The Golden Voyage of Sinbad

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THE GOLDEN VOYAGE OF SINBAD is a 105-minute movie. The movie begins with some fine cinematography, and we see the colorful billowing sails of Sinbad's ship, and men working, from various angles. As an omen of sorts, we see a close-up of the bowsprit (she becomes alive, later on). The movie takes place at sea, on land in Arabia, and also in an island location comprising an imaginary melange of Aztec Mexico, England (there is a miniature Stonehenge), and India. There are a few moments of Indian music (sitars). The main characters are Captain Sinbad (good) and Prince Koura (evil). The plot is as follows. A flying animal drops a gold instrument on Captain Sinbad's ship. Captain Sinbad brings the gold instrument to one of his friends, who determines that it is part of a metal puzzle. The goal of the Sinbad then is to find the remaining pieces of the metal puzzle. In one scene, we see how the fitting together of the pieces of the metal puzzle creates a map, and the map can be used to find an island where there is a fountain of youth. Overall, the story hangs together fairly well.SPECIAL EFFECTS. A flying creature that looks like a purple bat is actually a tiny flying primate. In a lengthy episode occurring on Sinbad's ship, the bowsprit (the wooden lady mounted on the front of the boat) comes alive, and steals Sinbad's paper map. The sound-effects of the creaking wooden statue, moving about, are amusing. After stealing the paper map, the lady floats towards Prince Koura's boat, and Prince Koura gets the map. The wooden lady scene was unexpectedly spectacular, and convincing. It was like the stone boulders that come alive in GALAXY QUEST, and turn into a walking stone man who goes after actor Tim Allen. Also, in GOLDEN VOYAGE OF SINDBAD is a spectacular scene with a 6-armed goddess. The 6-armed goddess scene is quite spectacular. Towards the end of the movie, there is a horse with the head of a cyclops. Ordinarily, this creature would be considered to be scary and unique and interesting. But the horse with the cyclops head has a stupid-looking haircut.Near the beginning of the movie, a girl appears out of thin air, and hovers in the middle of the screen. Then, Captain Sinbad has some bad dreams, which consist of plenty of double-exposures on the movie print. I would not have expected such a cheap special effect, after seeing all of the miracles from the first of the Sinbad films, the spectacular SEVENTH VOYAGE OF SINBAD. Even the most amateur photographer will know that the girl in the air, and the dream sequences, are plain double exposures.A slave girl (Caroline Munro) is in many scenes. She serves as a sort of "eye candy" to prevent male viewers from becoming bored. Caroline Munro is quite puffy. But she does not ring true, as she in no way appears Arabic or Persian. There is no shortage of beautiful Arabic women or Persian woman, and so there is no excuse for choosing Caroline Munro for this movie. Caroline Munro looks just like Grace Slick, singer with the legendary Jefferson Airplane. In GOLDEN AGE OF SINBAD, Caroline Munro has hair just like singer Joan Baez. In other words, she looks like an archetypical mid-1960s hippie chick. Another actor (Kurt Christian), a young man, plays her counterpart. He is dark-complected, and is more believable for this movie. He also serves as a source of light comedy in this movie. The handsome gentleman is known for his laziness, but good-naturedness, and his courage develops somewhat during the course of this adventure. Surprisingly, Caroline Munro and Kurt Christian never interact with each other, even though they are the only characters in this movie in their early 20s.The Arabic street scenes are colorful, well-populated, and convincing. One of the most excellent, and most convincingly developed parts of this film, is Captain Sinbad's attempts at escaping from a temple, by propelling a rope (connected to a metal rod) out of a chimney hole above. This was a great scene. A couple of other parts in this movie do not ring true. At one cliff hanger, Captain Sinbad is about to get his throat slit by a tribe of green-skinned cave dwellers. This appears to be a cliff-hanger, but it does not get resolved properly. The green-skinned people merely get easily distracted by some nearby commotion, and let Captain Sinbad escape. But most disappointing is an episode near the end of the story, where there is a fountain of water in the cave. The fountain changes various colors, obviously due to various dyes being put into the water.The earlier film, SEVENTH VOYAGE OF SINBAD is, in my opinion, one of the ten greatest films ever made. But the later-made film, THE GOLDEN VOYAGE OF SINBAD, is just another movie to add to one's collection. Here is a warning: the side of the disc that is named the "widescreen version" of the movie is not a widescreen version. It is just the full-screen version with 10% of the image chopped off of the top border, and 10% of the image chopped off from the lower border. I have never encountered a stupider gimmick in my life. Anyway, the disc contains the same movie on both sides -- the full-frame movie, and the chopped-off movie that is missing 20% of the image.

