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''The 3 Worlds of Gulliver'' is a 1960 American {{fantasy}} adventure film directed by Jack Sher and inspired by the Creator/JonathanSwift novel ''Literature/GulliversTravels''. It stars Kerwin Mathews as the title character, June Thorburn as Elizabeth, and child actress Sherry Alberoni as Glumdalclitch. The special effects were the work of Creator/RayHarryhausen, and Music/BernardHerrmann composed the soundtrack. It is the second film Matthews, Harryhausen and Hermann have collaborated on after ''Film/The7thVoyageOfSinbad'', and the latter two would work on ''Film/JasonAndTheArgonauts'' three years later.

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''The 3 Worlds of Gulliver'' is a 1960 American {{fantasy}} adventure film directed by Jack Sher and inspired by the Creator/JonathanSwift novel ''Literature/GulliversTravels''. It stars Kerwin Mathews Creator/KerwinMatthews as the title character, June Thorburn as Elizabeth, and child actress Sherry Alberoni as Glumdalclitch. The special effects were the work of Creator/RayHarryhausen, and Music/BernardHerrmann composed the soundtrack. It is the second film Matthews, Harryhausen and Hermann have collaborated on after ''Film/The7thVoyageOfSinbad'', and the latter two would work on ''Film/JasonAndTheArgonauts'' three years later.
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* StopMotion: The squirrel, and the crocodile Gulliver must fight near the end, are both stop motion creatures animated by Creator/RayHarryhausen. The film is one of Harryhausen's lesser known works due to not having stop motion creatures outside those two, despite Harryhausen's other special effects fields (ChromaKey and {{Matte Shot}}s especially) being put to use here.

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* StopMotion: The squirrel, and the crocodile Gulliver must fight near the end, are both stop motion creatures animated by Creator/RayHarryhausen. The film is one of Harryhausen's lesser known works due to not having stop motion creatures outside those two, two (and not so spectacular at that), despite Harryhausen's other special effects fields (ChromaKey and {{Matte Shot}}s especially) being put to great use here.
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* {{Bowdlerise}}: The {{satire}} aspects of the novel are largely absent, the special effects-heavy adventure crafted with Gulliver's two most well known adventures largely dominates the picture.

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* {{Bowdlerise}}: The {{satire}} aspects of the novel are largely absent, the special effects-heavy thrills and adventure crafted with Gulliver's two most well known adventures voyages largely dominates dominate the picture.
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* StopMotion: The squirrel, and the crocodile Gulliver must fight near the end, are both stop motion creatures animated by Creator/RayHarryhausen. The film is one of Harryhausen's lesser known works due to not having stop motion creatures outside those two, despite Harryhausen's other special effects fields ({{Matte Shot}}s especially) being put to use here.

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* StopMotion: The squirrel, and the crocodile Gulliver must fight near the end, are both stop motion creatures animated by Creator/RayHarryhausen. The film is one of Harryhausen's lesser known works due to not having stop motion creatures outside those two, despite Harryhausen's other special effects fields ({{Matte (ChromaKey and {{Matte Shot}}s especially) being put to use here.
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* ChromaKey: Used by Harryhausen to achieve some of the scale effects.
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* CoupDeGrace: After stabbing the crocodile once in its throat with the sword-shaped brooch, which leaves the beast agonizing, Gulliver delivers a killing blow by stabbing it in the throat a second time.
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** Gulliver and Elizabeth themselves when they're in Brobdingnag, which is populated by humans who are giants to them. When in Brobdingnag, they are housed in a doll palace.

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** Gulliver and Elizabeth themselves when they're in Brobdingnag, which is populated by humans who are giants gigantic compared to them. When in Brobdingnag, they They are housed in a doll palace.
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* StopMotion: The squirrel, and the crocodile Gulliver must fight near the end, are both stop motion creatures animated by Creator/RayHarryhausen. The film is one of Harryhausen's lesser known works due to not having much stop motion past these two, despite Harryhausen's other special effects fields ({{Matte Shot}}s especially) being put to use here.

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* StopMotion: The squirrel, and the crocodile Gulliver must fight near the end, are both stop motion creatures animated by Creator/RayHarryhausen. The film is one of Harryhausen's lesser known works due to not having much stop motion past these creatures outside those two, despite Harryhausen's other special effects fields ({{Matte Shot}}s especially) being put to use here.
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** The voice of the Brobdingnag giants is also booming when in Gulliver's presence, although more inconsistently.

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** The voice voices of the Brobdingnag giants is are also booming when in Gulliver's presence, although more inconsistently.
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* WoodlandCreatures: When in the forest of Brobdingnag, Gulliver is attacked by an oversized (to him) squirrel that drags him into its underground burrow.
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* FungusHumongous: Mushrooms are quite large from Gulliver's and Elizabeth's perspective when they're on Brobdingnag.
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''The 3 Worlds of Gulliver'' is a 1960 American {{fantasy}} adventure film directed by Jack Sher and inspired by the Creator/JonathanSwift novel ''Literature/GulliversTravels''. It stars Kerwin Mathews as the title character, June Thorburn as Elizabeth, and child actress Sherry Alberoni as Glumdalclitch. The special effects were the work of Creator/RayHarryhausen, and Music/BernardHerrmann composed the soundtrack. It is the second film Matthews, Harryhausen and Hermann have collaborated on after ''Film/The7thVoyageOfSinbad''.

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''The 3 Worlds of Gulliver'' is a 1960 American {{fantasy}} adventure film directed by Jack Sher and inspired by the Creator/JonathanSwift novel ''Literature/GulliversTravels''. It stars Kerwin Mathews as the title character, June Thorburn as Elizabeth, and child actress Sherry Alberoni as Glumdalclitch. The special effects were the work of Creator/RayHarryhausen, and Music/BernardHerrmann composed the soundtrack. It is the second film Matthews, Harryhausen and Hermann have collaborated on after ''Film/The7thVoyageOfSinbad''.
''Film/The7thVoyageOfSinbad'', and the latter two would work on ''Film/JasonAndTheArgonauts'' three years later.

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