole in an axe.
I watched this in a cinema, in Chile. It was dubbed to Italian for some reason. For many years I believed Kirk Douglas could speak Italian. 🤣
Hahahaha 🤣
Well Maria, Kirk Douglas did speak fluent French. I bet he knew some Italian too, although, he was not fluent.
If anybody did this today, there would be talk about psycho killers and banning spears and arrows.
She would have recognized his voice!
I have no idea how this movie escaped my notice.
One of the first and best "Spear and Sandal" films; commonly called "Peplums". They became standard movie fare at the Saturday Matinee of the 50's and 60s'.
Jeez wiz. That Kirk Douglas must have muscles on top of muscles
who is the otherctor?
When will they ever show one of the best pictures ever made like this iwould love to see this again im 75 and love it
My dad seen this movie and his 77 years old.
then later Kirk out draws Quinn in "Last Train From Gun Hill "
do you think youd be able to upload, or find, the entire movie? if you can find it, can you send to to me?
It's an amazing movie,n that the entire affair shown, belongs to the land of Socrates,Plato n Aristotle! Hopefully,it does still spellbound, the viewers of 21st Century! Memorable!Kudos to Kirk! Remarkable Post!
This is pretty much right out of Homer. All the suitors fail, Odysseus in disguise asks to make the attempt, he is roundly ridiculed (Homer has him pelted with garbage at this point). Effortlessly he strings the bow, all are struck silent, "oh crap, we're done for." most dramatic moment in literature.
Hiding a great chin but even greater with a beard, the classic looks of this great actor ,and also a great co star!!!!❤
I wanted movies like this to come back
First in Pride First in Arrogance, you will be the First served today. Classic line