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I'm glad you had the Charles Scneer and Ray Harryhausen classic "The Golden Voyage of Sinbad" on your list. I saw it as a kid in '73 at the Greenway Plaza movie theatre in Houston Texas when I was about 10. Tom Baker's performance as the evil enchanter of the dark arts, the cruel sorceror Sakura, was an inspired performance, just as good as his turn as Rasputin in "Nicholas and Alexandra." Baker is an underestimated actor and I wish he'd done more movies. Of course any little boy seeing Sinbad was captivated by the beautiful Caroline Munro as Sinbad's cutey companion. Of Sneer's and Harryhausen's trilogy of Sinbad flicks, I think "Golden Voyage" is the best. It captures the spirit of the Arabian Nights better than any other movie outside of Alexander Korda's "Thief of Baghdad. Also, when I lived in Cairo Egypt many years ago, "Golden Voyage" was a favorite of my film buff friend Hanify, as well as many other Egyptians who still love and tell the tales of Shaherazad. Thanks for helping Sinbad to sail again.
