Synopsis
“Trust in Allah, but tie up your camel.”

If you’re clicking around the site looking for the Sinbad movie where he fights that cool statue thing with six arms, you can stop now. This is the one.

The mythical Arabian sailor’s golden voyage begins when one of his men shoots down a bat-winged homunculi, which drops a gold medallion onto the ship’s deck. Sinbad begins wearing the medallion, which gives him strange dreams about a black-robed villain and a woman with an eye tattooed on her palm.

The ship lands in Marabia, where Sinbad runs across the man in black, a wicked wizard named Koura (played by future Dr. Who, Tom Baker). The wizard wants his medallion back, but Sinbad flees into the city, where he meets a gold-masked Vizier with a second, interlocking gold medallion. The two men set sail to find the third and final piece of the golden puzzle, picking up a slave girl who (are you ready for this?) has an eye tattooed on her palm.

All of this, of course, is merely an excuse to get to the good stuff: Sinbad and his men fighting an army of Ray Harryhausen’s “Dynamation” beasties. From bat-winged homunculi to one-eyed centaurs, from a flying griffin to a living ship’s figurehead, and of course, the six-armed, six-sworded statue of Kali, the rest of the film zips from one stop-motion battle to another.

A return to the swashbuckling adventure of 30’s serials and 50’s B-movie matinees, The Golden Voyage of Sinbad was a surprise success. A final Charles H. Schneer/Ray Harryhausen Sinbad movie followed in 1977, Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger.

Release History 1958 - The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
1974 - The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
1977 - Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger

Sub Categories live-action
sci-fi/fantasy
action/adventure

Studio Columbia

Cast

Sinbad		John Phillip Law
Margiana		Caroline Munro
Koura		Tom Baker
Vizier		Douglas Wilmer
Rachid		Martin Shaw
Hakim		Grégoire Aslan
Haroun		Kurt Christian
Achmed		Takis Emmanuel
Abdul		David Garfield
Omar		Aldo Sambrell
Unknown		Fernando Poggi

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