| The Golden Voyage of Sinbad | 
 enlarge | Director: Gordon Hessler
Actors: John Phillip Law, Caroline Munro, Tom Baker, Douglas Wilmer, Martin Shaw
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  34 reviews
Sales Rank: 44212
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Portuguese (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Georgian (Subtitled), Chinese (Subtitled), Thai (Subtitled)
Rating: G (General Audience)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 105
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
Picture Format: Pan & Scan
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: COLD04747D
ISBN: 0767847431
UPC: 043396047471
EAN: 9780767847438
ASIN: 0767847431
Theatrical Release Date: 1973
Release Date: June 6, 2000
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Condition: Somewhat worn. Expedited shipping is not available for this item.
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Product Description
Sinbad a beautiful slave girl and an evil magician journey to mysterious lemuria. Special features: fullscreen and widescreen versions subtitles in english spanish portuguese chinese korean and thai vintage advertising theatrical trailers scene selections talent files interactive menus and much more. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 12/21/2004 Run time: 106 minutes Rating: G
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John Phillip Law stars as the legendary sailor this time around as he finds a talisman and sets sail with his crew for an uncharted island. With a beautiful slave girl (Caroline Munro) in tow, Sinbad takes on the evil sorcerer Koura (Tom Baker), who wants Sinbad's golden talisman to complete a spell. En route to the island, Koura brings the ship's figurehead to life to wreak havoc on the ship and crew. Once there, Sinbad and crew must do battle with a six-armed figure of Kali brandishing a sword in each hand, as well as an enraged Cyclops centaur and a winged griffin, and also deal with the treacherous Koura. This 1974 entry in the Sinbad franchise is a bit of a mixed bag. On the one hand, the film's production values are quite good, and of course the Ray Harryhausen effects are as beautiful as ever. The set design (especially for the scenes inside the cavern) is striking and inventive, and there's Miklos Rozsa's score gracing the soundtrack. On the other hand, the story definitely tends to drag a bit, and Law's indeterminate accent often wavers toward a weird Slavic inflection. Pointing to the film's age, Law and company often tend to look like poncey rock stars with their long hair, beards, and harem pants. That's all nitpicking, though; the action segments, though they're fewer and farther between than in other Sinbad films, redeem the movie with Harryhausen's incredible artistry. It's worth owning just to see the fluid, complex movements of the animated Kali flailing away at six men with her swords. And of course, scream queen Caroline Munro never looked better as the slave girl Margiana. This is rich, well-crafted fantasy fare that the entire family can enjoy. --Jerry Renshaw
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 Full of Eastern promise October 12, 2008
6/5. Definitely the best of the three. The story is coherent (well, almost) for a start. The dialogue and the writing generally are much better than the other two. Clemens was/is actually a good writer. The acting by the blue-eyed Arabs was better: Baker and Law were almost convincing. You felt a bit sorry for Baker, and Sinbad was very noble, and knew how to treat a lady. Good accents: I suppose when they were speaking Arabic they had English accents. The monsters were all great, as usual, and I felt real sympathy for the poor little homunculus. Everything was put together well. We had the gold mask of Agamemnon, the dhows of either the Persian Gulf, or the Suez Canal, Allah was with us, Hindu temples exploded, Buddha smiled, and Kali (actually she looked more like Siva, Lord of the Dance) danced and flashed a lot of scimitars. Finally we ended up at the Fountain of Youth (straight out of Rider Haggard's "She"), which, blow me down, was in fact centred in the middle of Stonehenge, which in turn was in Aladdin's Cave, populated by fairly small green men, as well as a combination Greek cyclopic centaur. Sinbad got around. There were some good lines. I actually laughed when the idle merchant's son got the shock of his life when he was told he had to work. Through the entire tale there was an extremely tense undercurrent of suspense: was Caroline going to fall out of her bodice before the end, or was she not? No spoilers here. The only bit I didn't understand was how the villainous Tom Baker failed to win the battle when he was both invisible and had regained his youth. Still, there has to be a bit of mystery in this genre.
Golden Voyage of Sinbad October 6, 2008
Remarkable movie for the time period, without modern computer-generated action. My family and I enjoy this movie a great deal....clean, some comedy, good plot, and pretty amazing creatures and effects for the period. The heroine's outfits aren't on the modest side, but, there isn't even a hint of romance all movie long.
Well packaged and quickly shipped!
 5 stars for the centaur, the griffen and the godess kali. 2 stars for the story. May 25, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This Sinbad has some great stop-motion animation however the best of it doesn't occur until the last fifteen minutes of the film so in that respect this is a very slow builder, but worth it for the end.
Sinbad and his ship's crew find a special key. Koura an evil magician wants it back. Vizier turns up with the rest of the key and together they go on a quest to solve the riddle of what it opens.
Of course the main reason to watch it is for the stop-motion. In the golden voyage you get centaurs, griffen, the godess kali, a ship's statue and harpies. The centaur and griffen battle is the big one but the godess kali fight sequence is also very impressive for its time. Watch this for the animation. The story doesn't really cut it though.
False widescreen as usual September 21, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Just a quick note to anyone who sees this: as usual, these are not the true widescreen presentations. If you watch the full screen presentation and pick any scene with good border definitons, and then find the same scene in the widescreen version, you'll notice the edges have been edited over with black to create a widescreen appearance. In other words, instead of viewing MORE visual borders of these movies, the widescreen print is actually presenting much LESS than what was filmed. Stick with the fullscreen viewings so you don't miss anything.
Great adventure...cool movie.. April 30, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Parents,if you can't find anything for you and the kids to watch because of either being too violent or bad language,then why not this movie and the others that Ray Harryhausen did?? It has cool looking creatures and lots of action.It doesn't always have to be the newest releases,does it?? Show them movies you grew up on or your parents grew up on,so what are you waiting for??
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