The defence The Sentimental Softie
“Sincerity is not manipulation.”
The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.
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The 3 Worlds of Gulliver
Music · Adventure · Fantasy · 1960
Doctor Gulliver is poor, so nothing - not even his charming fiancée Elisabeth - keeps him in the town he lives. He signs on to a ship to India, but in a storm he's washed off the ship and ends up on an island, which is inhibitated by very tiny people. After he managed to convince them he's harmless and is accepted as one of their citizens, their king wants to use him in war against a people of giants. Compared to them, even Gulliver is a gnome.
Movie details
The 3 Worlds of Gulliver
“In a World as different as Night and Day !”
1960 Music · Adventure · Fantasy 1h 40m
Critical arithmetic
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TMDB
6.6 / 10
Community rating
Doctor Gulliver is poor, so nothing - not even his charming fiancée Elisabeth - keeps him in the town he lives. He signs on to a ship to India, but in a storm he's washed off the ship and ends up on an island, which is inhibitated by very tiny people. After he managed to convince them he's harmless and is accepted as one of their citizens, their king wants to use him in war against a people of giants. Compared to them, even Gulliver is a gnome.
CriticWise case file
What this film says about your taste.
Not a recommendation score. A measure of how closely the film’s taste signals resemble yours.
The archetype split
Who fights over The 3 Worlds of Gulliver?
For the defence
The Sentimental Softie
“You came to feel something, and you will.”
Read their case For the prosecution
The Cool Ironist
“Feeling things is a little embarrassing.”
Read their objectionThe split comes from the same five-axis model used by the test, not audience ratings or review sentiment.
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Names above the title
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Cast & crew
Directed by
Jack Sher
Written by
Arthur A. Ross · Jack Sher
Kerwin Mathews
Dr. Lemuel Gulliver
June Thorburn
Elizabeth
Jo Morrow
Gwendolyn
Lee Patterson
Reldresal
Grégoire Aslan
King Brob
Basil Sydney
Emperor of Lilliput
Charles Lloyd Pack
Makovan
Court is in session
Put The 3 Worlds of Gulliver on trial.
Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.
The prosecution The Cool Ironist
“The strings are showing.”
Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.