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
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
Fred Carter - Art Director, Fernando Gonzalez - Art Director, Maude Spector - Casting, Cynthia Tingey - Costume Designer, Miguel Angel Gil, Jr. - First Assistant Director, Sam Wanamaker - Director, Roy Watts - Editor, Roy Budd - Composer (Music Score), Colin Arthur - Makeup, Geoffrey Drake - Production Designer, Ted Moore - Cinematographer, Ray Harryhausen - Producer, Charles H. Schneer - Producer, Ray Harryhausen - Special Effects, George Stephenson - Sound/Sound Designer, Ray Harryhausen - Screen Story, Beverley Cross - Screen Story, Ray Harryhausen - Screenwriter, Beverley Cross - Screenwriter
Sinbad (Patrick Wayne), sailor and Prince of Baghdad, seeks 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) just as he was going to be crowned caliph. Sinbad sets off with Princess Farah to find an alchemist 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 with their quest. Melanthius tells Sinbad and his crew that they must travel to the land of Hyperboria to find an ancient pyramid where Kassim can be cured. Zenobia, her son Rafi, and the Minaton (a mechanical version of the Minotaur) secretly stalk them. On their quest, Sinbad and his crew encounter creatures such as a trio of ghouls, a killer wasp (effected by Zenobia's magic), a giant walrus, a troglodyte (a creature that is friendly to Sinbad and his crew), and a smilodon (whose body gets possessed by Zenobia).
Sinbad's ship is the same one used in the previous Sinbad film, The Golden Voyage of Sinbad. In fact, there is a brief sequence in the film in which the figurehead from the previous film, that was brought to life and attacked Sinbad's crew, is clearly visible.
The stop motion model of the Troglodyte, was later dismantled, so that the armature could be used to create Calibos in Clash of the Titans.
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 trip to Mars on a jewelled flying saucer and was loosely inspired by the novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs.
