Golden Voyage of Sinbad 1973

The Golden Voyage of Sinbad was my favorite Ray Harryhausen film growing up, even surpassing the earlier Jason and the Argonauts which was my all time favorite film until this release.

It had all the ingredients of a great fantasy film, a good cast and some very good ship miniature work along with all the other scenic miniatures and the brilliant stop motion animated creatures.

There are two miniature ships in the movie, Sinbad's and that belonging to the Koura the villain played sympathetically by Tom Baker.

The ship models were shot at the Malta tank facility (see this post for more on tanks), while the rest of the miniatures were shot at the Verona studios near Madrid where the live action scenes were shot.

McHales Navy 1964 and McHales Navy Joins the Air Force 1965

Here are a couple of related minor entries in the list of movies with model ships in them.

The few miniature shots in each are not particularly noteworthy given the low budget nature of a movie version of a popular TV sitcom from the mid 1960's.