Divine prophecies and muscular men in very short skirts, or more of why I love sf/f
I’m not sure how old I was the first time I saw Columbia Pictures’ Jason and the Argonauts. I used to believe that I saw it in a movie theatre on the big screen for the first time as part of one of the series of kid-friendly matinees that I got to attend from the age of about 6 through 10… but after doing some research I discovered that the film wasn’t made available in theatres at that time. Because the film’s box office take from the first theatrical run in 1963 (just a few months before my third birthday) was underwhelming, it wasn’t re-released into the theatres until much later, after spending years as a staple in syndicated television, which is where it became a hit, prompting the studio to re-release it to a much more successful run in 1978...
(The rest of this longer than usual post that talks about the movie, along with my conclusions about its cultural significance, is at FontFolly.Net.)
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(The rest of this longer than usual post that talks about the movie, along with my conclusions about its cultural significance, is at FontFolly.Net.)
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