After suffering through “The Assassination Bureau,” Roy made the command decision to nix it. It turns out there’s no science fiction in it.
Therefore, our John Phillip Law festival continues with “The Golden Voyage of Sinbad” (1973). Legendary stop-motion artist Ray Harryhausen breathes life into the Dynamation homunculi, dueling Kali statue, centaur-cyclops, golden griffin, and perhaps myth’s most impassive Siren. That’s some serious Sinbad science! Law, you’ll recall, played Pygar the angel in last Friday’s film topic, “Barbarella.”
Miklós Rózsa’s portentous score still echoes in my ears, even as a well-oiled Caroline Munro lingers in my memory. Tom Baker, on the very eve of “Doctor Who” celebrity, plays the villainous necromancer Koura. In the days before anyone ever heard of cultural appropriation, a blue-eyed Sinbad swashbuckles his way through a mish-mash of mythologies.
Join us, as we too shall sin bad, on the next Roy’s Tie-Dye Sci-Fi Corner. Your destiny is written in the comments section, as we livestream on Facebook, this Friday evening at 7:00 EST!
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