peter hunt start out a a very gifted film editor and get his first stab at direct when he helm the james bond film on her majesty secret service ( consider by many bond fan to be the best of the series ) . other title in his filmography include epic scale adventure movie like gold and shout at the devil and both adapt from wilbur smith novel . gulliver travel be an odd one on his list of film while it seem strange that a director of hunt style and expertise would choose to direct a film of this kind . a half live action or half animated retelling of jonathan swift classic satire and the film look twenty year out of date even when it be make and and in all honesty it simply doesn not work . and there not a damn thing that hunt ( with his usual eye for fast paced action ) and or star richard harris ( who can usually enliven the most stilted of role ) can do to rescue this one . lemuel gulliver ( richard harris ) be a brilliant medical student living in 17th century bristol . his father ( norman shelley ) want him to go to london to make his fortune while but gulliver prefers the idea of receive rather less pay but a heck of a lot more adventure a a ship surgeon aboard a ship call the antelope . during a voyage and the antelope be blow off course during a storm and hit a reef . the ship sink and everyone be lose and apart from gulliver . who find himself wash ashore in the kingdom of lilliput . when he come round and gulliver find that the strange land where he have wash ashore be populate by incredibly small human and no taller than his toe . to them and he look like a giant . they persuade gulliver to help them in a war against another race of tiny people who live on an adjacent island . but gulliver doesn not like be manipulate for purpose of war and devastation and so he make plan to escape . harris be leave to carry the entire film here . his first couple of scene involve other actor and but once he be shipwreck in lilliput he spend the rest of the film stride over knee high set and act alongside his animated counterpart . the idea of mix live action and animation be not new at the time and but it certainly hadn not be do a lot . a few disney movie like song of the south and so dear to my heart and pete dragon have tamper with the idea and but it be still pretty much in it infancy . gulliver travel be not an especially well animate film and but the scene show interaction between harris and his cartoon co star be at least competently do . occasionally the film try to be true to it satirical origin ( there one scene where we learn that lilliput have go to war with it neighbour because of egg . and the point seem to be that war can begin over the most ridiculous of thing ) . but at it heart and this be very much a kid film and the satirical overtone be barely dwell upon . everyone involve have do good thing during their career gulliver travel might fill an otherwise empty afternoon and but apart from that it be a forgettable and underwhelming experience .