A waste of 90 minutes of my life

In truth, any opportunity to see the film on the big screen is welcome.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

Mario Camerini's "Ulisse" ("Ulysses" in English) is a fun romp, with Kirk Douglas as the Greek warrior who spends years trying to return to Ithaca after participating in the destruction of Troy. A lot of the movie is corny, but no one watches these movies expecting the sort of material that you'd see in a Stanley Kubrick movie.Probably the greatest adaptation of "The Odyssey" is the Coen brothers' "O Brother, Where Art Thou?", starring George Clooney, John Turturro and Tim Blake Nelson as escaped convicts in Depression-era Mississippi (it has one of the greatest soundtracks ever). Watching this version, I kept picturing the characters from the Coens' movie.All in all, this movie definitely hits a Homer!

for me, "Ulysses" is a slide of childhood. and this does the things complicated and easy. easy because I can not imagine an alternative actor in the role of Ulysses except Kirk Douglas. because , for my inner child, Silvana Mangano is the perfect Penelope and Franco Interlenghi the right Telemach. the scene of the meet with Polyphem , the revenge against suitors, the song of mermaids and the courage are clothes for the images of Homer. so, I could not say if it is a decent film or a bad one. only , I admit, it is a slice from my childhood. so, unique.

I too first saw this movie when I was in my very early teens and still at school, but unlike my movie buff friend who wrote the first comment, I enjoyed this film when I saw it again many years later and still do some half a century after the first time.Kirk Douglas and Anthony Quinn are excellent in their lead roles as one can imagine by their chequered careers, nevertheless I find Rossana Podesta' and Silvana Mangano very good on the eyes but rather pedestrian in their interpretations of the "forgotten women". I doubt a man like Ulysses would fall for such a verveless Circe.Young Franco Interlenghi plays a suitable youthful Telemachus. The scenes with Polyphemus are good and the overall photography quite stunning. The final scenes when Ulysses rids his house of the unwanted suitors is very violent and gory but well performed. Unfortunately the English dialogue is dubbed and at times this is quite obvious, but after all this was an Italian production (I first saw it in the original language with my late father).

I have always been a fan of Kirk Douglas, AND, of Homer's two books "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey".So when I saw this film it was, for me, what they call a "two-fer" or two for the price of one.The scenes with Polyphemus still impress me, and yes the comments about the wine not really being wine ( no time to ferment) are understandable, but, they don't really diminish the scene. (Hey, it's the movies).Another thing about ANY of these Italian movies, from this one to the traditional "Hercules" movies, is where do they find all those GORGEOUS women?. YIKES!!.I also love the scenes between the witch Circe, and Ulysses, there is a faint green glow the lighting designer bathes Circe with, to make her seem more "spooky".All in all this is a great movie for those who like Greco-Roman mythology, or Italian sword and sandal films, or even if you are a big Kirk Douglas fan!. BTW, look for a young Anthony Quinn, and remember that these two men would join up again later in "Lust for Life".So sit back and enjoy a 2500 year old story that seems as fresh and exciting as any story you see today, maybe even more so!. Pssst sorry NO GCI!