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Jason and the Argonauts

Don Chaffey, director · 1963

Jason's Golden Fleece quest became a landmark of fantasy cinema through Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion creatures.

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Title
Jason and the Argonauts
Creator
Don Chaffey, director
Date
1963
Holding source
British Film Institute
Medium
Film
Mythic links
Jason, Hera, Lernaean Hydra, Heracles
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A cultural afterlife of the myth

Jason's Golden Fleece quest became a landmark of fantasy cinema through Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion creatures. MythBranch includes this work as evidence of later reception: it shows how a mythic figure or episode was selected, reshaped and transmitted for a new audience.

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