Jack the Giant Killer (1962)

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Just to be clear, this is not, as I had automatically assumed, about Jack and the Beanstalk. Also, it’s worth pointing that the stop-motion animation is not, as I had equally automatically assumed, the work of Ray Harryhausen. It hadn’t occurred to me that anyone else could follow in Harryhausen’s footsteps, especially when this number has gathered together some of the other constituents of Harryhausen’s first gem, The Seven Voyages of Sinbad (1958), namely star Kerwin Matthews, co-star Torin Thatcher and director Nathan Juran

This falls into the “See!” (don’t forget the exclamation mark!) category of moviemaking when the audience is expected to sit transfixed as strange creatures appear one after the other and in between is very much of the ho-hum variety…

Popcorn Facts

• The film’s effects team used multiple scale models to achieve the giant sequences.
• Nathan Juran’s fantasy work helped shape mid‑century adventure cinema.
• The movie’s colourful aesthetic was designed to evoke illustrated storybooks.
• Several creature effects required complex multi‑pass optical printing.

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