The success and popularity of this film are due to several causes. The chief of them:

1 - The writers' drawing of the text of the story from the scholars of history. This work took several months, spent in gathering the information needed for the writing of the story.

2 - The filming of the picture in its entirety in Italy instead of Hollywood, where the events of the story took place; this cost the Warner company, holder of the rights, the expenditure of millions of dollars to that end.

3 - And finally, let us not forget to praise the skill of the actors in mastering the roles entrusted to them; they succeeded so

After the city was sacked, the hour of farewell came

thoroughly that the spectator fancies he is truly living twenty centuries ago.

The film's two stars, Rossana Podestà and Jacques Sernas, and all who took part in it joined their efforts to bring the story out in this splendor. As for the color photography, recourse had to be had to the CinemaScope process; the colors came out in the utmost harmony and provided "Paris" the atmosphere befitting the love of "Helen" — that sweeping love for whose sake a savage war raged for ten years, without truce... In the film "Helen" has been given a Latin cast, and "Paris" the features of an intelligent, thoughtful young man...

Paris... he named her "Aphrodite,"

for to his eye she seemed a daughter of the sea!