Comments on: Happy Birthday to Ray Harryhausen!

By: zena0001

zena0001 — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 22:12:36 +0000

I love your movies Harry and have managed to collect most of them which have been released and hope all will be soon.
I now share them with my children granchildren and friends!
Thank you so much for being a part of my childhood and making it special!

By: mrsardonicus

mrsardonicus — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:19:30 +0000

I was about 7 or 8 yrs. old when I begged my grandfather to take me to see “The 7th Voyage of Sinbad” at our local theatre in Ambridge, Pa on its initial release back in 1958. I’ll never forget the impact it had on me & Visions of the Cyclops& skeleton duel still facinate me to this day.. The eternal triumpth of good V.S. evil..God Bless You Ray…& thanks for the memories!!!!!

By: dan swartz

dan swartz — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:23:41 +0000

thanks for all the wonderful years of fantasy brought to my life and to the lives of all blessed to have experienced Ray Harrehausen Happy Birthday and for all the generations who will thrill to your work, THANK YOU in advance

By: Frank Lehn

Frank Lehn — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:18:26 +0000

I don’t have any “favorite” Harryhausen moments – I love ‘em all. The influence his stuff had on me as a little kid has remained there my whole life. I don’t own any DVD’s of his films, but by golly I will put my life on “hold” to watch them on the tube. Thanks, Ray, and Happy Birthday!

By: Suzi Doll

Suzi Doll — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:15:33 +0000

MYSTERIOUS ISLAND is still my favorite, partly because I had such a crush on star Michael Callen. I just watched it a couple of months ago. And, I appreciate Ray Harryhausen’s talents even more because recently I watched KING KONG VS. GODZILLA, and the creatures were so ridiculously bad that they were laugh-out-loud funny — not clever or imaginative like R.H. This is a nice “birthday card” to R.H.

By: moirafinnie

moirafinnie — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:39:31 +0000

Isn't it great that Ray Harryhausen has lived long enough to see his work deeply appreciated by audiences of all ages? Keep your hi-tech CGI effects--I'll take the handcrafted detail and expression he managed to give his awesome creatures. I like to believe that the quizzical and hurt expressions on the face of Mr. Joe Young of Africa were created by him early in his career, when he had a chance to work with his hero, Willis O'Brien, (of King Kong fame). I love those scenes (such as that naughty crotch shot of Talos) that make us giggle. Though I probably can't pick an all time favorite, the skeleton swordfight in Jason and the Argonauts comes close to being emblematic of the jaunty and bewitching effects his loving care could create in a movie. One of my treasured books is "Ray Harryhausen: An Animated Life", which details his fanatical devotion to this lost art and is well worth owning. Thanks so much for writing about this artist and Happy 88th, Mr. H.!

By: saraeg

saraeg — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 06:10:17 +0000

thank you medusamorlock for writing such a wonderful piece on ray harryhausen. i must be the same age as you because of course i watched million dollar movie and saw all the mentioned movies many times and still watch them. have a wonderful summer!