The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960) on Netflix
NR19601h 39mAdventureFamilyFantasy
Dr. Lemuel Gulliver becomes a ship's doctor. His fiancée Elizabeth stows away to be near him; a storm sweeps him overboard and he washes ashore in Lilliput, a land of tiny people.
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In 1699, Dr. Lemuel Gulliver is an English physician who wants riches and adventure, so he signs on as a ship's doctor to travel the world. His fiancée Elizabeth wants him to settle down at home, and she stows away on the ship to stay near him. A storm rises and throws Gulliver into the sea. He washes ashore in Lilliput, where the people are tiny. They take him for a giant and tie him to the beach with stakes. He eases their fear with acts of kindness, and the Lilliputian emperor comes to trust him. Finance Minister Flimnap grows angry and envious of him.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960)
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- Producer Charles Schneer said director Jack Sher lacked the experience to direct the picture, so Schneer, cameraman Wilkie Cooper and Ray Harryhausen directed the camera themselves and let Sher talk the actors through their lines.
- Jack Sher wanted Jack Lemmon for the lead as Lemuel Gulliver, but Columbia did not want him, considering him a comedy actor, so Kerwin Mathews became really the only other choice.
- Jo Morrow was appearing in Our Man in Havana at the same time as she starred in this film, and she had an affair with director Jack Sher during filmmaking that she says affected her performance.
- The project began as an Arthur Ross script that he and producer Elliot Lewis pitched to NBC as a fantasy combining the Lilliput and Brobdingnag stories; the network approved it, but it died in a Writers Guild strike.
- The oldest Harryhausen model made for the film that still exists is the squirrel, which Harryhausen obtained from a taxidermist, while the original armature for the film's crocodile was mysteriously lost.
- The 3 Worlds of Gulliver featured 150 trick sequences and was the second film to use Ray Harryhausen's Dynamation process, after The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, which was the first.
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