Far from beautiful, seldom even witty, The Private Life of Helen of Troy manages to enrapture most of the people who watch it by its simple and consistent formula.

| Jan 11, 2022

Those who have read the book will not like the screen play; those who have not will find it amusing.

| Jan 8, 2021

The picture is well produced, and there are some fine mob scenes in it.

| Jan 8, 2021

Half-way amusing, sometimes boring.

| Jan 5, 2021

[The Private Life of Helen of Troy] is a comic-strip version of modern marriage set against a background supposed to represent ancient Sparta and Troy. The incongruity furnishes amusement for about five minutes.

| Jan 5, 2021

For the devout student of history the only advice possible is to stay away. The shock would be too great!

| Jan 5, 2021

Beautiful and really imaginative settings surround an intrigue as localised as a mayoral election.

| Jan 5, 2021

[The Private Life of Helen of Troy] should cause dancing in the streets, and old men to throw away their canes.

| Jan 5, 2021

But the entry of the wooden horse into Troy and the night attack of the Greeks, are another matter. These have a splendour which makes us wish the tale were equally picturesque.

| Jan 5, 2021

Delightful humor pervades the entire production of The Private Life of Helen of Troy.

| Jan 5, 2021

Personally, I found The Private Life of Helen cf Troy as a whole very enjoyable, sometimes brilliantly humorous, and for a space in the middle of the production rather dull. The dull part doesn't seem to affect the interesting results of novelty, however.

| Jan 5, 2021

Maria Corda makes a fascinating and credible Helen. Lewis Stone's Menelaus is a knockout.

| Jan 5, 2021

In throwing out everything [from the book] except the title the picture makers should have had a better story to take its place -- but they didn't.

| Jan 5, 2021

The Private Life of Helen of Troy is just about the most delightful thing you are going to see this winter. You are going to laugh loud and long at this one, and after you get home and are busy taking off your galoshes you are going to laugh louder.

| Jan 5, 2021

It is burlesque, satire and comedy, enacted in massive settings that cost a fortune. The greatest individual triumph is that of the hitherto unknown Miss Maria Korda.

| Jan 5, 2021

Alexander Korda failed to rise to the lighter satirical touches. Yet it is going to rank with the distinct screen achievements of the year. A picture distinctly worth while.

| Jan 5, 2021

Add to this account that Helen of Troy has been most beautifully mounted and that the running fire of subtitles... are nevertheless amusing, and you can but deduce that the film... should offer you a rather pleasant 90 minutes of your time.

| Jul 30, 2020

Lovely tableaux of diaphanous creatures wafting gossamer garments to the night wind; stalwarts in coats of mail; a mammoth horse dwarfing an entire army into crawling atoms -- spectacles of this kind constantly add pictorial glamor to the plot.

| Jul 28, 2020

The modern twists and touches make Troy your own town and its characters people you will recognize in some affair or other.

| Jul 28, 2020

Clever situations, a knockout set of titles by Gerald C. Duffy and Casey Robertson -- in general, a darned good piece of entertainment.

| Jul 28, 2020