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Which film had a fight with a giant wasp or hornet?

posted 15 years ago by BillyFisher
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I was sure it was this film, but I just watched it and there was no such scene in sight.

I think there was someone on a ship, and a giant wasp or hornet flew in through a window. They had a sword fight with it, I think.

I know there's something with bees or wasps in Mysterious Island, but that's not it. I always thought it was a Harryhausen scene with Kerwin Mathews.

Anyone know the film?

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[–] Big G-2 15 years ago

It was in SINBAD AND THE EYE OF THE TIGER from 1977 with Patrick Wayne and a young Jane Seymour.

[–] raymilesprime 15 years ago

No no no, it was a much later adaptation of Gulliver's Travels that you remember.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115195/

Superior to this version in my opinion, and much truer to the book. Though I do love Harryhousen's creatures.

[–] stwadsworth 14 years ago

Mysterious Island has a giant bee or wasp in it!

[–] Blueghost 14 years ago

That's the one I was thinking of.

[–] Pharaoh-in-de-Nile 14 years ago

Though the later (rather great) adaptation did have giant wasps (as did the book) the scene BillyFisher mentioned involves a ship and a sword fight with the wasp/bee, which isn't a feature of the scene in 'Gulliver's Travels'.

As a previous poster mentioned it is most likely 'Sinbad And The Eye of The Tiger' which is a Harryhausen film but did not feature Kerwin Mathews (the first Sinbad in Harryhausen's films... in that case 'The 7th Voyage of Sinbad) but Patrick Wayne as the titular sea-captain.

The insect did not fly in the window though it actually grew and attacked Patrick Troughton's Greek scientist characte before being fought of by Sinbad and some of the crew being being pinned to a wall with a sword or knife.

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[–] mam13143 10 years ago

Well, both films had a giant flying insect - something Harryhausen was particularly adept at. Mysterious Island had the giant bee and Sinbad had the giant wasp which was really the evil witch. The latter had an actual fight with Troughton and Sinbad as OP said.

[–] MystMoonstruck 10 years ago

The giant wasp/hornet (For some reason, I can't recall which.) wasn't the sorceress/witch. Melanthius (Troughton) experiments with the fluid held in her necklace/charm by pouring some then watching as the insect tastes it. In response, it grows dangerously large and attacks him, followed by the skirmish.

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