The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.1/10   

Director:

Nathan Juran

Guionista:

Ken Kolb (written by)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

23 diciembre 1958 (USA)

Género:

Familia | Fantasía | Acción | Aventura

Frase comercial:

8th Wonder of the Screen!

Plot:

When a princess is shrunken by an evil wizard, Sinbad must undertake a quest to an island of monsters to cure her and prevent a war.

Plot Keywords:

Island | Princess | Magic | Magic Lamp | Sinbad

Premios:

1 win & 1 nomination

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Age has hardly dimmed the excitement, spectacle and wonder of this fantasy classic

Reparto

Kerwin Mathews	...	Sinbad
Kathryn Grant	...	Princess Parisa
Richard Eyer	...	Barani - the Genie
Torin Thatcher	...	Sokurah the Magician
Alec Mango	...	Caliph
Danny Green	...	Karim
Harold Kasket	...	Sultan
Alfred Brown	...	Harufa
Nana DeHerrera	...	Sadi (as Nana de Herrera)
Nino Falanga	...	Gaunt Sailor
Luis Guedes	...	Crewman
Virgilio Teixeira	...	Ali

También conocida como:

Simbad y la princesa (Spain) [es]

Duración:

88 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Clasificación:

Canada:G (Ontario) | UK:U | Australia:G | Australia:PG (DVD rating) | Ireland:PG | Finland:K-16 | USA:G (1975) | West Germany:12 | Sweden:15

Locaciones de Filmación:

Caves of Arta, Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain

Compañía:

Morningside Productions

Trivialidades:

A soundtrack album of Bernard Herrmann's score was released on Colpix, Columbia's record label. In later years it would become one of the most sought-after albums by soundtrack collectors.

Errores:

Errores Reales: As the crew arrives on the island, they see a wooden cage with a skeleton hanging inside. In reality, the bones would fall apart as the body dried out. In the scene, the wires holding the bones together are clearly seen.

Citas:

Sokurah the Magician: Kill! Kill him!

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in Jason and the Argonauts: An Interview with Ray Harryhausen (1995) (V)

Age has hardly dimmed the excitement, spectacle and wonder of this fantasy classic

This truly action packed fantasy is as fun nearly 50 on from the time of it's making. Out of the films that were produced by Charles H. Schneer and featured special effects by Ray Harryhausen, Jason And The Argonauts is usually named as the best [certainly that was the film where Harryhausen perfected his techniques],but Sinbad is not far behind. It's far simpler but provides just as much entertainment. Of course some of the dialogue is a little hokey, but who watches films like this for their dialogue? Dialogue here exists simply to help propel the plot forward at as fast a pace as possible.

The amount of action scenes crammed into this less-then-90 min. film is astounding, and despite this the film still retains a delightful sense of wonder, as one wonders what fantastic creation will show up next. Yes, some of the matt work looks a bit poor ,and the creatures are a little jerky, but the design and execution of the snake woman, cyclopes, rocs, dragon etc. is still astounding for the time, and some sequences, such as the battle with the the first cyclops and the duel with the skeleton, are still very exciting.

Criticisms of the acting may be partially justified, but Torin Thatcher is as menacing a villain as one can wish for, and of course there's also Bernard Herrmann's extremely inventive score. Schneer and Harryhausen would later make two further Sinbad films, and there was a semi- remake several years later, Jack The Giant Killer. All three are fun, but none have the simple purity of this classic adventure.