Gulliver's Travels (1977 film) but there is nothing more about his adventures there or in the other lands mentioned in the novel. Gulliver's Travels (1977 film) Gulliver's Travels is a 1977 film based on the novel of the same name by Jonathan Swift. It mixed live action and animation, and starred Richard Harris in the title role. The opening sequence in live action shows Gulliver announcing his intention to go to sea as a ship's surgeon, followed by scenes of a shipwreck. The remainder of the film has Harris on Lilliput and Blefuscu, with the tiny inhabitants created by animation. At the very end
Gulliver's Travels and sails out to be rescued by a passing ship, which safely takes him back home. Gulliver soon sets out again. When the sailing ship "Adventure" is blown off course by storms and forced to sail for land in search of fresh water, Gulliver is abandoned by his companions and is left on a peninsula on the western coast of the North American continent. The grass of that land is as tall as a tree. He is then found by a farmer who was about 72 ft (22 m) tall, judging from Gulliver estimating a man's step being . He