Lord of the three worlds
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Lord of the three worlds |
| Original title | The 3 Worlds of Gulliver |
| Country of production |
USA UK |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1960 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jack Sher |
| script |
Arthur A. Ross Jack Sher after Jonathan Swift |
| production | Charles H. Schneer |
| music | Bernard Herrmann |
| camera | Wilkie Cooper |
| cut | Raymond Poulton |
| occupation | |
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Lord of the Three Worlds (alternative title: Die Drei Welten des Gulliver ) is the title of an American - British Jonathan Swift film adaptation by Jack Sher from 1960. The film was released in Germany on December 20, 1960.
action
The plot of the film: Lemuel Gulliver is not particularly successful as a doctor because he is too good-natured and often does not allow himself to be paid for. His girlfriend Elizabeth wants to buy a house with him, but it's just an old hut. They quarrel about this. In order to get more money and to be able to offer Elizabeth more, he hires himself as a ship's doctor. Elizabeth went on board too. The ship sinks in a storm and Gulliver is stranded on Liliput , an island on which the inhabitants are very small. The Lilliputians are waging war against the neighboring island of Blefuscu over the question of whether a boiled egg should be cracked on the head or the thick end. The unconscious Gulliver is first handcuffed by the small residents and transported to the capital. After he has proven his "harmlessness" there, the king calls on him to attack the neighboring island and destroy the inhabitants. Gulliver only collects their ships. He does not want to allow himself to be further abused as a "war machine" and builds a boat to leave Liliput.
After a while at sea, Gulliver reaches Brobdingnag Island , a country where he is now the dwarf and the locals the giants. A "little" girl, Glumdalklitsch, finds him on the beach and takes him to the king. Here his arrival is astonishing and he meets Elizabeth again. Glumdalklitsch stays at the farm and looks after them. Gulliver takes Elizabeth as his wife. But scheming courtiers say Gulliver is a wizard and want to have him killed. Glumdalklitsch helps him and Elizabeth escape.
Both return home exhausted. Gulliver states that all three worlds, that of Liliput, that of Brobdingnag and his world are within each one. He returns home happy with Elizabeth.
Background information
Filmed on locations in Girona ( Spain ), Lord of the Three Worlds was the first real film adaptation of Gulliver's adventures. Old master Ray Harryhausen was responsible for the outstanding special effects. The film proved to be a flop financially, and it didn't win any awards.
synchronization
The German synchronized editing was created in 1960.
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Lemuel Gulliver | Kerwin Mathews | Gert Günther Hoffmann |
| Elizabeth | June Thorburn | Marianne Lutz |
| King of Lilliput | Basil Sydney | Arno Paulsen |
| Lord Bermogg | Peter Bull | Otto Czarski |
| Reldresal | Lee Patterson | Herbert Stass |
| Minister Flimnap | Martin Benson | Klaus Miedel |
| King Brobdingnag | Grégoire Aslan | Erich Fiedler |
| Queen of Brobdingnag | Mary Ellis | Dagmar Altrichter |
Reviews
- “ The adventures of Dr. Gulliver [...]. The ethical concerns of the political-satirical novel "Gulliver's Travels", z. B. the ideas of non-violent conflict resolution, are adequately expressed. "-" Lexicon of International Films "
- "The present version is certainly the most beautiful, which is not least due to the solid trick work of the world-famous stop-motion expert Ray Harryhausen, although the finished overall product does not, of course, achieve the viciousness of the literary original." - Lexicon of the fantasy film. 650 films from 1900 to 1986 .
- "Swift, clinically pure for children, with excellent special effects." - Alan Frank in: The Science Fiction and Fantasy Film Handbook.
The Wiesbaden film evaluation agency awarded the production the rating of particularly valuable .
media
DVD release
- Lord of the three worlds . Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2002.
Soundtrack
- Bernard Herrmann : The 3 Worlds of Gulliver. Original motion picture score . Original recording conducted by the composer. Cloud Nine Records, London 1993, sound carrier no. ACN 7018 / UPN 5-014929-701820.
- Bernard Herrmann: The 3 Worlds of Gulliver. The Motion Picture Score . New recording by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra conducted by Joel McNeely . Varèse Sarabande Records, Studio City 2001, sound carrier no. 302 066 162 2.
literature
- Jonathan Swift : Gulliver's travels in different countries around the world. (OT: Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World ). Winkler Weltliteratur, Blue Series. German by Kurt Heinrich Hansen. With illustrations by Grandville and an afterword by Uwe Böker . Artemis and Winkler, Düsseldorf 2006, ISBN 3-538-06325-7 .
Web links
- The Three Worlds of Gulliver in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Sound carrier with the film music
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lord of the Three Worlds (1960) in Arne Kaul's synchronous database ( Memento from January 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ); Retrieved September 17, 2010
- ^ Lexicon of International Films. (CD-ROM edition), Systhema, Munich 1997.
- ↑ Ronald M. Hahn , Volker Jansen, Norbert Stresau : Lexicon of Fantasy Films. 650 films from 1900 to 1986 . Heyne, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-453-02273-4 , p. 220.
- ↑ quoted from Ronald M. Hahn, Volker Jansen, Norbert Stresau: Lexikon des Fantasy-Films. 650 films from 1900 to 1986. Heyne, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-453-02273-4 , p. 220.