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''The 7th Voyage of Sinbad'' is a 1958 Technicolor fantasy film from Columbia Pictures, produced by Charles H. Schneer and directed by Nathan H. Juran. This was the first of three Sinbad feature films from Columbia, the much later two being ''The Golden Voyage of Sinbad'' and ''Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger''. All three Sinbad films were conceptualized by Ray Harryhausen who used a full color widescreen stop-motion animation technique he created called Dynamation. While similarly named, the film does not follow the storyline of the tale "The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor" but instead has more in common with "The Fifth Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor", which featured the giant roc bird and its chick getting slain and eaten. ''The 7th Voyage of Sinbad'' was selected in 2008 for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". ==Plot== While sailing the Persian Gulf, legendary adventurer Sinbad the Sailor (Kerwin Mathews) and his crew find the island of Colossa, where they encounter Sokurah the magician (Torin Thatcher), fleeing from a giant cyclops. While they escape with their lives, Sokurah loses a magic lamp to the monster. Despite his desperate pleas to Sinbad to return him to the island, Sinbad refuses, since he is carrying Princess Parisa (Kathryn Grant) aboard, with whom he has fallen in love; their marriage is meant to secure peace between her father's realm and Sinbad's homeland Persia. After reaching Bagdad, the wedding is prepared, and Parisa's father (Harold Kasket) arrives as the main guest of honor. Sokurah is asked to perform his magic at the pre-wedding festivities, but despite his prowess the Caliph of Bagdad (Alec Mango) refuses to grant the magician his wish to be returned to Colossa. Later that night, Sokurah secretly shrinks Parisa to diminutive size, enraging her father to the point that he declares war on Bagdad. Facing this crisis, Sinbad and the Caliph finally give in to Sokurah, who explains that the main ingredient for releasing Parisah from her curse, the eggshell of a Roc, can be found only on Colossa. In order to alleviate their fears of the giant monsters on the island, Sokurah provides them with the construction plans for a giant crossbow. In order to make the journey, Sinbad recruits additional sailors from among the convicts in the Caliph's prisons. Before they reach the island of Colossa, the cutthroats mutiny and capture Sokurah, Sinbad, and his men. During a storm, the sounds of screaming demons from an island south of Colossa deafen the crew, endangering the ship of being dashed upon the island's jagged shoals. After the leader of the mutineers falls from the Crow's nest to his death, one of them releases Sinbad so he can save the ship. On the island of Colossa, Sinbad, Sokurah, and some of the sailors enter the valley of the Cyclops, where they find a treasure cave but are captured by the one-eyed monster. Sokurah abandons Sinbad and his men to regain the lamp but is trapped by the Cyclops. With Parisah's aid, Sinbad escapes, blinds the one-eyed monster, and lures it off the edge of a cliff to its death. With Sokurah's treachery revealed, Sinbad retains custody of the lamp until Parisah is turned back to normal. In the mountains at the center of the island, Sokurah leads Sinbad and his men to the nesting place of the giant Rocs. Finding an intact egg close to hatching, Sinbad's men crack it open and kill the Roc nestling inside, roasting it for food. While the men are eating, Parisah enters the lamp and befriends the childlike Genie of the lamp, Barani (Richard Eyer), who tells her how to summon him in return for his eventual freedom. The parent Roc returns and attacks the men, slaying several of them. Sinbad manages to retrieve both a fragment of an eggshell and the lamp, but he is grabbed up by the Roc, who eventually drops him unconscious in its nest. Amidst the confusion, the magician kills Sinbad's faithful aide Harufa (Alfred Brown), abducts the tiny princess, and takes her to his underground fortress. After regaining consciousness, Sinbad summons Barani, asking for his aid. Barani leads Sinbad to Sokurah's cave, which is guarded by a chained dragon, and helps him evade the monster. Sinbad reaches Sokurah, who restores the princess to her normal size. When Sinbad refuses to hand over the lamp, the magician animates a skeleton warrior to slay them. Sinbad battles and destroys the skeleton, and as he and Parisah make their way out of the cave, they honor their promise to the genie and destroy his lamp, setting him free. When the two leave the cave, they encounter another cyclops. Sinbad releases the dragon, who engages the cyclops in a fight to the death. Sinbad and Parisa make good their escape to the shore. Sokurah orders the victorious dragon to follow and kill them, but Sinbad's men have had time to assemble and arm the giant crossbow. The dragon is mortally wounded by the arrow from Sokurah's own invention, and the magician is accidentally crushed under the falling monster; Sinbad, Parisa, and the other survivors depart. They are joined by Barani, now human and Sinbad's new cabin boy, who magically placed the treasure of the cyclops in Sinbad's cabin as a wedding gift before his transformation. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The 7th Voyage of Sinbad」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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