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In the original Sinbad stories the plot is as follows - Sinbad sails off to make money, ship is pushed off course or destroyed, crew all dies, Sinbad survives mostly from good luck, returns to civilization, cargo is found by somebody else, Sinbad sells it, makes profit, keeps it for himself, goes home, the end. The movies seem to go in a completely different direction. Most of the time his crew is not killed off, he rarely seems to do any trading, and he never really seems to end up wealthy by the end of it. The Golden Voyage of Sinbad has a simple plot, with nice scenery, and good atmosphere but I find two things overshadow all those thing. One, is the special effects by Ray Harryhausen. We get a six armed statue, a one eyed centaur, and a griffin who is barely on stage before getting killed. Really, seems more like a last minute thought.The second thing I noticed is the people selected for the characters. John Phillip Law as Sinbad is okay. He seems to come across as brave, kind, intelligent, and somewhat skilled in sword fighting.Tom Baker as Prince Koura is perfect! The voice, the faces he makes when doing magic, his sense of timing and even the fake tan they gave him all make for a great character. And he takes his part so seriously! I was always waiting for him to call on K-9 or slip into the TARDIS.Than there is Caroline Munro playing the slave girl Margoana. You may have seen her before. Not only is she a somewhat regular in Hammer films, but she was also in the first Casino Royale AND she played the helicopter assassin in The Spy Who Loved Me who gave Roger Moore's Bond that lewd wink. She is more likely remembered as the poster girl for Navy Rum in 1970. In other words, like most Hammer Girls she was also a Bond Girl. But unlike most models, she was able to move into the movie and television industry without much of a problem. In other words, she seemed to be a good actor. And she does a good job in this move also - not that she got enough screen time. The film is in color, 105 minutes and has a few features you may enjoy.Why is it missing one point? Well, it does feel aged, and while the humor is nice the story does feel a tad off. I am not saying there are plot holes as much as I did not feel as invested as I should. Lemuria did not feel as dangerous as it could have and Prince Koura never felt as dangerous as he could have. Why did Magoana's character have that eye on her palm and why was the griffin the symbol of good? Needed more details. This is a story of Sinbad - there should have been more wonder, fantasy, and magic.So that is why it only gets four stars.

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It has been quite a while since I have seen this one and I do have the other two Harryhausen Sinbad films. This one is a bit longer and the pace is slower than the other ones but the acting and storyline is much improved. The actors look more authentic no blond haired blue eyed Sinbad here. What sets this one apart is the humor too and that there is a number of separate story arcs that come together with the main one. A shopkeeper in town pays Sinbad to take his lazy son to sea with him and make him a man. that addition is great where while the main story goes on the son serves as a bit of comic relief and he eventually becomes a useful member of the crew. It has the necessary elements and evil wizard with an over the top performance. His story is a bit more important here too as he ages from the use of his powerful magics. The concern of his henchmen over his aging and health. A beautiful girl but this time she is not a princess but a slave freed by Sinbad. The stop motion mastery of Ray Harryhausen is also here the fight with Kali is impressive with all her limbs. I am a big fan of Harryhausens work and have seen most of his films. They have more of a handcrafted look than today's films. This is why I like them so much and like to look at special effects extravaganza,s pre computer days. Ironic because I have spent quite a bit of time doing such work on the computer but still prefer the old school effects.

