Ulysses ~ Starring: Kirk Douglas and Anthony Quinn [So. Korean IMPORT / NTSC - ALL REGIONS]
by Mario Camerini
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Actor: Anthony Quinn, Kirk DouglasDirector: Mario Camerini
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language); Spanish (Published)
Format: Color, Full Screen, Import, NTSC, Subtitled
Running Time: 102 minutes
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: South Korea
DVD Reviews of Ulysses ~ Starring: Kirk Douglas and Anthony Quinn [So. Korean IMPORT / NTSC - ALL REGIONS]
DVD Review: English subtitles, please.
Summary: 4 Stars
I know this is a Korean product, but English subtitles would have made this a 5-star item for me because it includes the Italian soundtrack. I'm one who prefers subtitles in foreign films, because I like hearing the actor's real voices. The english dubbing in this stinks: sounds like they did it in someones' bathroom.
In Italian, the discussion between Penelope and the "beggar" is much more effective because you can hear all the subtleties the actress put into her lines as she expresses her despair. She actually has a very nice voice. In the Italian soundtrack, you also hear the breeze in the courtyard while Ulysses is saying hello to his old dog Argus. Nearly all the background atmospherics are lost in the english dub: The ocean sounds like someone swishing water in the bathtub.
Time for a remastering job...........
DVD Review: Ulysses
Summary: 5 Stars
I think that all the old movie with the god old actor as Kirk douglas
are more better than the new movie. I don't think they act very well.
And this movie have I wanted for many years.
DVD Review: Ulysses A long time coming
Summary: 4 Stars
I remember seeing it as a kid (several times) Although it lacks the sophistication of todays epics its still a lot of fun. They do actual special effects,no c g crap the picture although not perfect looksfine.The only drawback I can find is that there are no English subtitles for the original Italion (only South Korean) So you have to settle for the Dubbed English. You can't beat this version for the price.DVD Review: Quite Entertaining!
Summary: 4 Stars
According to Homer, Ulysses is king of Ithaca, and father, by his wife, Penelope, of Telemachus...
Homer portrays Ulysses as a man of outstanding wisdom, eloquence, resourcefulness, courage and endurance...
In the Iliad, Ulysses appears as the man best fitted to cope with crises in personal relations among the Greeks and his bravery and skill in fighting were demonstrated repeatedly...
Ulysses wanderings and the recovery of his house and kingdom are the central theme of our film, which also relates how he accomplishes the capture of Troy by means of the wooden horse...
The motion picture, fill in the gaps with flashbacks, describes Ulysses' wanderings between Troy and Ithaca... As a troubled man, Ulysses spends much time at the shore trying to remember his past...
He encounters Polyphemus, the Cyclops, son of Poseidon... He escapes from his cave by getting him drunk and running a ram into his eye...
Shipwrecked, his men gone, his memory lost, he is discovered by a beautiful young princess Nausicca (Rossana Podesta) who immediately falls in love with him... Ulysses defeats the champion wrestler of Phaeacia in a public exhibition, but remains distant trying to recall his past...
He then encounters the Sirens whose songs lure sailors to their death... Plugging the ears of his men with wax, he has himself tied to the mast with ropes so that he can hear their call...
Ulysses reaches the island of the enchantress Circe who casts her spell on him... Taking on the appearance of his wife Penelope, she held him captive and turned his crew into swine, but fails to keep him in her company...
After almost l0 years, Ulysses at last arrived in Ithaca, where his wife, Penelope, and son, Telemachus, had been struggling to maintain their authority during his prolonged absence...
Kirk Douglas plays, with sensitivity, Ulysses, "the man of many turns" who had many opportunities of displaying his talent for ruses and deceptions; but at the same time, his courage and loyalty..
The full-figured Silvana Mangano plays a double role: Penelope, the faithful wife and Circe, the sorceress...
Anthony Quinn is the arrogant Antinous, the most persistent of Penelope's suitors, hanging around the palace with a group of vicious noblemen, trying to persuade the lovely queen that Ulysses is dead and that she should choose one of them as her next husband..
With the elements of an Italian epic adventure tale photographed in Technicolor, the film is quite entertaining in its attempts to translate episodes of Homer's Odyssey...
DVD Review: Quality Campy Epic.
Summary: 4 Stars
I was pleasantly surprised at the quality of this classic foreign film. Although the dialogue was dubbed in in English after filming; Kirk Douglas and Anthony Quinn's voices are used for their own parts, so you almost forget this fact while enjoying the action. Both men act up a storm and the woman who plays Penelope is sympathetic and sexy in her duel part as the witch Circe. The special effects are primitive but believable in a campy "Batman" style. The voice of the Cyclops is wonderful and his eye even moves in its socket! The cimamatic tension as Odysseus and his men stomp the grapes in the giant's cave is truly infectious. The color and picture quality of this Korean print is excellent and the sound is good. It's well worth the low price to relive the memories of this classic film which was often shown on television by local UHF stations back in the '70's.
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