en Gulliver%27s Travels (1977 film)

Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver's Travels
	Film poster
Directed by	Peter R. Hunt
Written by	Don Black (lyrics, screenplay)
Based on	Gulliver's Travels; by Jonathan Swift;
Produced by	Derek Horne (producer); Raymond Leblanc (producer); Josef Shaftel (executive producer)
Starring	Richard Harris; Catherine Schell; Norman Shelley; Meredith Edwards
Cinematography	Alan Hume
Edited by	Ron Pope
Music by	Michel Legrand
Production; company	Valeness-Belvision
Distributed by	Arrow Films; Sunn Classic Pictures
Release date	6 May 1977;
Running time	80 minutes
Countries	United Kingdom; Belgium
Language	English

Gulliver's Travels is a 1977 British-Belgian film based on the 1726 novel of the same name by Jonathan Swift. It mixed live action and animation, and starred Richard Harris in the title role.

Plot

The opening sequence in live action shows Gulliver announcing his intention to go to sea as a ship's surgeon, followed by scenes of a shipwreck. The remainder of the film has Harris on Lilliput and Blefuscu, with the tiny inhabitants created by animation.

The film ends with a cliffhanger: Having escaped by boat from Lilliput, Gulliver encounters one of the giant inhabitants of Brobdingnag, but there is nothing more about his adventures there or in the other lands mentioned in the novel.

Cast

Richard Harris as Gulliver
Catherine Schell as Mary
Norman Shelley as Father
Meredith Edwards as Uncle

Voice cast

Production

The film was not consistently funded during its production, which was noted by some reviewers who consider this production to be "low-budget".^[2]

Animation sequences were produced by Belvision

One of the voice actors, Denise Bryer, had previously done voice acting for a 1964 "Talespinners" children's record adapting Gulliver in Lilliput".

Reception

In comparison to other adaptations of the source material, this film is not well-received.^[2]^[3]^[4] In the words of one reviewer, "the film falls flat."^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b Maltin, Leonard, ed. (1983). TV Movies. p. 313. OCLC 1036903970.
^ ^a ^b VideoHound's Family Video Retriever. 1995. p. 166. ISBN 978-0-8103-7866-7.
^ Martin, Mick; Porter, Marsha (1996). Video Movie Guide 1997. Ballantine Books. p. 446. ISBN 978-0-345-40643-9.
^ Case, Christopher (1996). The Ultimate Movie Thesaurus. New York: Henry Holt and Company. p. 268. ISBN 978-0-8050-3496-7.

External links

Gulliver's Travels at IMDb

This article about an adventure film is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

[tvmovies00malt-1] Maltin, Leonard, ed. (1983). TV Movies. p. 313. OCLC 1036903970.

[VideoHound-2] VideoHound's Family Video Retriever. 1995. p. 166. ISBN 978-0-8103-7866-7.

[3] Martin, Mick; Porter, Marsha (1996). Video Movie Guide 1997. Ballantine Books. p. 446. ISBN 978-0-345-40643-9.

[4] Case, Christopher (1996). The Ultimate Movie Thesaurus. New York: Henry Holt and Company. p. 268. ISBN 978-0-8050-3496-7.

[1]

[2]

[3]