Captain Sindbad

1963
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1h 25m

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Heidi Brühl and Guy Williams in Captain Sindbad (1963)

To marry Princess Jana, Captain Sindbad must battle deadly obstacles and fight El Kerim, the evil ruler who also wants to marry the princess.To marry Princess Jana, Captain Sindbad must battle deadly obstacles and fight El Kerim, the evil ruler who also wants to marry the princess.To marry Princess Jana, Captain Sindbad must battle deadly obstacles and fight El Kerim, the evil ruler who also wants to marry the princess.

Director
- Byron Haskin
Writers
- Ian McLellan Hunter
- Guy Endore
Stars

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IMDb RATING

5.5/10

1.1K

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Director
- Byron Haskin
Writers
- Ian McLellan Hunter
- Guy Endore
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 nomination

Trivia
Pedro Armendáriz committed suicide one day before the film's American premiere.

Goofs
The parrot seen in the palace during the spider dance sequence is a South American species. South America and the rest of the New World would not have been known to the people living during the Abbasid Caliphate for at least 300 or more years.

Quotes
Galgo: There are three men before whom a woman need have no shame: her husband, her doctor and her magician.

Connections
Edited into Natural Born Killers (1994)

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Review

Featured review

7/10

Good Acting, good plot, lousy effects

For what it is worth, the Arabic is best transliterated as As-Sindibaad Al-Bahri, therefore Sindibad or Sindbad not Sinbad, so the name of the main character in this film is MORE accurate then the other "Sinbad" movies not less. The classic translation of the Arabian Nights remains that of Sir Richard F. Burton, who uses Sindibad. The primary problem with Captain Sindbad is that the special effects are awful even for the time that it was made. The acting is, overall, good. Guy Williams is a better actor then most of the other Sinbads and is a much better swordsman. (He actually could fence, not up to Basil Rathbone, who was superb, but much better then the average.) The plot is much better then usual and certainly as good as that of The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad. It would be interesting to see this film with new effects sequences inserted over the originals.