Captain Sindbad

1963
Approved
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

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

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 nomination total

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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Featured review

8/10

My Favorite Sin(d)bad

I'm referring to Guy Williams, not the movie. The movie itself, though not up to Harryhausen's SEVENTH VOYAGE OF SINBAD, is nonetheless a lot of fun and far more entertaining that either GOLDEN VOYAGE OF SINBAD or the awful SINBAD AND THE EYE OF THE TIGER. Williams is excellent in the title role, physically perfect and far more dashing than any other actor I can think of in the part. And those who carp about the cheap special effects are (as usual) totally missing the point. Aside from the absurdity of using CGI as your yardstick (does anyone actually think the effects in AVATAR or LORD OF THE RINGS look real? Come on...) the manifestly theatrical menaces in CAPTAIN SINDBAD are part of the fun. The villain's pulsing disembodied heart, like a big satin pillow, is a clear tip-off: none of this is MEANT to be real! It's like an elaborate Christmas pantomime. And that giant mechanical hand is terrific. A cross between this movie and SEVENTH VOYAGE would have been the perfect Sinbad movie. Or Sindbad. Take your pick.