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The Golden Voyage of Sinbad - 1974
Sinbad battles the creatures of legend in the miracle of Dynarama!

• Director(s)
  Gordon Hessler 
  
  Writer(s)
  Brian Clemens  also story
  Ray Harryhausen  story
  
  Producer(s)
  Ray Harryhausen producer
  Charles H. Schneer producer
  
  Cast
  John Phillip Law - Sinbad
  Caroline Munro - Margiana
  Tom Baker - Koura
  Douglas Wilmer - Vizier
  Martin Shaw - Rachid
  Grégoire Aslan - Hakim
  Kurt Christian - Haroun
  Takis Emmanuel - Achmed
  David Garfield - Abdul (as John D. Garfield)
  Ferdinando Poggi - Kali stand-in (as Fernando Poggi)
  Aldo Sambrell - Omar
  Robert Shaw - The Oracle of all knowledge (uncredited)

• Review by Theo Robertson

The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1974)
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Probably Harryhausen's Least Impressive Effort, 6 January 2005

Ray Harryhausen is a special FX god who knocks todays CGI wizards into a corked hat . Compare the skeleton scenes of JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS with many of today's movies and tell me what effect is more convincing ? No contest is it ?

Unfortunately the problem with THE GOLDEN VOYAGE OF SINBAD is that the audience is sitting there waiting for some great stop frame animation to come along and the film drags its feet in this respect . Twenty five minutes into the running time and there's only one small sequence featuring the Harryhausen effect , instead the audience have to put up with a bunch of not unknown British television actors standing around talking . The stop frame animation sequences do eventually come but how many children would have been bored senseless by this time ?

Watching THE GOLDEN VOYAGE OF SINBAD today is of interest for only two reasons . One is that the heroes are obviously Muslim which you probably won't be seeing in too many movies these days while the other is that the producer of DOCTOR WHO at the time Barry Letts decided to cast Tom baker in the title role after seeing him in this movie