Clash of the Titans 1981 Harry Hamlin Yugoslavian poster

Clash of the Titans (1981) - (Harry Hamlin) Yugoslavian poster

This is an 18.5" x 28" Yugoslavian poster for the 1981 Desmond Davis film Clash of the Titans written by Beverley Cross and starring Harry Hamlin as Perseus. Plot summary: One of the hazards of having a pantheon of gods such as the Greek one is that mortals are liable to get caught up as pawns in the disputes and disagreements among the gods, who don't seem to have lives of their own. This is what happens to Perseus when he finds that his conflicts with mythological monsters have become matters of personal interest to the God Zeus, [Laurence Olivier] who favors him, and the goddess Thetis, [Maggie Smith] who opposes him.

Cast and crew: Desmond Davis, Beverley Cross, Harry Hamlin, Ursula Andress, Burgess Meredith, Laurence Olivier, Ray Harryhausen, Claire Bloom, Maggie Smith, Jack Gwillim, Susan Fleetwood, Pat Roach, Judi Bowker, Burgess Meredith, Siân Phillips, Flora Robson, Anna Manahan, Freda Jackson, Tim Pigott-Smith

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Wrath of the Titans (2012)

This is the two-headed dragon Sam Worthington fights as Perseus in the 2012 Jonathan Liebesman film The Wrath of the Titans, which is a sequel to the story Clash of the Titans, first told on screen in the 1981 Desmond Davis film with Laurence Olivier as Zeus and Harry Hamlin as Perseus. I'm a big fan of that 1981 film and try to watch all the remakes and rereleases derived from the story. I like this one a lot too, but there are some differences worth mentioning. For some reason, the winged horse Pegasus is now black instead of white. I'm not sure that's an improvement, but the monsters are more truly monstrous than they were in the 1981 film and Rosamund Pike is a better Andromeda than Judi Bowker was because she is a real woman with a wide range of emotions, and not just a fragile frightened beauty. Rosamund stamps with her sword among the trees and rocks in her leather leggings and sandals like a regular Amazon. She also has one of the best lines in the film: "We humans hope when there's no hope, we believe when it's idiotic and sometimes we prevail."

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