The Three Worlds of Gulliver
| The Three Worlds of Gulliver | |
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| Directed by | Jack Sher |
| Produced by | Charles H. Schneer |
| Written by |
Arthur Ross Jack Sher |
| Based on |
Gulliver's Travels 1726 novel by Jonathan Swift |
| Starring |
Kerwin Mathews June Thorburn Basil Sydney Sherry Alberoni |
| Music by | Bernard Herrmann |
| Cinematography | Wilkie Cooper |
| Edited by | Raymond Poulton |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Release date
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December 16, 1960 |
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Running time
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100 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The 3 Worlds of Gulliver as shown on the movie, is an Eastman Color 1960 Columbia Pictures fantasy film loosely based upon the 18th-century Irish novel Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. The film stars Kerwin Mathews as the title character, June Thorburn as his fiancée Elizabeth, and child actor Sherry Alberoni as Glumdalclitch.
Filmed in England and Spain, Gulliver was directed by Jack Sher and featured stop-motion animation and special visual effects by Ray Harryhausen. The cast includes Martin Benson as Flimnap, Lee Patterson as Reldresal, Jo Morrow as Gwendolyn, Mary Ellis as the Queen of Brobdingnag, Marian Spencer as the Empress of Lilliput, Peter Bull as Lord Bermogg, and Alec Mango as the Minister of Lilliput.
In 1699, Dr Lemuel Gulliver (Kerwin Mathews) is an impoverished surgeon who seeks riches and adventure as a ship's doctor on a voyage around the world. His fiancée Elizabeth (June Thorburn) strongly wishes for him to settle down, and the two quarrel.
Gulliver embarks on the voyage and is soon discovered that Elizabeth has stowed away aboard his ship to be near him. A storm develops and sweeps him overboard. Gulliver is washed ashore on Lilliput, a land of tiny humans who see him as a threatening giant. The Lilliputians are afraid of Gulliver and tie him down with stakes to the beach, but he eases their fears by performing several acts of kindness. An old quarrel between Lilliput and neighboring Blefuscu is revived, and Gulliver lends a hand by towing Blefuscu's warships far out to sea. Lilliput's Emperor (Basil Sydney) then views the giant as a threat to his throne after Gulliver is critical of the reasons for the war. Gulliver escapes in a boat he had previously built when the Emperor orders his execution.
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