Tag Archives: 50’s
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)
As fantasy films go, they don’t get much better than this. The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958) was also the seventh big-screen voyage of Ray Harryhausen, whose magical stop motion creatures populated Mighty Joe Young (1949, alongside mentor Willis O’Brien), … Continue reading
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Tagged 50's, Arabian Nights, Bernard Herrmann, cyclops, Dragon, Fantasy, genie, Kathryn Grant, Kerwin Mathews, Nathan Juran, Ray Harryhausen, Richard Eyer, Roc, Sirens, Skeleton, Stop Motion, Torin Thatcher
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World Without End (1956)
While on a mission to Mars – which, ambitiously, also happens to be the first manned flight into space – Rocketship XRM (not to be confused with Rocketship X-M) travels so fast that it is flung into an “exponential time displacement” … Continue reading
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Tagged 50's, Alberto Vargas, Christopher Dark, cyclops, Edward Bernds, giant spider, Hugh Marlowe, Lisa Montell, Nancy Gates, Nelson Leigh, Post Apocalyptic, Rod Taylor, Science Fiction, Shawn Smith
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The Sword and the Dragon: The Dell Comic Book
When Aleksandr Ptushko’s epic fantasy film Ilya Muromets (1956) was distributed in the United States in 1960 as The Sword and the Dragon, the Vitalite Film Corporation licensed the title out to Dell Comics to produce the official comic book … Continue reading
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Tagged 50's, Aleksandr Ptushko, Comic Book, Dragon, fairy tale, Fantasy, Mongol, Russian
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