The legendary Greek hero leads a team of intrepid adventurers in a perilous quest for the legendary Golden Fleece.The legendary Greek hero leads a team of intrepid adventurers in a perilous quest for the legendary Golden Fleece.The legendary Greek hero leads a team of intrepid adventurers in a perilous quest for the legendary Golden Fleece.
Ennio Antonelli
- Dmitrius
- (uncredited)
Harold Bradley
- Guard in Palace
- (uncredited)
John Crawford
- Polydeuces
- (uncredited)
Aldo Cristiani
- Lynceus
- (uncredited)
Bill Gudgeon
- Triton
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaIt took Ray Harryhausen four months to produce the skeleton scene which runs, at most, three minutes.
- GoofsAfter Jason's fight with Acastus, when Medea is telling Jason of the flower which can heal his wound, past Medea there is a mountain in the distance. On top of the mountain is a lighted building that appears to be a modern structure.
- Alternate versionsA brief scene was cut from the skeleton fight where the decapitated skeleton is seen feeling around for its head. In addition the UK cinema version was cut by the BBFC to remove the shrieking made by the skeletons from a face-on shot during the initial charge, and video versions featured the same print. DVD versions are uncut.
- ConnectionsEdited from Helen of Troy (1956)
Featured review
Possibly. His first "Sinbad" film in 1958 had one moving skeleton for the hero to fight; this one has a whole platoon of them, each part painstakingly moved one tiny distance at a time personally by Harryhausen through stop-motion techniques. The seven-headed Hydra is another technical marvel. There are some other nifty creatures for Jason and his crew to battle, but for me, the most impressive of them all turns up first: the gigantic Talos, the Man of Bronze.
I was a kid when this came out, and I don't think I'll ever forget that moment when the huge, crouched statue came to life, turned his head towards the two men below him (his bronze head screeching with the tear of metal), climbed off of his pedestal, and proceeded to chase Jason and his men. Talos was giant like Godzilla, but as single-minded as the Terminator: all he wants to do is track Jason's crew down until he kills them all. This gave me nightmares. Bernard Herrmann's score is one of his best, making music to match Harryhausen's images. (Herrmann was coming off of other Harryhausen's, plus Hitchcock's "Vertigo," "North by Northwest" and "Psycho," and knew how to thrill you.)
Tom Hanks, who was also a kid when this came out, has said: "Everybody thinks that 'Citizen Kane' was the greatest movie ever made. But if you were young in 1963, you know the real answer is: 'Jason and the Argonauts.'"
I was a kid when this came out, and I don't think I'll ever forget that moment when the huge, crouched statue came to life, turned his head towards the two men below him (his bronze head screeching with the tear of metal), climbed off of his pedestal, and proceeded to chase Jason and his men. Talos was giant like Godzilla, but as single-minded as the Terminator: all he wants to do is track Jason's crew down until he kills them all. This gave me nightmares. Bernard Herrmann's score is one of his best, making music to match Harryhausen's images. (Herrmann was coming off of other Harryhausen's, plus Hitchcock's "Vertigo," "North by Northwest" and "Psycho," and knew how to thrill you.)
Tom Hanks, who was also a kid when this came out, has said: "Everybody thinks that 'Citizen Kane' was the greatest movie ever made. But if you were young in 1963, you know the real answer is: 'Jason and the Argonauts.'"
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- Sinbad and the Age of Muses
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- $2,500,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $479
- Runtime1 hour 44 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.66 : 1(original ratio)
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