Valley of the Dragons (1961)

Directed by

Edward Bernds

Genre

science fiction film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 22m

Rated

B

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 16 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two men are transported to a prehistoric valley after a comet passes by Earth. They must survive encounters with dinosaurs and cavemen while trying to find a way home.

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What happens

Valley of the Dragons (released in UK as Prehistoric Valley) is a black and white 1961 American science fiction film loosely based on Jules Verne's 1877 novel Off on a Comet (aka Hector Servadac) and heavily dependent on stock footage from the movies One Million B.C., King Dinosaur, Cat-Women of the Moon and Rodan. Director Edward Bernds says the film was originally built around stock footage from One Million B.C. The film was released on October 25, 1961 by Columbia Pictures on a double feature with William Castle's Mr. Sardonicus (1961). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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