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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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