Ulysses and the Giant Polyphemus

An early horror treatment of the hero's encounter with the one-eyed man-eating Cyclops.

Cast

Georges Méliès

as Ulysses (uncredited)

Reviews

CinemaSerf

This isn't quite how Homer wrote his epic as Georges Méliès uses a little creative licence to tell us of Ulysses, returning from the Trojan war, being lured onto the island of the temptress Calypso where he encounters not just a collection of serenading nymphs but also the legendary cyclops Polyphem...

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