Fun and attractive family tale starred by Gulliver : Richard Harris who during a storm he's washed ashore and discovers a fantasy land of small inhabitants called Lilliput .¨Gulliver's travels¨(1977) by Peter Hunt boasts a fine cast such as Richard Harris , Catherine Schell , including voices by Michael Bates , Julian Glover , David Prowse , Graham Stark , in which real life and cartoon mix in a three-dimensional tale . Concerning the animated version of Jonathan Swift's classic tale about a sailor who falls among tiny people . As Lemuel Gulliver washes ashore on Lilliput and attempts to prevent war between that tiny kingdom and its equally minuscule rival Blefuscu. Later on , he managed to convince them he's harmless and is accepted as one of their villagers , but the king wants to utilize him in war against other enemies . An exciting story of a man caught in a world of little people filled with giant adventures !. The Giant magical adventure! A happy event for the whole family !. The Amazing Characters in Jonathan Swift's Immortal Fantasy Come To Life !. Out of the Book...On to the Screen . Nothing less than a miracle in motion pictures!. A world of tiny Lilliputans..... A world of real romance and adventure... A Merry, Mirthful Musical Miracle . The screen's mightiest musical entertainment! 25,000 lovable, laughable Lilliputians.. smash song hits...and a million laughs!
This Gulliver's Travels (1977) being an animated and musical retelling about an English sailor who is washed ashore in the land of Liliput in the East Indies where everyone is about two inches tall . This mixture of animation and live-action results to be a charming and colorful family rendition of Jonathan Swift's classic as well as satiric novel written in 1726 . This is an entertaining tale with adequate and spectacular art direction , but old animation style , as well as spectacular and fantastic scenarios . Adding sentimental and evocative score by Michael Legrand , including a number of maudlin songs . Professional though uneven direction Peter H. Hunt , turning out to be just so-so and really average rendition loosely based of the famous Jonathan Swift satire . Hunt had a long career as a cinematic editor . Having started out in the film industry as a clapper boy , by the 40's he was working in the editing department and by the 50's he was an assistant editor then a fully fledged editor. And in 1962 worked as an editor on the first James Bond film , Dr No . Subsequently , he directed one of the best Bond films : ¨On her majestic's secret service¨with George Lazenby , furthermore ,¨Death hunt¨with Charles Bronson and ¨Shout the devil¨ with Roger Moore. Although the authentic filmmaker was producer Raymond Leblanc who created the animated images . Leblanc was a Belgian publisher who started the weekly magazine in 1946 with the participation of Georges Rémi ("Hergé") . Under Leblanc's guidance, the boy reporter ¨Tintin¨ became the hero of a weekly children's magazine, with Hergé as the artistic director and magnificent creator of the immortal personage . Later on , Leblanc produced the following films : Iznogoud ,1972 Lucky Luke el intrepid ,1970 Tintín in the temple of the sun ,1968 Astérix y Cleopatra and 1967 Astérix the Gaul and this Gulliver's Travels . Rating : 5/10 .
Other versions about this immortal novel are the following ones : classic cartoon¨Gulliver's travels¨(1939) by Max and Dave Fleischer¨ ; ¨The 3 Worlds of Gulliver¨ (1960) by Jack Sher with Kerwin Mathews , Lee Patterson , Grégoire Aslan ; TV adaptation ¨Gulliver's travels¨(1995) by Charles Sturridge with Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen , Edward Fox , Peter O'Toole , Edward Woodward , Ned Beatty , in which Gulliver is confined in Bedlam insane asylum after being lost at sea for eight years and he relates his odd adventures in the tiny land and among the giants and the silly and impractical intellectual of Laputa . And contemporary comical recounting ¨Gulliver's Travels¨(2010) by Rob Letterman with Jack Black , Jason Segel , Emily Blunt and Amanda Peet .
