Sinbad of the Seven Seas (1989)

Sinbad and his shipmates aid a young prince, who must battle an evil wizard to gain the hand of a beautiful princess.

Directors:

Enzo G. Castellari, Luigi Cozzi (uncredited)

Writers:

Ian Danby (additional dialogue), Luigi Cozzi (story) (as Lewis Coates)

Stars:

Lou Ferrigno, John Steiner, Roland Wybenga

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Lou Ferrigno	...	Sinbad
John Steiner	...	Jaffar
Roland Wybenga	...	Alì
Ennio Girolami	...	Viking (as Enio Girolami)
Hal Yamanouchi	...	Samurai (as Haruhiko Yamanouchi)
Yehuda Efroni	...	Ahmed
Alessandra Martines	...	Alina
Teagan Clive	...	Soukra (as Teagan)
Leo Gullotta	...	Nadir
Stefania Girolami Goodwin	...	Kyra (as Stefania Girolami)
Donald Hodson	...	Calif (as Donal Hodson)
Melonee Rodgers	...	Farida
Cork Hubbert	...	Midget
Romano Puppo	...	Captain
Attilio Cesare Lo Pinto	...	Zombie King (as Attilio Lo Pinto)

Storyline

Fantasy tale based on the tale of the legendary sailor. Here Sinbad must recover five magical stones to free the city of Basra from the evil spell cast by a wizard. His journey takes him to the isle of the Amazons where the queen tries to capture him, to a battle with ghost warriors on the isle of the dead, and ultimately to a battle with his own double.

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Plot Keywords:

rescue | seduction | slow motion | hand to hand combat | threatened with a knife | 

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Taglines:

A magical adventure.

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Genres:

Adventure | Fantasy

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Certificate:

PG-13

Details

Country:

Italy USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

1 December 1989 (Spain)

Also Known As:

Sinbad

Filming Locations:

Basra, Iraq

Company Credits

Production Co:

Cannon Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

93 min

Color:

Color (Telecolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The character wearing a skull mask and called The Great and Wise Oracle is actually a stock footage insert of the leader of the Moon Men taken from Hercules Against the Moon Men (1964), slightly modified by voiceover and light effects. In the movie's next scene battles a stone man on Skull Island. This can be understood as an homage to above-mentioned peplum, in which similarly fashioned stone men play an important role as well.

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Quotes

Soukra: There you go again, basking in your bubbles of fiction.

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Connections

Followed by Sinbad: The Fifth Voyage (2014)

User Reviews

The Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made

No, really. Sinbad is easily more entertaining than Plan 9 from Outer Space, which is more commonly considered the best bad movie ever.

I won't give away all the details that make this movie so laughably awful, but I'll mention a few that I hope will convince you to find and watch this film. (You can read a more comprehensive review at www.rinkworks.com/badmovie/m/sinbad.of.the.seven.seas.1989.shtml)

John Steiner hammimg up the role of Jaffar, the villain. In particular, he exclaims one two-letter word that must be heard to be believed. You'll know which one I mean when you hear it.

All the music is done by one guy on a synthesizer, a total of about five different sound effects are used in all the fight scenes, and all the lines are DUBBED OVER. It seems the filmmakers didn't have the ability to record live sound on the set.

All action scenes are done in slow motion, and this is made painfully obvious by Lou Ferrigno's flapping, overgrown, oiled man-pecs.

However, all these shortcomings pale in comparison to the dialogue. I'll conclude with a snippet:

Sinbad: Wait a minute. There's nobody here.

Poochie the Dwarf: There's nobody here.

Sinbad: I just said that. That's the point.