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Sinbad of the Seven Seas is a 1989 film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
 directed by Enzo G. Castellari
Enzo G. Castellari

Enzo G. Castellari is an Italy film director. He is the son of director Marino Girolami, aka Franco Martinelli. He made a name for himself during the 1960s by directing several spaghetti westerns with such titles as Go Kill and Come Back, Seven Winchesters for a Massacre and Go Kill Everybody and Come Back Alone....
 revolving around the adventures of Sindbad the Sailor. It claims to be based on Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe was an American poet, Short story writer, Editing and Literary criticism, and is considered part of the American Romanticism. Best known for his tales of Mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the Detective fiction genre....
's story "The Thousand and Second Tale of Scheherazade," though no similarity can be found between its plot and the story. The film borrows some elements and characters from the 1940 version of The Thief of Bagdad
The Thief of Bagdad (1940 film)

The Thief of Bagdad is a British 1940 in film fantasy film directed by Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell and Tim Whelan, with uncredited contributions by Alexander Korda, his brother Zoltan Korda and William Cameron Menzies....
.

The movie opens in the town of Basra
Basra

Al-Ba?rah is the capital of Basra Province, and had an estimated population of 1,052,200 as of 2003. Basra is also Iraq's main port. The city is the historic location of Sumer, the home of Sinbad the Sailor, and a proposed location of the Garden of Eden....
, where the evil vizier Jaffar has taken over the king's mind and imprisoned his daughter.






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Sinbad of the Seven Seas is a 1989 film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
 directed by Enzo G. Castellari
Enzo G. Castellari

Enzo G. Castellari is an Italy film director. He is the son of director Marino Girolami, aka Franco Martinelli. He made a name for himself during the 1960s by directing several spaghetti westerns with such titles as Go Kill and Come Back, Seven Winchesters for a Massacre and Go Kill Everybody and Come Back Alone....
 revolving around the adventures of Sindbad the Sailor. It claims to be based on Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe was an American poet, Short story writer, Editing and Literary criticism, and is considered part of the American Romanticism. Best known for his tales of Mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the Detective fiction genre....
's story "The Thousand and Second Tale of Scheherazade," though no similarity can be found between its plot and the story. The film borrows some elements and characters from the 1940 version of The Thief of Bagdad
The Thief of Bagdad (1940 film)

The Thief of Bagdad is a British 1940 in film fantasy film directed by Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell and Tim Whelan, with uncredited contributions by Alexander Korda, his brother Zoltan Korda and William Cameron Menzies....
.

The movie opens in the town of Basra
Basra

Al-Ba?rah is the capital of Basra Province, and had an estimated population of 1,052,200 as of 2003. Basra is also Iraq's main port. The city is the historic location of Sumer, the home of Sinbad the Sailor, and a proposed location of the Garden of Eden....
, where the evil vizier Jaffar has taken over the king's mind and imprisoned his daughter. In order to gain control of the city, he uses his magic to send four of the town's five sacred gems to far regions of the Earth, where they will be guarded by evil creatures. Sinbad, along with a small international crew, travel the world to retrieve the gems, fight magically-enhanced enemies, and save Basra. The movie culminates with a showdown between Sinbad and his evil twin, created by Jaffar.

The movie was made on a very low budget with a largely Italian
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 cast and crew. Like most low-budget Italian movies, it was filmed on location without sound equipment and all dialogue and sound effects were dubbed
Dubbing (filmmaking)

In film production, dubbing or looping is the process of recording or replacing voices for a motion picture. The term most commonly refers to voices recorded that do not belong to the original actors and speak in a different language from the one in which the actor is speaking....
 later. The film's low production values, over-the-top acting, and inept plot have made it a cult favorite among those who enjoy bad cinema for its unintentional humor.

Cast list

  • Lou Ferrigno
    Lou Ferrigno

    Louis "Lou" Jude Ferrigno is an American bodybuilding and actor. Ferrigno has appeared in such television program and feature film as Bill Bixby's bulky giant, The Hulk, in The Incredible Hulk , Pumping Iron, Sinbad of the Seven Seas, and Hercules in 1983....
     - Sinbad
  • John Steiner
    John Steiner

    John Steiner is an England actor. Tall, thin and gaunt, Steiner attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and worked for a few years at the BBC....
     - Jaffar
  • Roland Wybenga - Prince Ali
  • Alessandra Martines
    Alessandra Martines

    Alessandra Martines is an Italy-france dancer and actress, best known for her portrayal of Princess Fantaghir? in the Fantaghir? series and her interpretations under the direction of her husband, the French director Claude Lelouch, in several movies ....
     - Alina (Princess of All That Is Good)
  • Teagan Clive
    Teagan Clive

    Teagan Clive is an United States writer, bodybuilder and actress.Clive appeared in the music video "California Girls" with David Lee Roth which debuted on MTV at 9 PM Pacific Time, New Year's Eve, December 31, 1984....
     - Soukra
  • Haruhiko Yamanouchi - Chinese
    China

    China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
     soldier of fortune
    Mercenary

    A mercenary is a person who takes part in an armed conflict, who is not a national or a party to the conflict, and is "motivated to take part in the hostilities essentially by the desire for private gain and, in fact, is promised, by or on behalf of a party to the conflict, material compensation substantially in excess of that promised or p...
  • Cork Hubbert - Poochie the Dwarf
    Dwarfism

    Dwarfism is a medical term describing a person of short stature, with the most widely accepted definition of a dwarf being a person with an adult height of less than 4 feet 10 inches ....


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