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THE 3 WORLDS OF GULLIVER

Saturday, January 17 at 12 Noon

The 3 Worlds of Gulliver is perhaps the least known of the Ray Harryhausen magical adventures, largely because it was withdrawn from circulation soon after its initial release. Kerwin Mathews, star of the Harryhausen classic Seventh Voyage of Sinbad (1957), stars as Jonathan Swift's globetrotting adventurer Lemuel Gulliver. His journeys take him to the teeny-tiny "world" of Lilliput, populated by giants Brobdignag, and England, where his attempts to relate his astonishing adventures threaten to have him locked up in a lunatic asylum. The film manages to retain a great deal of Swift's trenchant satire without detracting from the film's "fun for all ages" entertainment value. As always, Harryhausen's Dynamation special effects are superb. A lilting, semi-humorous musical score by Bernard Herrmann is the icing on this cinematic cake.

USA/UK, 1960, 100 min.