Word: harryhausen
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...exploiting almost all the cinema's techniques of trompe l'oeil, a daring special effects man named Ray Harryhausen has produced a celluloid illusion in which men and monsters, giants and midgets merge without a seam. Unfortunately, though, there are ragged lines in the script-which might be described as accelerated Swift. The dean's fans will, for instance, get a nasty turn when they discover that Gulliver (Kerwin Mathews) has a scantily clad girl friend (June Thorburn). And they may feel even worse when the hero tells her, in ponderous Jungian prose, that "the giants...