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6.6/10   2,303 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Brian Clemens (screenplay)
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Release Date:
12 April 1974 (West Germany) more
Tagline:
Dynarama Means Supreme Adventure! more
Plot:
Sinbad and his crew intercept a homunculus carrying a golden tablet. Koura, the creator of the homunculus and practitioner of evil magic... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
2 wins more
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Not a patch on '7th Voyage',but great fun all the same more (48 total)

Cast

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John Phillip Law ... Captain Sinbad
Caroline Munro ... Margiana
Tom Baker ... Prince Koura
Douglas Wilmer ... Vizier
Martin Shaw ... Rachid
Grégoire Aslan ... Hakim (as Gregoire Aslan)
Kurt Christian ... Haroun
Takis Emmanuel ... Achmed
David Garfield ... Abdul (as John D. Garfield)
Ferdinando Poggi ... Kali stand-in (as Fernando Poggi)
Aldo Sambrell ... Omar
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Also Known As:
Sinbad's Golden Voyage (UK) (working title)
A Nova Viagem de Sinbad (Portugal) [pt]
As Novas Viagens de Simbad (Brazil) [pt]
As Novas Viagens de Sinbad (Brazil) [pt]
El viaje fantástico de Simbad (Spain) [es]
Il viaggio fantastico di Sinbad (Italy) [it]
Le voyage fantastique de Sinbad (France) [fr]
Sinbad, merten sankari (Finland) [fi]
Sinbads fantastiska resa (Sweden) [sv]
Sindbads gefährliche Abenteuer (West Germany) [de]
To hryso taxeidi tou Sevah tou Thalassinou (Greece) [el]
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USA:105 min
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Robert Shaw desperately wanted the role of Sinbad but was placated by being cast uncredited as the Oracle. His face was heavily swathed in make-up and his voice electronically altered by a sound engineer. more
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Continuity: Standing beside Sinbad at the "Pool of Untold Riches", the reflection of Margiana in the water steps up beside the reflection of Sinbad a few seconds before Margiana actually steps up next to Sinbad. more
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The Oracle of all knowledge: [the Keeper has summoned the Oracle of All Knowledge from it's well and before Sinbad and his comrades, surrounded by licking flames, appears an image of a face like a bearded man with horns like a ram growing from it's head, a thick mane of hair and a demonic smile that shows it's rotting teeth] Two tablets brought forth to the light, yet a third remains from sight. A final place must still be found, a place that lies deep below the ground...
Sinbad: It speaks in riddles!
The Oracle of all knowledge: No race is lost until in fact it's won, and close behind you comes the black and evil son spawned by the devil, suckled upon black milk of human form... Clad in robes of silk... Destiny... Destiny... Destiny is invisible and yet visible, and men may try to hide yet it's waters mark it clearly like a rainbow in the sky...
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10 out of 11 people found the following review useful.
Not a patch on '7th Voyage',but great fun all the same, 27 September 2004
Author: DrLenera

Made 14 years after The 7th Voyage Of Sinbad, this follow up is ,unsurprisingly, not as good, but that WAS a ground breaking classic. Perhaps sensing that they could not top the first film, the filmmakers give this movie a slightly different feel. If 7th Voyage was full of colour and size, Golden Voyage is somewhat darker and less spectacular. Most of the action occurs at night or in caves, while none of the creatures are especially large. This makes Golden Voyage slightly less of a delightful romp, but it's certainly not just a rehash. There is a strong sense of the uncanny to some scenes,such as the villain's resurrection of the tiny humunculus, or the coming to life of the ship's figurehead.

The pace is possibly a little two leisurely, but the action is still terrific, the showstopper being Sinbad and his men battling the 6 armed statue of the Indian goddess Kali, a masterpiece of effects and editing. Tom Baker is the most sinister of all Harryhausen's villains, and Miklos Rozsa's wonderfully rich and grand score never fails to provide excellent backing. It's very different from Bernard Herrmann's classic Harryhausen scores, but as effective.

Despite their flaws, there is a wonderful innocence to these Harryhausen films. A modern version would be filled to the brim with CGI, hyperactive editing, 'clever' laughs that show that no one is bothering to take any of this seriously ,etc....... Is that really an improvement?

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