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Bookmark this pageThe Valley of Gwangi (1968)
Director: James O'Connolly
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From Time Out Film Guide
A Charles Schneer/Ray Harryhausen fantasy for Dynamation special effects fans only: a reworking of the King Kong structure that has turn-of-the-century Wild West show boss Franciscus venturing into Mexico's Forbidden Valley in search of prehistoric specimens. A formula writing credit for William Bast, one of the very few screenwriters to have been characterised on screen: by Michael Brandon in the telemovie James Dean, which tracked the friendship between the actor and Bast from UCLA to Dean's death.Author: PT
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- Godfrey Hamilton said...
- Posted on Feb 18 2010 22:44 Time Out's "50 Greatest Monster Movies" puts this at no.44 and declares "It was based on an unrealised project of King Kong creator Willis O'Brien". But O'Brien did sort-of realise it, with the 1956 oddity 'The Beast of Hollow Mountain', starring Guy (woof) Madison and a very cursorily animated - by O'Brien, a long way from his great achievement in 'King Kong' - T Rex.
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- Richard Freeman said...
- Posted on Feb 18 2010 18:09 I sopke to Ray Harryhausen about this film and he told me Gwangi (lizard in Spanish) is actually a Tyrannosaurs / Allosaurus hybrid.
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Cast & crew
Director: James O'Connolly
Producer: Charles H Schneer
Cast: James Franciscus, Gila Golan, Richard Carlson, Laurence Naismith, Freda Jackson, Gustavo Rojo full cast
Genre(s): Fantasy
Duration: 95 mins
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