Whatever Happened to CLASH of the TITANS?

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[Scottzilla]

Ray Harryhausen was a genius. I rekon the skeleton fight in Jason and the Argonauts was the most amazing thing he ever did.

[TeslaTales]

The owl was the coolest effect/prop.
Great flick.

[SirSmoldham]

Boy, do I have a story about this one. After working on a Bela Lugosi documentary at the "Ackermansion", I started hanging with the "Horrorwood Brat Pack" (Ackerman, Harryhausen, Bradbury). After the two "Rays" spoke at our film school, I asked my first celebrity question to Harryhausen. "At the end of "Jason and the Argonauts" you clearly set up a sequel. Are we going to see it?" Harryhausen paused for the first time to contemplate. A few years later I get an invitation at our school from Ray Bradbury to attend a screening at the Acadamy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and it is for THIS film, where Bradbury formally introduced Fay Wray to Ray Harryhausen and I saw him for the fan boy he always was. I miss those gentlemen. Bonus... I worked on a lot of documentaries around the Black Sea. When we went to Spain, I actually recognized locations used in this movie, Jason and the Argonauts, 7th Voyage of Sinbad and One Million Years B.C. What a thrill.

[Francis-Gamble]

I met Ray Harryhausen at a book signing in Glasgow, Scotland, just before he died. I brought a bunch of soundtracks scored by Bernard Herrmann and Laurence Rosenthal, from movies he was involved in and he signed every one for me. He said he was very good friends with the composers and he just loved their scores for these movies. He also loved my albums, as they were in mint condition and my interest in film scores. He had one of the original skeletons from Jason and the Argonauts sitting beside him and he let me handle it. He was so nice and he keep talking to me and would probably talked longer, if it wasn't for the giant queue behind me. What a great man and what a great memory I have of him.

[stevenlornie]

Seeing the Harryhausen exhibit in Edinburgh was a dream come true. So many of his surviving creatures were there. Once in a life time.

[renaissancepoet]

The Medusa scene is still the best version of Medusa ever put on film.

[SimonLeicester]

I love your presentation style. Informative and just easy on the ear without any of the usual histrionics.
Great film and cast too

[andrewgrant]

Here's a cool Harryhausen fact. I was looking in the underbelly of a NE theater when I found a strip of old film. I smiled w/ glee as I saw a few skeletons w/ swords drawn fighting a guy in a toga. Forgotten for years, I had discovered a few frames of (most likely) Jason & the Argonauts!

[FIREBRAND]

Speaking of the Stygian Witches, one of them was played by famed British actress *Flora Robson* know for playing Queen Elizabeth I in 1937's _Fire Over England_ opposite Olivier and 1940's _The Sea Hawk_ opposite Errol Flynn. In 1945 she was nominated for an Academy Award for the American western _Saratoga Trunk_ opposite Gary Cooper. . She later appeared on British and American TV. Clash was her last movie appearance. Sometimes you never know who you'll find under the makeup.

[ZOMb]

Loved these kind of movies back in the day...I could actually go to movie, have pop corn and a drink and still have money after.. Miss those days ..

[FranklyPeetoons]

When you mentioned the waning days of stop motion monsters, I wondered if there would be future MM&M episodes about Caveman (1981) and Dragonslayer (1981 go-motion). Dragonslayer is the movie which essentially caused Harryhausen to step away! He visited the production stage, saw all the computer gear hooked up to the dragon, said "I ain't learning all that new stuff", and shut down the in-preproduction SINBAD ON MARS movie. He then retired - at age 60. (Dragonslayer's Phil Tippett is still going strong at age 72, however, turning out masterpieces such as 2021's stop-motion MAD GOD - hey, maybe you could do a MAD GOD episode)

[susandolan]

Harryhousen was already retired when Clash came out. He was talked into coming back to do this one last movie and thank God he did.

[radioflyer]

I think we'll see "How Cool Is That?" T-Shirts appearing pretty soon.

[johnsaul]

Growing up this was one of the movies I saw a thousand times
It was always on some cable station on the weekends

[historybuff]

Wonderful video, Dan. Would love to see a Ray Harryhausen-Charles H. Schneer retrospective on the four films they produced from 1958-1963, singling out the legendary composer Bernard Herrmann. (“7th Voyage of Sinbad”, “The 3 Worlds of Gulliver”, “Mysterious Island” and “Jason and the Argonauts”).

[athag]

Hamlin was in a relationship with Ursula Andress. The pair had a child together. They were together from 1979 to 1983. Harry Hamlin's young co-star was married to someone else.

[killbotprime]

Need "How Cool Is That?" merch, mister Dan, stat!

[davidchristensen]

It ‘s fun to see the subscribers grow everyday.

[jerryziegner]

I remember going to the theater in 1981 with my friends and our moms. I remember being a little scared of Medusa. I had a few of the toys.

[mikebasil]

Neil McCarthy as Calibos was the most interesting character for me. Specifically for the differences between the closeups on him and the animated full body shots. My favorite memory was Bubo. For finding some original movie versions more appealing than remakes, I include Clash Of The Titans on my list. Thank you, Dan, for your review.