Jason and the Argonauts (1963 film)

Jason and the Argonauts is a 1963 film about the legendary Greek hero who leads a team of intrepid adventurers in a perilous quest for the legendary Golden Fleece.

Directed by Don Chaffey. Written by Beverley Cross and Jan Read, based on The Argonautica Apollonius Rhodius.

Greatest Odyssey Of The Ages - for the first time on the screen (taglines)

Pelias

(Incognito) Jason, when your father defended his kingdom... no man fought harder than I!

Zeus

The gods are best served by those who need their help the least.

For the moment, let them enjoy a calm sea, a fresh breeze and each other.

If I were to punish every blasphemy, I'd soon lose all loyalty and respect.
The gods are best served by those who need their help the least.
For the moment, let them enjoy a calm sea, a fresh breeze and each other. The girl is pretty and I was always sentimental. But for Jason, there are other adventures. I have not finished with Jason. Let us continue the game another day.

Aeëtes

Rise up, you dead, slain of the hydra, rise from your graves and avenge us! Those who steal the Golden Fleece must die.

Phineas

Lord Zeus, I was a sinner. I have never tried to deny it. But I didn't sin every day! Why then do you punish me every day?

Dialogue

Pelias: Well?

Priest: Zeus, king of the gods of the Greeks, brighten the ashes that I may read the future. I see... a great tree at the end of the world. And in its branches there hang the skull and skin of a ram. They gleam and shine for it is a prize of the gods, a Golden Fleece.

Phineas: But tell me, what gods protect you?

Jason: None now.

Phineas: You won't pass the Clashing Rocks.