Prince Koura

Prince Koura is the main antagonist of the 1973 film The Golden Voyage of Sinbad. He was portrayed by Doctor Who alumnous Tom Baker.

Koura was a powerful sorceror in service of teh SUltan, who's great spells came at the price of making Koura physically older. He eventually who grew jealous of the sultan and discretely burned down the royal palace to kill them. However, The Grand Vizier survived (albeit horribly mutilated by the fire) leaving Koura with little more power than he had before.

But Koura was undeterred by his initial failure, and attempted to gain the map to the fountain of destiny, which promised any who drink from it to gain "youth, a shield of Darkness, and a Crown of untold riches". WHile Koura gaines a third of the map, and the vizier another third, Koura sent out humunculi in an attempt to locate the other piece of the map. He eventually found it as an amulet worn by the renouned hero Sinbad. While Koura took several actions to gain the amulet, invading SInabd's dreams, sending a Humunculus out to steal it, and even attempting to trade his life for it when Sinbad washes up on the hore: SInbad keeps his  thrid of the map and joins forces with the Grand Vizier.

Koura then hires his own crew in order to find the Fountain before Sinbad, using hbis magic several times to hinder Sinbad's journey. He controlled a statue of Kali, the figurehead at the front of SIbad's boat, and a Giant centaur to fight SInbad. Eventually, His Party and SInbad's party met at the fountain of Destiny at approximately the same time, and while Koura did get Youth and invisibility, SInbad managed to kill him before he found the cornw of untold riches