The castle guards try to stop the giant, but he overpowers them with relative ease and escapes. When Elaine is asleep later that night, Pendragon uses his magic to turn Cormoran back to his full size and captures Elaine. The reception goes well until Pendragon ( Torin Thatcher) arrives disguised as a foreign lord as a birthday gift, he gives Elaine a magical music box with a small anthropomorphic jester inside that walks and dances and which unbeknownst to Elaine is Pendragon’s giant minion Cormoran. Years later, the kingdom celebrates the crowning of Princess Elaine ( Judi Meredith). Pendragon, however, vows revenge and Herla dies, meaning a threat against Pendragon no longer exists. In the Duchy of Cornwall of fairy tale days, a malevolent sorcerer named Pendragon, ruler of giants, witches, hobgoblins, and all evil creatures, was defeated by the wizard, Herla, and along with his disciples, exiled to an uncharted, unknown island. Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow. The film brought together Mathews, Juran, Small, and actor Torin Thatcher, all four of whom worked on 7th Voyage. The original print without the music got released 30 years later with no protest from Columbia Pictures, while United Artists continues to own the rights to the musical version of the film.

The reason for the change to music was on the grounds that Columbia Pictures, which released The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, threatened to sue Small. Juran and later re-edited and re-released as a musical by producer Edward Small.

The film was loosely based on the traditional tale “ Jack the Giant Killer” and features extensive use of stop-motion animation. Jack the Giant Killer is a 1962 fantasy adventure film starring Kerwin Mathews in a fairy tale story about a young man who defends a princess against a sorcerer’s giants and demons. The poster art copyright is believed to belong to the distributor of the film, United Artists, the publisher of the film or the graphic artist. This is a poster for Jack the Giant Killer.

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