I rented the movie for some nostalgic old-school special effects action but I enjoyed the characters and plot too. It actually holds up relatively well (from the perspective of a Gen X-er at least). A fun romp in a cool setting with rad monsters and fake accents!

The Golden Voyage of Sinbad is an old movie (1973). The story is "cheesy" and the special effects look cheap, but.... but this movie has its own charm !You want a nice adventure movie for all the family (no sex and no violence...) ? it's the one !For males, Caroline Munro is really .. a nice woman. Don't worry, the Mrs won't shut down the TV (she is not a "femme fatale" in this movie...).For kids there are some "silly" monsters, but nothing gory and nightmarish !A good weekend movie.

Watching this movie transported me back to my childhood days, in the 70s watching this movie at 3rd tier cheap theatre, gasped when all kinds of odd creatures appeared on the screen fighting the hero, Sinbad.The picture and sound quality of this release is quite good considering the age of the film and the budget spent making this film, the special features are not "the ultimate" but nevertheless still quite generous, fans of the movie and Mr Harryhausen will enjoy with the special features provided in this disc.If you like old school fantasy movie and considering the price of this disc is not expensive, this movie comes with my recommendation

Auf der Fahrt über den Indischen Ozean fällt Kapitän Sindbad ein geheimnisvolles goldenes Schmuckstück in die Hände, das für Prinz Koura gedacht war, einem schwarzen Magier aus dem Königreich Marabia. Der Großwesir des Landes, dessen Gesicht durch Kouras Zauberei entstellt wurde und das er seitdem unter einer goldenen Maske verbirgt, weist Sindbad in das Geheimnis des Fundstücks ein: Es ist eines von drei Teilen, die zusammengesetzt ein Amulett ergeben, das den Weg zur mystischen Insel Lemuria weist ("Es heißt, sie sei der letzte Überrest von einem riesigen Erdteil, der im Meer versunken ist!"). Auf dieser soll es eine geheime Höhle geben, in welcher der Brunnen des Schicksals liegt: eine magische Quelle, die, so heißt es, drei überirdische Geschenke für das Amulett freigibt: ewige Jugend, eine Tarnkappe (ein Schild, das unsichtbar macht) und eine Krone von unermesslichem Wert. Da Sindbad und der Großwesir zwei der drei Teile besitzen, machen sie sich auf, gemeinsam mit Haroun (dem unnützen Sohn eines Händlers) und der Sklavin Margiana (die Sindbad im Traum erschienen ist), um nach dem letzten Fragment im Tempel der Göttin Kali zu suchen..."Wenn der Wind günstig ist, könnten wir dieses Gebiet vor Aufgang der Venus erreichen und dann Orion folgen, durch Gewässer segeln, die mir noch unbekannt sind..."Mit dem 36-jährigen John Phillip Law (1937-2008, als blinder Vogelmensch Pygar in Barbarella, mit Bo Derek in Tarzan: Herr des Urwalds 1981) mit der Stimme von Klaus Kindler (1930-2001, DIE Stimme von Clint Eastwood) als Kapitän Sindbad ("Sindbad hat mehr Piraten auf den Meeresboden geschickt als ich zählen kann!"),der 24-jährigen Caroline Munro (Dracula jagt Mini-Mädchen, Helikopterpilotin Naomi in James Bond 007: Der Spion der mich liebte, Model für die Vogue, mit 16 Gesicht des Jahres in Großbritannien) als wunderschöne Margiana ("Du bist jetzt frei! Du gehörst keinem