It's films like Helen of Troy that vindicate my love of lavish historical epics. Don't let the fact that this was originally made for television fool you: this is feature-film quality in every way, and in fact I found Helen of Troy to be quite a bit...read the complete Helen of Troy (1956) review at DVD Talk (Holly E. Ordway)
It’s a complex story with many interchangeable parts that I shan’t go into length about, but the basic story follows the birth of Paris, who is foreseen to bring about the fall of Troy. Ordered he be destroyed, he is taken to a mountain and abandoned....read the complete Helen of Troy (1956) review at DVD Net (Jules Faber)