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JASON
AND THE ARGONAUTS Twenty years after Pelias has deprived his half-brother Aeson of Thessaly’s sovereignty, Jason, Aeson’s son, demands his rightful crown. To be rid of Jason, Pelias persuades him to fetch the Golden Fleece. Jason, an ambitious soul in the full vigour of youth, cheerfully undertakes the expedition, embarking with all the princely heroes of Greece in the ship Argo. On the way the Argonauts are menaced by a bronze Titan, and leave behind Hercules when he goes in search of his friend Hylas; they next deliver the blind seer Phineas from the persecution of the Harpies. Approaching the dangerous Symplegades, two mobile, crushing sea-rocks, they are saved by the intervention of the goddess Hera, who sends a Triton to prop up the crumbling rocks. Guided by their new passenger Medea, priestess-daughter of King Aetes, they at last arrive in far-off Colchis. Aetes condemns Jason to death, but Medea frees him and leads him to the grove where the seven-headed Hydra guards the Fleece. Acastus, Pelias’ treacherous son, dies attempting to steal the Fleece from Hydra, which is itself slain by Jason. Aetes retaliates by sowing the Hydra’s teeth, and the armed skeletons which spring forth from the soil attack the Argonauts. After a fierce and successful battle, Jason returns to Thessaly with the Fleece and Medea.
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Directed
by: Don Chaffey. Art Director: Jan Read, Beverly Cross. Director
of Photography: Wilkie Cooper. Special Visual Effects: Ray Harryhausen.
Film Editor: Maurice Rootes. Music: Bernard Herrmann. Cast: Todd
Armstrong (Jason), Nancy Kovack (Medea), Gary Raymond (Acastus),
Laurence Naismith (Argus), Niall MacGinnis (Zeus), Michael Gwynn
(Hermes), Douglas Wilmer (Pelias), Jack Gwillim (Aetes), Honor Blackman
(Hera), John Cairney (Hylas), Patrick Troughton (Phineas), Andrew
Faulds (Phalerus), Nigel Green (Hercules), John Crawford (Polydeuces),
Douglas Robinson (Euphemus), Fernardo Poggi (Castor). Production:
Morningside Worldwide. Production: Charles H. Schneer. Length: 103
min. Colour.