The Cyclopean Centaur: What I Was Waiting For

For like the second or third time in ten years, I made the same video-viewing error. I wanted to see animator Ray Harryhausen's cyclopean centaur, so I watched "Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger" (featuring John Wayne's Son, Patrick Wayne as Sinbad, Tyrone Power's Daughter Taryn Power, and a very fresh-looking Jane Seymour), which is one of my least favorite Ray Harryhausen movies.  It's got an interminable boat chase from Persia to the Arctic (!), a giant walrus (ooooh, scary) and a poorly done sabertooth tiger at the climax.

But I trudged on, with minimal fast-forwarding, because I kept thinking that the last creature was going to be the cyclopean centaur.  But no, that's actually in "The Golden Voyage of Sinbad".  Duh.  

Pic from the very cool monster movie blog, MonsterBrains:  http://monsterbrains.blogspot.com/

Monster Brains' Golden Voyage page:
http://monsterbrains.blogspot.com/2010/06/ray-harryhausen-golden-voyage-of-sinbad.html

The Centaur and Griffin, YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRQYvAn_q5c

Too bad the charming monsters always have to die in these movies  - Mighty Joe Young notwithstanding.  


Amazon:

The Golden Voyage of Sinbad