Our only respite, a truce to burn our dead.
4 seconds sound clip from the Helen of Troy (1956) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:19:16.346 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- I'll meet you in Elysium where an age of years is just a wink of time.
- You charter a ship. I'll take the flying horse, Pegasus.
- Oh, goddess come to Earth, make me immortal with your kiss and we'll live on nectar and ambrosia.
- But I'm not sure I like being so ethereal.
- Nor I.
- How many years, fellow Trojans, shall we suffer?
- Our only respite, a truce to burn our dead.
- The holiday of a Troy that once knew happy times.
- Must the Trojans always set their funeral pyre so near this house?
- How long will they accuse me?
- They lost many loved ones, my lady.
- Lulled by the promises of peace forever. I, for one, believe we might have had that peace...
[...]
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Actors: Rossana Podestà (Helen of Troy), Jacques Sernas (Paris of Troy), Sir Cedric Hardwicke (Priam), Stanley Baker (Achilles), Niall MacGinnis (Menelaus), Robert Douglas (Agamemnon), Janette Scott (Cassandra), Harry Andrews (Hector of Troy)
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