Scenes from CAPTAIN SINDBAD (1963)
The Hydra from this movie is difficult to gauge. It's not really believable and yet it's so elaborate and cool looking that it doesn't really matter if it doesn't look real. The entire movie, directed by Byron Haskin, who directed many classics, including THE WAR OF THE WORLD (1953), was used to working with special effects and the entire movie is filled with wildly erratic effects. The entire German - US production, a hit, is clearly shot in movie sets. The film has a fake studio-bound kitschy look and yet it's oddly visually interesting. This scene is definitely the highlight of the movie...well, after that crawling arm! 😂
I thought there were supposed to be only nine heads on the Hydra, so I checked:
ReplyDelete[... its number of heads was first fixed in writing by Alcaeus (c. 600 BC), who gave it nine heads. Simonides, writing a century later, increased the number to fifty, while Euripides, Virgil, and others did not give an exact figure.]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lernaean_Hydra
I suppose when faced with such a creature, no one really had enough time to count them. Also, two heads were supposed to grow to replace any one head that was cut off.
The movie is not accurate in anything, including Sinbad, spelled Sindbad here
ReplyDeleteAlso notable for Pedro Armendariz as the evil sultan, one of his last roles before his death. I saw this one in first run in the theatre in 1963!
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