History Film / TheGoldenVoyageOfSinbad

Not to be confused with the [[MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]]-featured ''The Magic Voyage of Sinbad'' (actually the film ''{{Film/Sadko}}'').

With special effects by Creator/RayHarryhausen and a musical score by MiklosRozsa (who also scored the 1940 version of ''Film/TheThiefOfBagdad'') ''The Golden Voyage of Sinbad'' is definitely an enjoyable experience -- they don't make 'em like this anymore.

* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Sinbad's RagtagBunchOfMisfits are all conventionally gorgeous [[PrettyBoy young men]] and [[MsFanservice women]], except for the character whose disfigurement is part of the plot (and even he hides his face under a beautifully-designed metal mask except for one significant scene). Koura has a striking but not remotely pretty appearence, with CreepyBlueEyes and a huge, hooked nose, and becomes visibly older and uglier (with crackled skin and red-rimmed eyes) from the effects of his magic overuse. His allies consist of sailors with more asymmetrical faces than Sinbad's crew, heavily painted tribespeople, and monsters.

* BishounenLine: Koura starts off middle-aged, becomes increasingly elderly and twisted-looking as he starts throwing around more and more magic power, and then finally becomes younger looking than we've yet seen him for the final confrontation. Shortly followed by turning invisible, which may be considered a further increase in prettiness depending on your opinion of Tom Baker's appearence.

* HumanSacrifice: Mariana's birthmark signals that she is supposed to be one for the Cyclops Centaur

* MacGuffinLocation: The Fountain of Destiny

* NeutralFemale: Margiana, so much
* OccultBlueEyes / CreepyBlueEyes: Koura has strangely-coloured, unearthly blue eyes that receive a lot of camera and colour-contrast attention whenever he uses his magic. Played up with copious {{Eyedscreen}} and some truly stunning {{Idiosyncratic Wipe}}s where the scene transitions from a shot of his face ''around'' his eyes, leaving them staring disembodied over the emerging scene for a very unsettling effect.

* TheStoner: Haroun's father is tired of him lying around all day smoking hashish, so he pays Sinbad gold and a slavegirl to take the boy away.

* OurHomunculiAreDifferent

* EvilIsHammy: Sinbad's crew lives in a world of DullSurprise and {{Eye Take}}s. Koura is a universe unto himself of ChewingTheScenery, the EvilLaugh, wailing, trembling, moaning magic words in an ecstatic sort of way and shouting people's names really loudly.

* VillainsActHerosReact: The second half of the movie is just Koura overdoing the magic and variously attacking Sinbad's crew with possessed statues, magic exploding temples, green-skinned savages and so on, hoovering up the PlotCoupons as he goes. The only thing Sinbad's crew is really capable of is fighting off whatever he throws at them and chasing after him.

* CreepyCute: The bat-homunculus. It's a tiny little demon that seems scared of everything, communicates in adorable little chirps and Koura looks at it with clear affection, clucking at it to lure it onto his arm like it was a pet. Of course it's also a hostile creature created from his own blood...

* DeadpanSnarker: Sinbad. For example, when Haroun's father says Allah will smile upon Sinbad for taking on lazy Haroun, Sinbad quips, "More likely he will laugh in my face."

* DeadpanSnarker: Sinbad. For example, when Hassan's father says Allah will smile upon Sinbad for taking on lazy Hassan, Sinbad quips, "More likely he will laugh in my face."

* TheStoner: Hassan's father is tired of him lying around all day smoking hashish, so he pays Sinbad gold and a slavegirl to take the boy away.

* YouDidntAsk: Hassan is glad to finally be on land. When Sinbad asks him "Even dangerous land?" he panics, asking why Sinbad didn't tell him this was going to be dangerous. Sinbad responds with this trope.

* FakeNationality: Pretty much the entire cast. But unlike Harryhausen's ''other two'' Sinbad movies, everyone here actually ''looks'' Arabic and puts on an approximation of an Arabic accent.

* GoodScarsEvilScars: The Grand Vizier (who, as mentioned above, is a good guy, unusual for these sorts of stories) had his entire face burned off thanks to the mischief of Prince Koura, and so now wears a golden mask. He takes it off to scare some hostile tribesmen away, and later [[spoiler: regains his face when Sinbad crowns him Sultan]]
* HeyItsThatGuy: Prince Koura is played by [[Series/DoctorWho Tom Baker]].
** It should be noted that his performance as Koura was one of the main factors in Tom Baker's being picked by the BBC to play [[Series/DoctorWho the Doctor]].
** And Sinbad is played by Kalgon from SpaceMutiny.

* SadlyMythtaken: Kali.

* CastFromLifespan: Prince Koura can use black magic, but at the price of aging every time he casts a spell.

1974 ArabianNightsDays fantasy movie by Creator/RayHarryhausen starring John Philip Law, TomBaker, and [[MsFanservice Caroline Munro's Cleavage]].

* EverybodyLaughsEnding

With special effects by RayHarryhausen and a musical score by MiklosRozsa (who also scored the 1940 version of ''Film/TheThiefOfBagdad'') ''The Golden Voyage of Sinbad'' is definitely an enjoyable experience -- they don't make 'em like this anymore.

1974 ArabianNightsDays fantasy movie starring John Philip Law, TomBaker, and [[MsFanservice Caroline Munro's Cleavage]].

* HarryhausenMovie: One of his later ones.

* BenevolentBoss: Believe it or not, Prince Koura. He never indulges in a KickTheDog moment with his second-in-command, Ackmed, and as the final confrontation with Sinbad approaches Koura actually ''sends him to safety'' rather than place his life at risk.

* {{Flynning}}: all over the movie, particularly pronounced in the fight with Kali. The fight with Koura might be justified, as he's invisible at the time and the only visible part of him is his sword.

* LivingStatue: Kali and the animated figurehead.

* SavedByThePhlebotinum: Prince Koura's youth is restored by one of the tablets.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: what happened to Koura's second-in-command and the ship he came on? Koura sends the sailors who row him to Lemuria and later his second back to the ship, and that's the last we hear of it.

* BenevolentBoss: Believe it or not, Prince Koura. He never indulges in a KickTheDog moment with his second-in-command, Ackmhed, and as the final confrontation with Sinbad approach Koura actually ''sends him to safety'' rather than place his life at risk.