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One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing (1975)

One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing poster
Directed by
Robert Stevenson
Genre
comedy film, neo-noir
Country
United Kingdom, United States
Runtime
1h 34m
Rated
G
Rating
5.8 of 10 from 52 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

In the early 1920s, someone steals a dinosaur skeleton from a London museum. A group of people try to figure out who took it and how to get it back.

lightheartedwhimsicalplayfulnostalgiccapergentlecomedicfast-paced

What happens

One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing is a 1975 comedy film set in the early 1920s, about the theft of a dinosaur skeleton from the Natural History Museum. The film was produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by Buena Vista Distribution Company. The title is a parody of the film title One of Our Aircraft Is Missing, in which both Peter Ustinov and Hugh Burden also appeared. The film was based on the 1970 novel The Great Dinosaur Robbery by David Forrest (pseudonym of David Eliades and Robert Forrest Webb). It was the last work of producer and screenwriter Bill Walsh before his death on January 27, 1975, almost six months before the film's release. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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