"The 7th Voyage Of Sinbad", 1958

                                                 
Tagline: "Eighth Wonder Of The Screen!" I bet the other seven weren't the Police Academy series.

Plot: While sailing with Princess Parisa to Baghdad (and to their wedding) Sinbad stops on Colossa Island for food for his starving crew. They are greeted by a magician named Sokurah who is battling a giant Cyclops. (That's the Cyclops on the left, played by Nicki Minaj....just kidding. The Cyclops isn't that ugly.)

 Between Sinbad, his men and Sokurah's magic genie, they get away, but the magician loses his lamp and it's genie.

Sokurah offers a "king's ransom" to go back to the island and retrieve the lamp, but Sinbad won't budge. After all, he has a wedding to attend. The "King" Of Baghdad is partying it up with his former enemy, the Sultan of Chandra, in celebration of their children marrying each other. Sokurah, the magician, sees this as an opportunity to force a return to his island to retrieve his precious lamp. Secretly, he shrinks the Princess and then offers up a cure, but only if he can go back to Colossa Island. Sinbad agrees and scours the local prison for his motley crew, (not the band). Things go from bad to worse ("Well, that escalated quickly.") and it isn't long before Sokurah reveals his true colours.

Ray Harryhausen at his finest, I must say. What? You don't know who Ray Harryhausen is? GET OFF MY BLOG! Come back when you've Googled Ray Bloody Harryhausen! What the hell is the matter with you kids today? With your rap music and your body piercing and your iPhones! Why, when I was your age we didn't have movies! Eyeballs hadn't been invented yet! We just had to feel around and imagine fun things! Where was I?....oh yes:

...at his finest. Ray Harryhausen was computer-generated special effects before computers. That was all stop-motion effects. Each figure moved just a teeny bit and filmed one frame at a time. That man had more patience in his little finger than I have in my....ah, screw it. I don't have time to think of an analogy. I'm a serious fan. All the really awesome b-movies have Harryhausen in them somewhere. Here's just a few: Mighty Joe Young (King Kong's little cousin), 20 Million Miles To Earth (please don't bother the Ymir), The Valley Of Gwangi, The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms, It Came From Beneath The Sea, and Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers. And those are just the totally awesome ones!

Things I learned from this movie: 1- It's pretty frickin' cool, 2- apparently the first 6 voyages weren't worth making a movie about, 3- for safety reasons you should keep your tiny Princess in a tiny metal box,

 4- recognize the magician? he was in "The Return Of The Archons" on the original Star Trek, 5- "Sinbad" was born in Seattle, 6- four armed snake chick at 19 minutes,

7-  that giant two-headed bird would make a crap-ton of KFC,

 8- conversation:"I will meet you at the magician's castle."..."How will I know?"...you think you'll mistake it for some other magician's castle on this barren island filled with monsters?, 9- sometimes casting evil spells makes you go cross eyed,

 10- "Princess Parisa" was born in Texas....is ANYBODY in this movie born East of the Pecos?