La guerra di Troia, internationally released as The Trojan Horse and The Wooden Horse of Troy, is a 1961 Italian historical drama film set in the tenth and final year of the Trojan War. The film focuses primarily on the exploits of the Trojan hero Aeneas during this time. The film was directed by Giorgio Ferroni and starred Steve Reeves as Aeneas and John Drew Barrymore as Odysseus.

In 2004 it was restored and shown as part of the retrospective "Storia Segreta del Cinema Italiano: Italian Kings of the Bs" at the 61st Venice International Film Festival.[1]

Cast

Steve Reeves as Aeneas
Juliette Mayniel as Creusa
John Drew Barrymore as Odysseus
Edy Vessel as Helen
Lidia Alfonsi as Cassandra
Warner Bentivegna as Paris
Luciana Angiolillo as Andromache
Arturo Dominici as Achilles
Mimmo Palmara as Ajax
Nerio Bernardi as Agamemnon
Nando Tamberlani as Menelaus
Carlo Tamberlani as Priam

Production

The battle scenes were shot in Yugoslavia.[2] May scenes were reused in the same director's 1964 film The Lion of Thebes.
Biography

Hughes, Howard (2011). Cinema Italiano - The Complete Guide From Classics To Cult. London - New York: I.B.Tauris. ISBN 978-1-84885-608-0.

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