Zeus (Laurence Olivier) gazes down from the The beautiful Princess Andromeda (Judi Bowker). It's very close to Seriphos, the island where legend has it that Perseus, the son of Zeus, was washed ashore in a trunk." In the movie, Harry Hamlin plays Perseus and fights an assortment of outlandish creatures in an attempt to save In an interview with Dan Scapperotti for Cinefantastique magazine, screenwriter Beverly Cross recalled, "I had the idea for Clash of the Titans in 1969 while I was living in Greece, on an island called Skiathos. Here they're playing toga-clad second bananas to Harryhausen's fantastical creations. It features a stellarĬast of actors, many of them famous for their stage work in Shakespearean productions. So the producers aimed higher with Clash of the Titans. Unusually inventive but just as equally hamstrung by weak casting and wooden performances. Harryhausen's previous ventures, such as Jason and theĪrgonauts (1963) and The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1974), were In many ways, Clash of the Titans is best suited forĬhildren, though the by-now quaint nature of its effects should delight movie fans Photographed frame by frame to create the illusion of life. Produced through sweat - his creatures were moved inch by inch, then The Sea (1955) had only five arms, instead of eight). Harryhausen was working well before the dawn of computer animation and hugeīudgets (due to lack of money, his giant octopus in It Came from Beneath The main difference between Harryhausen and Lucas, of course, was that Getting with a Harryhausen stop-action film, and he was more than happy to
Reverence by fantasy aficionados around the world. Harryhausen was the first effects wizard whose name was uttered with Team may have perfected this sort of thing with Star Wars (1977) (which has reached the level of overkill with the recent Lord of the Rings epics) but George Lucas and his Industrial Light and Magic Mythological spectacle Clash of the Titans (1981), is the father of modern For better or worse, Ray Harryhausen, the visual wizard behind the