The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad Movie Review

Ray Harryhausen works his stop-motion animation magic in what may be the first color film of its type. Sinbad (Kerwin Mathews) decides that his thumb-size girlfriend, Princess Parisa (Kathryn Grant), would be easier to love if normal size. So off he goes to search for the egg of a Roc, which will reverse the spell cast by the evil magician Sokurah (Torin Thatcher). On the Isle of Colossa, the only place them Roc things hang, Parisa frees a genie-of-the-lamp to help on the quest. On the way, Sinbad and crew must battle some of Harryhausen's most memorable and likable creations: a two-headed Roc, a man-eating cyclops, a fire-breathing dragon, and most impressively, a sword-fighting skeleton brought to life by Sokurah. This is the one that really got Harryhausen rolling on his fantasy film career, a career that would go on through his last film Clash of the Titans. One of Bernard Herrmann's finest scores; during the duel with the skeleton, if you listen you can hear the bones.

1958 (G) 94m/C Kerwin Mathews, Kathryn Grant, Torin Thatcher, Richard Eyer; D: Nathan (Hertz) Juran; W: Kenneth Kolb; M: Bernard Herrmann. VHS, Beta, LV COL, MLB, CCB