anderen als dir selbst!"),Douglas Wilmer (1920-2016, Jason und die Argonauten, 13 Folgen als Sherlock Holmes in der gleichnamigen BBC-Serie von 1964/65) als Großwesir mit der goldenen Maske "Ich hab gehört, dass Gold einem zu Kopf steigen kann, aber das?" ("Das Amulett, das du am Hals trägst, es macht uns zu Verbündeten gegen den gleichen Feind!")und Tom Baker (wurde unmittelbar nach Sindbad der vierte Doktor von 1974 bis 1981 in Doctor Who) als böser Prinz Koura ("Eine Alraune und ein paar Chemikalien, mehr brauche ich nicht!")."Die Beschwörung der Dämonen der Finsternis hat ihren Preis. Jedes Mal, wenn ich sie herbeirufe, verzehrt es einen Teil von mir!"Außerdem Martin Shaw (CI5-Agent Doyle in 57 Folgen Die Profis 1977-1983) als Sindbads erster Offizier Rachid ("Wirf es ins Wasser! Es bringt Unglück, ich fühle es!"),der Spanier Aldo Sambrell (1937-2010, Für eine Handvoll Dollar, Für ein paar Dollar mehr, mit Burt Reynolds in Corbuccis Navajo Joe) als Omar ("Du Narr, du hast Unglück über uns alle gebracht!"),der Grieche Takis Emmanuel (1933-2017, Alexis Sorbas, James Bond 007: Im Geheimdienst Ihrer Majestät) als Kouras Handlanger Achmed ("Wir müssen uns beeilen, Achmed. Wer auf der Suche nach Perlen ist, darf nicht schlafen!", "Finde mir ein Schiff und einen Kapitän, dem man trauen kann. Er muss bereit sein, mit der nächsten Flut auszulaufen!"),der Armenier Grégoire Aslan (1908-1982, Der Teufel kommt um vier mit Spencer Tracy & Frank Sinatra, Potheinos in Cleopatra 1963, Sie fürchten weder Tod noch Teufel mit Anthony Quinn, Alain Delon & Claudia Cardinale) als "Ich bin Hakim, Besitzer dieses reich bestückten Warenhauses!" ("Das ist mein Sohn Haroun. Ein Tunichtgut, ein Narr! Zweihundert Goldmünzen, wenn du ihn mitnimmst!" - "Den soll ich mitnehmen? Ich könnte ihn nicht mal als Ballast verwenden!" - "Dreihundert Goldmünzen!" - "Mein Freund, du kannst nicht zwei Melonen mit einer Hand greifen und ich kann keine Wunder vollbringen, lebe wohl!")und der 23-jährige Kurt Christian (eigentlich Baron Kurt Christian von Siegenberg, Rafi in Sindbad und das Auge des Tigers) als Sindbads Sidekick und Hakims fauler, ständig benebelter Sohn Haroun ("Da unten ist Wasser, überall nichts als Wasser... Wir sind auf See!" - "Der Junge ist ein Genie!")."Mein Herz ist voller Tapferkeit! Aber meine Beine sind mit Feigheit geschlagen... "Regie führte im Jahr 1973 (Originaltitel: THE GOLDEN VOYAGE OF SINBAD) mit einem Budget von 980.000 USD der 43-jährige Brite Gordon Hessler (1925-2014, Edgar Allan Poes Im Todesgriff der roten Maske 1969 und Die lebenden Leichen des Dr. Mabuse, beide mit Vincent Price und Christopher Lee, KISS in Attack of the Phantoms mit der Hardrockband Kiss 1978).Die zur damaligen Zeit bahnbrechenden Special Effects (mit der Stop-Motion-Technik) stammen wieder einmal von dem 53-jährigen US-Amerikaner Ray Harryhausen (1920-2013, Panik um King Kong 1949, Sindbads siebente Reise 1958, Jason und die Argonauten 1963, Sindbad und das Auge des Tigers 1977, Kampf der Titanen 1981, Ehren-Oscar 1992 für sein Lebenswerk), der den Film auch produzierte – und dem diese Blu-ray-Kollektion (Veröffentlichung: 13. Juni 2019) gewidmet wurde."Wie kann er das Schiff steuern, ohne was zu sehen?" - "Der Kapitän braucht nichts zu sehen!"