The Golden Voyage of Sinbad

A fine, clear morning, and all is well!

Higher!

Ahoy there! Look up!

Fetch me a bow.

Look.

Captain?

Captain Sinbad?

Up there in the sky.

It's holding something.

Abdul.

Shines like gold.

Too strange to be an albatross.

A jackdaw? They steal bright things.

No, no. Too big for a jackdaw.

Omar!

You fool! You have brought bad luck on us all!

Captain!

Cast it over the side. It is evil.

I feel it.

Captain!

For the love of Allah, cast it overboard.

I think I'll keep it.

Sinbad!

Sinbad!

Sinbad!

Sinbad!

- Sinbad! -

I can't hold her, Captain. She's running before the wind!

Look! We're being driven onto the rocks!

Slice that sail! Let it drift if you have to!

Abdul!

Allah, give me strength!

Sinbad!

Sinbad!

Marabia.

It must be Marabia.

We are way off course.

No. The dream I had, Rachid- This is all part of it somehow.

We've been brought here by some mysterious force.

Is it not written that a wise man will try to realize his dream, to follow it?

Some say it is through dreams that Allah speaks to mortal man.

To forsake the dream-

Is to forsake him!

Captain, he who walks on fire will burn his feet.

Captain?

I'm going ashore.

Aye, there's a good anchorage beyond.

That's where we'll meet.

Do as he says! We make for the anchorage!

You are Captain Sinbad?

I am.

You are also a thief. And a thief is a king until he is caught.

The bauble that hangs at your throat, Captain, is mine.

Hand it to me, or you will have no throat.

You'll be dead if you don't.

You stole it from my courier.

Very well.

- Hi-yah! -

Koura! The black prince! Prince Koura!

We have waited for you a long time.

He escaped, Achmed. He rode into the city and escaped me.

The sultan's guards were there to help him.

But you are all right.

I brought the city gates down upon their foolish faces.

Master, your hand!

We must hurry.

He who searches for pearls should not sleep.

Sinbad is even now with the vizier.

I must hear what passes between them.

Walls have mice,

and mice have ears.

- - I have my spy.

He has failed me once, but never twice.

You tell a strange tale, Captain.

Nevertheless, one fact makes me believe your story.

The amulet around your neck-

it makes us allies against the same enemy who covets it as much as I.

Fate, destiny have brought us together.

I would like to think so.

Why?

Our country is being choked alive by a great evil visited on us by Prince Koura.

Koura?

The one who attacked me?

A man versed in every black art...

and dedicated to bringing this domain under his power.

Please.

I have an equally strange tale to tell.

When our sultan died without a son,

he made me heir to two things-

the two being part of one secret.

What are these two things you speak of?

You shall see.

Here is the first.

These pictures tell the story of a legend as yet unrealized.

Little remains.

As our sultan breathed his last breath, and I hastened here to read the secrets,

a great ball of fire engulfed this room-

a fire which took away my face...

and left these few scorched patches that now you see.

A ball of fire?

It was Koura's work.

You spoke of two things bequeathed thee.

Here is the second,

something the fire could not destroy-

A token, a sign, a riddle.

It is said the riddle will begin to be unraveled...

when this and the one about your neck...

are placed before a great eminence who dwells in a temple of many faces.

And yet still incomplete.

A perfect match.

You see? I was right, Captain.

Only destiny could have brought you here.

Yeah, but it's still a riddle.

These, this-

The key to a great and mighty secret?

What secret? What is to be revealed?

Power.

Absolute power.

Power to rid this land forever of Koura's black and ugly ambitions.

If this power were to fall into Koura's hands-

That thought constantly torments me.

If Koura were to obtain absolute power,

freedom and happiness would be lost.

Absolute power.

I pray to Allah that he does not hear me.

We will see to it, you and I,

that we solve this mystery before Prince Koura.

If Allah be willing.

Part of it must be here.

I see a ship.

A long voyage.

An island.

And these foreboding symbols can only mean danger of death.

Or great riches perhaps.

A lost treasure.

Or it could mean nothing at all.

The more I study it, the greater the puzzle becomes.

What of these?

There is a third part still to be found.

It must be found, or our land will be plagued forever.

But how to get the third?

Vizier.

Don't you see it?

The meridian? There are shoals at the island?

It's a chart, Vizier!

A nautical chart.

And you are a sea captain.

Allah be praised!

You. You can go home.

Is this a ship or a monastery?

- We sail with the tide! - She only removed two veils.

If the winds are with us, we should reach this area before the rise of Venus.

Then we follow Orion into waters I've never sailed before.

Why do you stare at me?

You have the belief of destiny, for that is what has brought us together.

Possibly.

With Allah's help, we will surely triumph.

There is an old proverb I choose to believe.

“Trust in Allah...

but tie up your camel.”

It is Koura's spy, his watchdog.

Quick! Quick!

There!

Already it may have betrayed us.

In name of the Almighty, what was it?

Koura's creation- a living homunculus-

an extension of his eyes and ears.

And with it, he now knows as much as we.

It's a race then. A duel!

We seek an island,

an ultimate destination.

He will also seek it.

Find me a ship and a captain who can be trusted.

We must sail with the next tide.

All right, all right!

Splendid! Excellent! You're even better than they say.

Sinbad, isn't it? Captain of the ship that lies offshore?

- Aye. - Ahh!

I am Hakim,

owner of this ornate establishment.

I wish to employ you.

Sorry. I sail with the tide.

It is only a small service-

No longer than it takes to drink a coffee.

- I'm sorry. - No, just hear me.

It will only take a moment.

It's only a small service.

This is my son, Haroun- a fool.

200 gold coins if you take him with you.

Take him with me?

I couldn't even use him for ballast!

300 gold coins.

My friend, you cannot pick up two melons with one hand,

and I cannot work miracles.

Hurry.

Come sit down.