Ulysses (1954)
Directed by Mario Camerini
A retelling of Homer's The Odyssey, focusing on Ulysses's ten-year journey home to Ithaca following the Trojan War, where he faces various mythical challenges while his wife Penelope fends off suitors.
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What critics compared Ulysses to
It's enough to make you want to rent the old Kirk Douglas-starring "Ulysses" to compare and contrast plot points and adaptation styles.
Feature films based on or inspired by Homer’s the Odyssey include Mario Camerini’s Ulysses (1954), starring Kirk Douglas…
Previous attempts to grapple with Homer’s epic veered into schlocky melodrama (Ulysses in 1954), artsy meditation (The Return in 2024) or comic metaphor O Brother, Where Art Thou? in 2000).
It is also, of course, a film that is in love with the cinema, and those who know and appreciate film history will have a particularly meaningful experience watching the various films that unspool in the little theater, from the neorealist masterpiece Rome, Open City (1945), to Hollywood sword-and-sandal schlock like Ulysses (1954).