These movies were highly entertaining during their era and can be for later generations,IMHO. Optimism over cynicical sophistication.
One of the biggest regrets of my moviegoing years was not seeing Harryhausen at the AFI(DC) some thirty years ago. However, I did see ? Ellenshaw who did the mattes for numerous Disney films, Chuck Jones and a special showing of Snow White with some of the remaining Disney animators when I lived in Foggy Bottom.
shareYour comment is interesting because I was watching this film on dvd tonight I lamented missing all of these movies as a kid in the 1970's. I believe they still played at kiddie matinees in that era, well over a decade after they were made but there was no such kid-oriented matinees in my neck of the woods back then and I suspect these films being made by major studios like Columbia were much more pricey for local tv channels to book on their Sunday morning/afternoon movie slots for kid films so they just showed low-budget schlock on tv in my area instead of these movies.
Much I one praises Ray Harryhausen one has to acknowledge too though that Kerwin Mathews is the absolute perfect hero for these films (including the faux-Harryhausen JACK THE GIANT KILLER), he really is a storybook hero come to life.
He was great!
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