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  • Release Date: 2000
  • Audio: English [mono]
  • Subtitles: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, Thai
  • Digitally mastered audio and anamorphic video
  • Widescreen presentation
  • Ray Harryhausen Chronicles
  • "This Is Dynamation" featurette
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  • Rating: StarStar
  • Genre: Fantasy
  • Movie Type: Mythological Fantasy, Fantasy Adventure
  • Themes: Heroic Mission, Daring Rescues, Metamorphosis
  • Director: Sam Wanamaker
  • Main Cast: Patrick Wayne, Taryn Power, Margaret Whiting, Jane Seymour, Patrick Troughton
  • Release Year: 1977
  • Country: UK/US
  • Run Time: 112 minutes
  • MPAA Rating: G

Plot

Famed stop-motion animator Ray Harryhausen concocts a collection of fantastic creatures -- including a saber-tooth tiger, a chess-playing baboon, a giant walrus and three banshees -- for this follow-up to The Golden Voyage of Sinbad. Patrick Wayne stars as Sinbad, who seeks the hand of Princess Farah (Jane Seymour) in marriage but cannot get her brother, Prince Kassim (Damian Thomas), to agree to the match because he has been turned into a baboon by his evil stepmother. In order to receive the blessing of Farah's brother, Sinbad must travel to a far away realm and find a wizard named Melanthius (Patrick Troughton), the only one who can break the evil spell placed upon Kassim. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide

Cast


Kurt Christian - Rafi; Damien Thomas - Kassim; Bruno Barnabe - Balsora; Bernard Kay - Zabid; Samali Coker - Maroof; Peter Mayhew - Minoton; Nadim Sawalha - Hassan; Margaret Seymour; David Sterne - Aboo Seer

Credit

Colin Arthur - Makeup; Roy Budd - Composer (Music Score); Fred Carter - Art Director; Geoffrey Drake - Production Designer; Fernando Gonzalez - Art Director; Ray Harryhausen - Producer; Ray Harryhausen - Special Effects; Ray Harryhausen - Screenwriter; Ray Harryhausen - Short Story Author; Ted Moore - Cinematographer; Charles H. Schneer - Producer; Sam Wanamaker - Director; Roy Watts - Editor; Beverley Cross - Screenwriter; Beverley Cross - Short Story Author; Cynthia Tingey - Costume Designer; Maude Spector - Casting; George Stephenson - Sound/Sound Designer; Miguel Angel Gil, Jr. - First Assistant Director

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Wikipedia: Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger
Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger
Sinbad_tiger_1977.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Sam Wanamaker
Produced by Charles H. Schneer
Ray Harryhausen
Written by Beverley Cross
Ray Harryhausen
Starring Patrick Wayne
Jane Seymour
Taryn Power
Patrick Troughton
Margaret Whiting
Music by Roy Budd
Cinematography Ted Moore
Editing by Roy Watts
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Running time 113 min.
Country Flag of the United Kingdom United Kingdom
Language English
Budget $3.5 million
IMDb profile

Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger is a 1977 fantasy film, the final installment of Ray Harryhausen's Sinbad Trilogy and the penultimate movie in which Harryhausen would use the stop-motion technique which he had pioneered since the late 1940s. The movie was directed by Sam Wanamaker and cost 7 million dollars to make, being the most costly of the Sinbad series. The live action was filmed in Spain, Malta, and Jordan (at the tombs of ancient Petra) between June-October of 1975, with Harryhausen's stop-motion animation work lasting from October, 1975 up to March, 1977.

Plot summary

Starring Patrick Wayne in the title role of Sinbad, sailor and Prince of Baghdad who is seeking permission from Prince Kassim to marry his sister Princess Farah (Jane Seymour). A spell is placed on Kassim by their evil stepmother Zenobia (Margaret Whiting) turning him into a baboon (one of Harryhausen's stop-motion creations in the movie) just when he was going to be crowned caliph. Sinbad sets off with Princess Farah to find a wizard named Melanthius (Patrick Troughton), who knows where to discover a cure to break the evil spell. Sinbad and his crew eventually find Melanthius and his daughter Dione (Taryn Power) who agrees to help them in their quest. Melanthius tells Sinbad and his crew that they must travel to the land of Hyperboria to find the ancient pyramid where Kassim can be cured. While on their quest, Zenobia, her son Rafi, and the Minaton (mechanical version of the Minotaur) secretly stalk them. On their quest, Sinbad and his crew encounter creatures such as a giant walrus, a troglodyte (a creature that is friendly to Sinbad and his crew), a smilodon, a trio of ghouls, and a killer wasp.


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Production Notes

"The Troglodyte" stop-motion animation created by Ray Harryhausen
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"The Troglodyte" stop-motion animation created by Ray Harryhausen
  • Originally Laurence Naismith was considered for the part of Melanthius but at the time he was busy with another production.
  • The exterior of Zenobia's palace was a 16-inch model matted into the Almeria coastline, with the actors standing on the rocks.
  • For the film Ray Harryhausen visited London Zoo and spent hours observing the baboons and tigers, making sketches and filming them on 8mm.
  • Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger took three years to complete and cost $3.5 million, almost three times as much as The Golden Voyage of Sinbad.
  • Sinbad's ship in the film, is the exact same ship used in Ray Harryhausen's previous Sinbad film, The Golden Voyage of Sinbad. In fact, there is brief sequence in the film - where the figurehead from the previous film, that was brought to life and attacked Sinbad's crew - is clearly visible.
  • A fourth film, Sinbad's Voyage to Mars, was written and locations were scouted, but the film was never made. It had Sinbad hitch a tip to Mars on a jewelled flying saucer and was loosely inspired by the novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs.
  • Kurt Christian who plays Zenobia's son also appeared in The Golden Voyage of Sinbad as the more sympathetic Haroun.
From left to right: Patrick Wayne, Patrick Troughton, Taryn Power, and Jane Seymour
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From left to right: Patrick Wayne, Patrick Troughton, Taryn Power, and Jane Seymour

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