Ray Harryhausen's return to the fantasy genre is rather more exotic that usual and probably owed more to 'The Thief of Baghdad' than 'Jason and the Argonauts'; to which end a score was commissioned by the original composer Miklos Rozsa.
The tone is darker and the eye that in 'The Thief of Baghdad' adorns the prow of a ship is here tattooed on the palm of the right hand of dusky maiden Caroline Munro. The monsters are smaller (Douglas Wilmer in a gold helmet is the closest we come to Talos) including the figurehead of a ship and a statue of Kali brought clanking into life, the biggest being a one-eyed Minotaur brandishing a club; while memories of Patrick Troughton in Harryhausen's earlier film is evoked by his successor Tom Baker's presence as a meanie with improbably blue eyes.
The tone is darker and the eye that in 'The Thief of Baghdad' adorns the prow of a ship is here tattooed on the palm of the right hand of dusky maiden Caroline Munro. The monsters are smaller (Douglas Wilmer in a gold helmet is the closest we come to Talos) including the figurehead of a ship and a statue of Kali brought clanking into life, the biggest being a one-eyed Minotaur brandishing a club; while memories of Patrick Troughton in Harryhausen's earlier film is evoked by his successor Tom Baker's presence as a meanie with improbably blue eyes.