On this day in movie history - Jason and the Argonauts (1963 movie & poem):

Jason and the Argonauts

directed by Don Chaffey,

written by Jan Read, Beverley Cross,

based on the poem The Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes / Apollonius Rhodius,

released in the United States on June 13, 1963.

Music by Bernard Herrmann.

Cast: Todd Armstrong, Nancy Kovack, Gary Raymond, Laurence Naismith, Niall MacGinnis, Michael Gwynn, Douglas Wilmer, Jack Gwillim, Honor Blackman, John Cairney, Patrick Troughton, Andrew Faulds, Nigel Green, Ennio Antonelli, Harold Bradley, John Crawford, Aldo Cristiani, Bill Gudgeon, Eva Haddon, Ferdinando Poggi, Doug Robinson, Davina Taylor, Tim Turner.

Recommended reading:

Jason and the Argonauts

a.k.a. Jason and the Golden Fleece: (The Argonautica)

By Apollonius of Rhodes / Apollonius Rhodius.

Translated by E. V. Rieu.

Filmed as Jason and the Argonauts (1963), directed by Don Chaffey.

Published by Penguin Books.

This edition published 1996.

ISBN-10: 014600163X

ISBN-13: 978-0146001635

Description:

This underrated epic poem is a description of the voyage of Greek hero Jason and the Argonauts to Colchis, modern day Georgia, in search of the Golden Fleece. Written in the third century BCE, The Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes is the only surviving Hellenistic epic.