Actually, the next announced Harryhausen fantasy was to have been Sinbad On Mars, a truly intriguing idea, but the project was shelved when MGM put up the cash for Clash Of The Titans, the most expensive Harryhausen film ever, at around US15 million. His final film was Clash Of The Titans (1981), after which he retired. During his life, his innovative effects has inspired many filmmakers, not least being Tim Burton, Joe Dante, Tom Hanks, Peter Jackson, John Landis, John Lasseter, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. His most famous films include Mighty Joe Young (1949) with his mentor Willis O’Brien, The 7th Voyage Of Sinbad (1958), and Jason And The Argonauts (1963) which features a furious fight with seven skeleton swordsmen. Essentially, Harryhausen was a Hollywood special effects artist who created his own style of stop-motion model animation known as Dynamation. If you’re reading this, I have no doubt you already know who Ray Harryhausen is but, just in case you’ve been on Mars the last fifty years, I’ll give it to you in a nutshell. In order that the dreaded Kraken not be released, Andromeda has to be sacrificed and Perseus searches for the Medusa her head is the only thing that can stop the Kraken.” (courtesy IMDB) Trouble appears in the shape of Calibos, the princess’s former love, and his mother, the Goddess Thetis. But their lack of acting savvy is one of the few detriments of the film.“By answering a seemingly impossible riddle Perseus, the son of Zeus, wins the hand of the Princess Andromeda in marriage. Harry Hamlin as Perseus and Judi Bowker as his love-interest Andromeda are lackluster(although Ms. Credit also goes to the wonderful supporting cast of British stage nobility playing the gods and such, Laurence Olivier plays Zeus, Maggie Smith is Thetis, and Claire Bloom, Ursala Andress, Flora Robson, and Burgess Meredith play memorable roles as well. The credit for this goes to the wonderful stop-animation work of Ray Harryhausen, in his (unfortunately) last film. This movie is great fun and makes all these mythological names come alive. We also see him befriend the magical Pegasus, and meet Cheron on the river Styx. The film is then a chronicle of Perseus's adventures as he battles the deadly, deformed Calibos, giant scorpions, a two-headed giant dog, and the evil Medusa herself, as well as the mightiest of all titans, the Kracken itself. Zeus then releases this terrible beast called the Kracken to destroy the city. We soon find out that this child is the son of Zeus, king of Mt. This film opens with a woman and her child being shunned by her kingly father and the city he represents, and banished to the depths of the sea.
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