Gulliver's Travels (1977 film) 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 of the film, having escaped by boat from Lilliput, Gulliver encounters one of the giant inhabitants of Brobdingnag,
Land of the Giants Distributors also published two United Kingdom-only novels the same year, "Slingshot for a David" and "The Mean City"; both were credited to James Bradwell, a pseudonym for Arthur William Charles Kent. A hardback novel for children, "Flight of Fear" by Carl Henry Rathjen (1969), was published in the United States by Whitman. Also in 1968, Gold Key Comics published a comic book version of "Land of the Giants", which ran to five issues. In 2010, all five issues were reprinted together as a hardcover book by Hermes Press. In 1968, Aurora Plastics Company produced two plastic model kits based on