Ulysses

This adequate and fairly entertaining version of Homer's Odyssey stars Douglas as the eponymous bearded hero who takes a slow route home from the Trojan War. The film opens with Quinn and other suitors trying to convince Douglas' wife, Mangano, that her long-missing husband is dead and that she must pick one of them as a replacement. Meanwhile, the amnesiac Douglas washes up on a beach on the island of Phaeacia. He is nursed back to health by a princess, Podesta, who falls in love with him, but Douglas spends most of his time staring out at the sea, trying to remember. In flashbacks he remembers killing the cyclops, lashing himself to the mast of his ship to...