The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad is a 1958 Harryhausen Movie featuring Kerwin Mathews as Sinbad the Sailor, but starring Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion monsters.
This was the first feature film using stop-motion animation effects to be completely shot in color.
It was nominated for the 1959 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad was added to the National Film Registry in 2008.
Tropes used in The 7th Voyage of Sinbad include:
- Bald of Evil: The sorcerer.
- Cyclopean Creature: The Cyclops, which looked like a giant one-eyed satyr with a horn on its head; . A second, two-horned one also appears in the film.
- Chekhov's Gun: The giant crossbow.
- Dem Bones: Sinbad fights an animated skeleton, prefiguring the army of animated skeletons in Jason and the Argonauts.
- Eye Scream: The first cyclops is defeated when Sinbad shoves a fiery torch into its eyeball, blinding it, and then leads it off a nearby cliff.
- Freeing the Genie: Near the end of the movie Sinbad throws the lamp into a river of lava, which frees the genie inside as was prophesied.
- Giant Flyer: The roc.
- Incredible Shrinking Man: The magician shrinks Princess Parisa as part of his plan to get the magic lamp.
- Large Ham: Sokura. "My spirit races ahead of time itself!"
- Most of the pirates count as well: "THE WIND SCREAMS LIKE TEN-THOUSAND FIENDS!"
- Siege Engines: Near the end Sinbad's sailors use a giant ballista to kill a dragon.
- Snake People: The evil magician temporarily combines a woman and a snake to create a four-armed woman with a snake's tail.