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	María Corda. Photograph: Silent Era image collection.

Cast: Maria Corda (María Corda) [Helen of Troy], Lewis Stone [Menelaus], Ricardo Cortez [Paris], George Fawcett [Eteoneus], Alice White [Adraste], Gordon Elliott (Bill Elliott) [Telemachus], Tom O’Brien [Ulysses], Bert Sprotte (Bertholde Sprotte) [Achilles], Mario Carillo [Ajax], Charles Puffy (Károly Huszár) [Malapokitoratoreadetos], George Kotsonaros [Hector], Constantin Romanoff [Aeneas], Emilio Borgato [Sarpedon], Alice Adair [Aphrodite], Helen Fairweather [Athena], Virginia Thomas [Hera], Gus Partos (Gusztáv Pártos) [a nobleman], Clifford Ingram [a chariot driver], Agostino Borgato, Sonia Karlov, Inez Marion, Jack Stambaugh, John Westwood

First National Pictures, Incorporated, production; distributed by First National Pictures, Incorporated [A First National Picture]. / Produced by Carey Wilson. Executive producer, Richard A. Rowland. Scenario by Carey Wilson, from an adaptation by Carey Wilson of the play The Private Life of Helen of Troy by John Erskine and the play The Road to Rome by Robert E. Sherwood. Art direction by Horace Jackson. Costume design by Max Rée. Special engineering effects by Ralph Hammaras. Cinematography by Lee Garmes and Sid Hickox (Sydney Hickox). Stills photography by Harold Dean Carsey and James Doolittle. Film editor, Harold Young. Intertitles written by Gerald Duffy (Gerald C. Duffy), Ralph Spence and Casey Robinson. Musical settings (music score) by Carl Edouarde. Presented by Richard A. Rowland. / © 23 December 1927 by First National Pictures, Incorporated [LP24793]. Premiered 9 December 1927 in New York, New York. Released 8 January 1928. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Academy Award Honorable Mention for Title Writing. / Silent film.

Comedy: Historical: Romance.

Synopsis: [The Moving Picture World, 17 December 1927, page 23] Queen Helen of Troy, piqued by her husband’s lack of interest in her, elopes with Paris to Sparta. Menelaus, her husband, egged on by his henchman, starts a war with Paris, finally effecting the return of Helen. The time-honored custom demands that he have the pleasure of killing her, but her seductive loveliness restrains him. And so at the end of the story, we find Helen engaging in a new flirtation with the Prince of Ithaca.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Synchronized sound film

Listing updated: 13 October 2023.

References: Perry-British p. 332 : Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb; Website-IMDb.