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,
The 3 Worlds of Gulliver burlesque." Ray Harryhausen did the squirrel and crocodile sequences in the film. The oldest Harryhausen model still existing that was made for the film is the squirrel from "Gulliver", obtained from a taxidermist by Harryhausen. The original armatured model of the crocodile used in the film was mysteriously lost. The 3 Worlds of Gulliver The 3 Worlds of Gulliver is a 1960 Eastmancolor Columbia Pictures fantasy film loosely based upon the 18th century Irish novel "Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift. The film stars Kerwin Mathews as the title character, June Thorburn as his fiancée Elizabeth, and child actress Sherry Alberoni