The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
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Short description
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad follows the sailor Sinbad as he sets out to undo a spell cast on his fiancée, Princess Parisa. The magician Sokurah has reduced her to miniature size, and the only cure lies on the island of Colossa, where a piece of the shell of a giant two-headed bird is needed. Reaching it means confronting a man-eating cyclops, a fire-breathing dragon and a sword-wielding skeleton, while Sokurah pursues his own aim of recovering a magic lamp and its genie. Directed by Nathan H. Juran, the film followed his 20 Million Miles to Earth and arrived the same year as Attack of the 50 Foot Woman. Ken Kolb wrote the screenplay, and Charles H. Schneer produced for Columbia Pictures and Morningside Productions.
Kerwin Mathews plays Sinbad, with Kathryn Grant as Princess Parisa and Torin Thatcher as the magician. Richard Eyer appears as Barani the Genie, alongside Alec Mango as the Caliph and Danny Green as Karim. Made during the heyday of stop-motion fantasy adventure, the 88-minute film is built around its creature sequences rather than its dialogue.
Reception divides sharply by audience. On IMDb it holds 5.7/10 from 183 votes, while on TMDB it stands at 6.9/10 from 330 votes. A film critics' rating of 7.7/10 from 16 reviews is notably higher than either audience figure, suggesting critics have rated the film more warmly than the viewer scores indicate.
What's left behind the scenes
- The cyclops was given the legs of a satyr so that the audience would not think it was simply an actor in a costume.
- As part of a cost-cutting effort, Richard Ayer did not travel to Spain, where the majority of the filming took place. A stunt double was used for the location shots. As for Ayer, all of his scenes were filmed in less than three weeks at a studio in Los Angeles, for which he was paid $600 a day. Catherine Grant was the only other actor appearing with him in these scenes. Ayer later expressed continuous regret that he never made it to the location shoots in Spain, although he was generally pleased with his performance in the role.
- The film was re-released in Soviet cinemas in 1977 and attracted an audience of 37.8 million. In total, it was seen by 70.1 million viewers in the USSR across two releases.
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