船乗りシンドバッドは航海中、金属片を抱えて飛ぶ怪鳥を目撃。手に入れてみると、それはメダルの一部だった。陸に上がると、悪の魔法使いクーラに「メダルを返せ」と一方的に攻撃されるが、なんとか町まで辿り着きクーラから逃れる。町で、バラバラになったこのメダルの全パーツを集めれば強大な力が得られることを知ったシンドバッドは、残りの部分を探すべく、大冒険の航海に乗り出すことに。
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興行収入: $11,000,000 (17億円)
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監督: Gordon Hessler
脚本: Brian Clemens / Ray Harryhausen
音楽: ロージャ・ミクローシュ
制作: Ray Harryhausen / Charles H. Schneer / Andrew Donally
撮影監督: Ted Moore
"Sinbad" (John Phillip Law) is in possession of a rather clunky medallion that he only narrowly manages to keep from the grasping hands of the sorcerer "Koura" (Tom Baker). Finding safety in the city of "Marabia" he is told a tale by the Grand Vizier (Douglas Wilmer) and shown why the evil "Koura" is after his jewel. Shortly afterwards, while walking through the bazaar he is encouraged - to the tune of 400 gold pieces and the pretty "Margiana" (Caroline Munro) - to take the lazy "Haroun" (Kurt Christian) on his next, perilous, voyage. Off they all go in search of the Oracle of All Knowledge - hotly pursued by the sorcerer - where they hope to finally thwart his ambitions to become ever-youthful, wealthy and all-powerful. It's a fun and entertaining story this that I vaguely recall watching as a seven year old in a long-defunct Glasgow cinema. Law is handsome enough, Munro brings a bit of glamour, Baker hams up nicely as the baddie and Christian and Martin Shaw contribute a little bit of nautical humour and theatrical guffawing to the proceedings nicely, too. The real stars, as ever though, are the creations of Ray Harryhausen - not least the Centaur and the wonderful Kali with her sword dance. Even now, I am still not sure how the ending finished up the way it did - and that, I found, really rather disappointing - but it's still a colourful and reasonably well paced adventure film with some memorable beasties and a Miklos Rosza score that bears a striking resemblance to his work on “Ben Hur” (1959) too.
