Friday, October 03, 2025

Jason and the Argonauts

 

I was listening to the Rest is History and I decided to give this one a whirl. You will have seen clips of it over the years. The actual film is a bit of a less down

Partick Troughton and Honor Blackman guest star. The male and female leads are forgotten. Indeed per wiki I note the male lead was dubbed 

Ray Harryhausen gives us a terrifying scene with the Argonauts fights and dying against the skeletons

The steam powered bronze titan is good

It is interesting they had an older Hercules- the Sgt from Zulu no less. He here before his labours

I liked the fact that the enemy mooks were in Scythian clothes

It precedes a lot of modern media- great special effects, brilliant actors in cameo, but a bit of a let down. There is even sequel bait

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