It was one of the last old fashioned, Jules Verne type of adventures coming in an era where gritty dramas (the GODFATHER movies), grotesque horrors (THE EXORCIST, THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE), big budget disaster flicks (THE TOWERING INFERNO) and popular, edgy anti-heroes (Dirty Harry), were now in the forefront. Ironically, the year this was released (1974), another one of its ilk, THE GOLDEN VOYAGE OF SINBAD also came to the screens and became quite successful, so there was still a little room for movie audiences, for these wild fantasy adventures (STAR WARS released in 1977, would sort of bring back that sense of old fashion story telling, but set in space).
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