_Fazit: 105 Minuten sagenhaftes (Siebziger Jahre) FANTASY-ABENTEUER mit – für die damalige Zeit – atemberaubenden Special Effects: einem fliegenden, fiesen kleinen Homunkulus ("Hol mir Pfeil und Bogen!"), einer absolut unheimlichen Galionsfigur ("Sie bewegt sich!"), dem Tempel des allwissenden Orakels ("Zwei Tafeln bracht er vor das Licht, doch eine dritte bleibt noch außer Sicht. An einem Platz verborgen, tief unter der Erden, muss die letzte noch gefunden werden!"), kleinen grünen Männchen (und ihrem einäugigen Gott, erinnert mich jedes Mal an das Rancor-Monster in Jabbas Palast in Die Rückkehr der Jedi-Ritter), der sechsarmigen Göttin Kali ("Tanze für mich!"), einem einäugigen Zentaur (Kreuzung aus Pferd und Zyklop) und einem Greif (mythisches Mischwesen mit Löwenrumpf, Flügeln und dem Kopf eines Raubvogels). Für mich neben dem Zeichentrickfilm Sinbad: Der Herr der sieben Meere von 2003 (mit den Stimmen von Benno Führmann/ Sinbad, Benjamin Völz/ Proteus, Jasmin Tabatabai/ Marina und Daniela Hoffmann als Göttin des Chaos Eris) meine liebste Sin(d)bad-Verfilmung und 4/5**** Note 2"Ich bin der Leichteste!" - "Aber ich bin der Leichtsinnigste!"Der Film gewann 1975 zwei SATURN AWARDS als BESTER FANTASYFILM und die BESTE STOP-MOTION-ANIMATION.------------------------------EXTRAS: The Harryhausen Chronicles 57:55 (erzählt von Leonard Nimoy mit deutschen Untertiteln: "Im Zeitalter der Computeranimation erinnert uns das Werk von Ray Harryhausen an den Wert der menschlichen Hand. In einer Zeit, in der Spezialeffekte von großen Teams erstellt werden, erinnert er uns daran, was ein(!) Mensch alles erreichen kann."), This is Dynamation 3:23 ("Sindbads 7. Reise ist das 8. Wunder der Leinwand!"), US-Kinotrailer 2:46, Deutscher Trailer 2:44, Bildergalerie (41 Bilder) 1:58, außerdem gibt es ein Wendecover.Bildformat (der Blu-ray): 1.66:1 enhanced (1080p), Sprache/Ton: Deutsch (DTS HD Master Audio 2.0), Englisch (DTS HD Master Audio 5.1), Untertitel: Deutsch, EnglischDas Bild ist (allerdings nur zum Teil) sensationell scharf und passt dadurch nicht immer zur veralteten Tricktechnik. Der Ton ist okay (für die deutsche Tonspur dürfte es sich nicht wirklich lohnen, extra die Soundbar oder Ähnliches anzukurbeln, hier genügt, wenn Sie mich fragen, der einfache Fernsehton). Meine alte DVD werde ich auf keinen Fall entsorgen, bietet sie mir doch noch weitere Tonspuren (Französisch, Italienisch, Spanisch) und noch mehr Untertitel (Französisch, Italienisch, Spanisch plus dreizehn weitere)."Es gibt ein altes Sprichwort, an das ich mich halte: Vertraue Allah! Aber binde dein Kamel an."

Sinbad’s love of shiny trinkets and curvy women land him in hot water once again.There’s also an evil magician to contend with (Tom Baker).Despite having a new actor in the role of Sinbad (John Phillip Law), a new director (Gordon Hessler), and a new composer (Miklós Rózsa) this 2nd adventure is unmistakably Sinbad-ish. The colourful Arabian imagery, the theatrics, the derring-do of the characters and the amazing stop-motion creatures of Ray Harryhausen mean it’s faithful to the previous film in every way.

Loved Sinbad films as a kid . Still love them today . Great fun . Hadn’t seen this in a while . Ray Harryhausen is the master . Had it on dvd but looks much better on this blu ray . Great interviews too which were not on dvd .