Also included are trailers that were missing from the indigenous releases of 7th VOYAGE (a nice 3-minute one, narrated by Katherine Grant! And whether you like today's effects-laden, CGI-intense films (or not), this one is worth viewing, if only to see how they used to make them. And if you don't want a revamped soundtrack, then you will be pleased to know that the original mono track is included too, and this sounds very good indeed. Supplements: Two commentaries with Ray Harryhausen and Tony Dalton, and Peter Jackson and Randall William Cook. One of the stronger parts of the movie is the attractive backdrops featuring real ancient ruins, as 'Jason and the Argonauts' was filmed on location at numerous places in Italy.

For years, 16mm copies of Jason placed Medea's temple dance way out of sequence, before the Argonauts reach Colchis. And with the addition of a couple of great commentary tracks, as well as the customary Harryhausen documentaries, this is marvellous value that won't, ahem, fleece you. Revelations, affectations and obsessive confessions abound in one of the geek-tracks to end them all in the second yak-fest. I was particularly interested in aspect ratio because the Criterion LD was full screen per Harryhausen's wishes.A triumph of Harryhausen's technique, the sequence must have required more animation work than the rest of the movie put together, as the seven skeletons fight in so many individual camera setups. The FX shots, more defined as they may be, are ghastly when compared to the sudden cuts to Phinius, on his own, as he scrambles to safety. This sequence is not only a technical achievement that has, and continues, to inspire throngs of artists and filmmakers all over the world, from Steven Spielberg to Sam Raimi to Peter Jackson, but it's a stunning, climactic set piece – the finale to an enormously entertaining piece of cult cinema. When we first meet Phineas, Patrick Troughton's Harpy-tormented old blind man, the scene, detailing the initial attack and the subsequent introduction between him and Jason and his Argonauts is now daytime. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH).

The sound in Jason and the Argonauts is less of an issue, and the Blu-ray offers both the original mono soundtrack as well as a quite full and impressive 5. The storyboards were only rediscovered five years ago and reveal plans for a scene where one of the skeletons was going to lose their head, but the idea never made it into the final animated battle. Containing a wealth of new and archival extras – including audio commentaries with the great Ray Harryhausen himself, a Jason and the Argonauts commentary with Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson, new interviews with SFX maestro Hal Hickel and genre-film expert Kim Newman – this collection is strictly limited to 6,000 units. This infuriates the Queen of the Gods -- Hera (Honor Blackman, best known as Bond girl Pussy Galore from ' Goldfinger'), who stops Pelias from harming Aristo's infant son Jason -- and reveals that a man wearing a single sandal will one day bring his doom. can be found on various Blu-ray editions of "The 3 Worlds of Guillver", "The 7th Voyage of Sinbad", "The Golden Voyage of Sinbad", and "Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger".If you know anything about these old Harryhausen films, you know that they don't, no matter what you do to the print, or how you transfer it, look anywhere near the standards by which many designate hi-definition.

With a crack crew of athletes and warriors, including the popular Hercules (Nigel Green), Jason sets sail in a proud ship built by Argos (Laurence Naismith).All this shows that some thought has gone into putting this mix together, that effects haven't just been lashed around the channels for the sake of it.