The Valley of Gwangi (1969)

Directed by

Jim O'Connolly

Genre

fantasy film, Western film, horror film, science fiction film, monster film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 35m

Rated

G

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 166 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Cowboys in the Old West discover a hidden valley where dinosaurs still live. They try to capture a living dinosaur and bring it back to civilization.

b-moviecampydatedadventurouswhimsicalaction-packednostalgiclow-budget

What happens

The Valley of Gwangi is a 1969 American fantasy Western film produced by Charles H. Schneer and Ray Harryhausen, directed by Jim O'Connolly, written by William Bast, and starring James Franciscus, Richard Carlson, and Gila Golan. Creature stop-motion effects were by Harryhausen, the last dinosaur-themed film that he animated. He had inherited the film project from his mentor Willis O'Brien, responsible for the effects in the original King Kong (1933). O'Brien had planned to make The Valley of Gwangi decades earlier but died in 1962 before it could be realized. Producer Charles H. Schneer called it "probably the least of the movies Ray and I made together." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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