The 7th Voyage of Sinbad | |
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Directed by | Nathan H. Juran |
Written by | Kenneth Kolb |
Based on | Sinbad the Sailor from One Thousand and One Nights |
Produced by | Charles H. Schneer Ray Harryhausen (associate producer) |
Starring | Kerwin Mathews Kathryn Grant Richard Eyer Torin Thatcher |
Cinematography | Wilkie Cooper |
Edited by | Roy Watts Jerome Thoms |
Music by | Bernard Herrmann |
Production company | Morningside Productions |
Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time | 88 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $650,000[1] |
Box office | $3.2 million (est. US/ Canada rentals)[2] |
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad is a 1958 American Technicolor heroic fantasy adventure film directed by Nathan H. Juran and starring Kerwin Mathews, Torin Thatcher, Kathryn Grant, Richard Eyer, and Alec Mango. It was distributed by Columbia Pictures and produced by Charles H. Schneer.[3]
It was the first of three Sinbad feature films from Columbia, the later two from the 1970s being The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973) and Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977). All three Sinbad films were conceptualized by Ray Harryhausen using Dynamation, the full color widescreen stop-motion animation technique that he created.
While similarly named, the film does not follow the storyline of the tale "The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor" but instead has more in common with the Third and Fifth voyages of Sinbad.
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad was selected in 2008 for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[4][5]