June 13, 1962 –
The fantasy adventure film, Jack the Giant Killer, directed by Nathan H. Juran, and starring Kerwin Mathews, Judi Meredith, and Torin Thatcher, opened in the US on this date.
When Charles Schneer and Ray Harryhausen were looking for a producer for The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, one of the hopefuls was Edward Small, who turned them down. When Sinbad proved to be a huge hit, Small was determined to duplicate the former movie with the same director and stars. Although he couldn’t get Harryhausen, Jim Danforth came close to duplicating Sinbad’s monsters with Cormoran, the flying dragon, and the Imp instead of the Cyclops, Dragon, and Genie.
The Haus of Dcaligari 