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What weary aging heart wouldn't love to be 12 again on a Saturday afternoon, seated at the Palace Theatre waiting for the opening credits of "Jason and the Argonauts"? Remember the bronze giant Talos!
Even if you've never even heard of Don Chaffey's Jason and the Argonauts, you've probably seen at least one of the film's stunning visual-effects sequences. The skeleton battle found at the end of ...
There, “Jason and the Argonauts” is being performed with invention and spirit and storms and harpies and clashing rocks and even Spider-Man, just for fun. And the whole thing’s done by two guys.
More Homer Simpson than Homer, Scottish theater company Visible Fictions stages a laudably cute version of "Jason and the Argonauts," replete with action figures of everyone from Orpheus to ...
JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS. Sunday and Monday nights at 9, NBC. 3 1/2 Stars. The credits for “Jason and the Argonauts” are superimposed over a big battle sequence that’s also a big bore.
Fifty years ago Jason and the Argonauts was released, becoming an influence for filmmakers from Peter Jackson to Nick Park. Here are the five films which were inspired by Ray Harryhausen's ...
Every Greek myth should be so lucky as to get the fast-paced, flippant and fiercely funny treatment that “Jason and the Argonauts” receives in Oregon Children’s Theatre’s latest production.
Jason has been prophesied to take the throne of Thessaly. When he saves Pelias from drowning, but does not recognize him as the man who had earlier killed his father, Pelias tells Jason to travel ...
Next to the original Clash of the Titans, 1963’s Jason and the Argonauts is my second favorite film in the long line of Ray Harryhausen classics. Why? Two words, baby: skeleton warriors.