“The 7th Voyage of Sinbad” is a fantasy adventure film telling the story of Sinbad’s journey to a dangerous island to rescue his fiancee, who has been shrunken by an evil wizard. Director Nathan Juran (“Hellcats of the Navy” 1957) put together an imaginative work which is now a classic adventure movie with full color and widescreen stop-motion animation sequences, vividly depicting the fights between the hero Sinbad and numerous monsters. The screenplay by Kenneth Kolb was adapted from “One Thousand and One Nights,” a collection of Arab folktales first published in English in 1706.
The cast includes Kerwin Mathews as Sinbad, Kathryn Grant (Mrs. Bing Crosby) as Princess Parisa, Torin Thatcher as the evil sorcerer, Richard Eyer as the genie, Alec Mango as the Caliph of Baghdad, Harold Kasket as the Sultan, and Danny Green, Virgilio Teixeira, Luis Guedes as crewmen. The watchable “The 7th Voyage of Sinbad” was popular at the box office for Morningside Productions and Columbia Pictures. It was filmed in Granada, Spain.
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)
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“The 7th Voyage of Sinbad” is a fantasy adventure film telling the story of Sinbad’s journey to a dangerous island to rescue his fiancee, who has been shrunken by an evil wizard. Director Nathan Juran (“Hellcats of the Navy” 1957) put together an imaginative work which is now a classic adventure movie with full color and widescreen stop-motion animation sequences, vividly depicting the fights between the hero Sinbad and numerous monsters. The screenplay by Kenneth Kolb was adapted from “One Thousand and One Nights,” a collection of Arab folktales first published in English in 1706.
The cast includes Kerwin Mathews as Sinbad, Kathryn Grant (Mrs. Bing Crosby) as Princess Parisa, Torin Thatcher as the evil sorcerer, Richard Eyer as the genie, Alec Mango as the Caliph of Baghdad, Harold Kasket as the Sultan, and Danny Green, Virgilio Teixeira, Luis Guedes as crewmen. The watchable “The 7th Voyage of Sinbad” was popular at the box office for Morningside Productions and Columbia Pictures. It was filmed in Granada, Spain.