The movie of Jack the Giant Killer – directed by Nathan Juran, who also directed The 7th Voyage of Sinbad – follows the adventures of a dashing farmer named Jack ( Kerwin Mathews), who upon saving the lovely Princess Elaine ( Judi Meredith), promptly falls in love with her. The Black Prince seen here kicking it back in his crib. Another strange choice was in giving the villain the name Pendragon, as that name is most commonly associated with King Arthur’s lineage, but as Pendragon is a title given to an ancient British or Welsh prince - one holding or claiming supreme power - we can understand our “Black Prince” taking that name. Even though this makes the film’s title technically accurate – as he does kill a giant – it’s a little bit of a letdown in that area, nonetheless. Now in the case of Edward Small’s Jack the Giant Killer, we are introduced to Jack as he kills a giant – saving a lovely princess in the process – but that is the only giant he kills in the film’s 94-minute running time we do get a second giant, but it’s killed by a sea monster and not Jack. Myth Note: The Cornish folklore of “Jack the Giant Killer” regales us with tales of a young farmer named Jack whose exploits under the rule of King Arthur pitted him against a variety of giants, and after killing many of them – to the point that the species must have been on the brink of extinction – Jack was given a seat at the famous Round Table. “Once upon a time, there was a well-dressed sorcerer.” The Black Prince (Pendragon’s nom de plume) and his minions were then exiled to a land beyond the known world - I’m guessing Ireland - a place where Pendragon could scheme and wait for his eventual return to power in Cornwall. The movie begins with an opening that should be familiar to Disney fans – a big bejewelled storybook setting up the tale we are about to experience – from which we learn of an evil sorcerer named Pendragon, who rules over an army of giants, witches and hobgoblins, and whose reign of terror was stopped by the great wizard Herla.
Though it did have a pretty great poster.
It was the success of Harryhausen’s Sinbad film that spurred Edward Small to make his own fantasy adventure tale – using the same stop-motion techniques found in Harryhausen’s film – and that it had a less than successful impact on the box office should be a surprise to no one. Fighting for a kingdom, its people, and the love of a brave princess, he comes face to face with the unstoppable warriors he thought only existed in legend-and gets the chance to become a legend himself.If imitation is the highest form of flattery, then special effects master Ray Harryhausen should have felt very flattered when producer Edward Small released his fantasy film Jack the Giant Killer back in 1962 – a film that not only borrowed elements from Harryhausen’s 1958 film The 7th Voyage of Sinbad but also its director and two of its primary cast members – and what makes the whole thing even funnier, is that Harryhausen had approached Small back in 1957 to help produce The 7th Voyage of Sinbad but Harryhausen couldn’t even get past Small’s secretary. Unleashed on the Earth for the first time in centuries, the giants strive to reclaim the land they once lost, forcing the young man, Jack, into the battle of his life to stop them. Here’s the official synopsis for Jack The Giant Slayer Jack the Giant Slayer tells the story of an ancient war that is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants. In case you haven’t already watched it, check out Jack The Giant Slayer trailers.
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Jack will have his hands full from March 1st, 2013. The fantasy movie, which was re-named after previously being titled Jack The Giant Killer, also stars Ian McShane, Warwick Davis, Eddie Marsan, Ewen Bremner, Billy Nighy and is narrated by Ian McKellen. New Line Cinema has released two new posters for director Bryan Singer’s Jack The Giant Slayer, an action-packed, fantasy adventure based on the Jack And The Giant Beanstalk tale and stars Skins’ Nicholas Hoult in the titular role.
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