Valley of the Dragons (1961)

User Rating:

4.0/10   

Director:

Edward Bernds

Writers:

Edward Bernds (writer)
Jules Verne (novel)

Release Date:

November 1961 (USA)

Genre:

Sci-Fi

Tagline:

They go a million years back in time ... and land a million miles out in space!

Plot:

Algeria 1881. Two men, Michael Denning and Hector Servadac are having a duel with one another when a comet passes the earth at low altitude...

Plot Keywords:

Comet | Duel | Prehistoric | Dinosaur | Spider

Cast

Cesare Danova	...	Hector Servadac
Sean McClory	...	Michael Denning
Joan Staley	...	Deena
Danielle De Metz	...	Nateeta
Gregg Martell	...	Od-Loo
Gil Perkins	...	Tarn / Doctor
I. Stanford Jolley	...	Patoo
Mike Lane	...	Anoka
Roger Til	...	Vidal
Mark Dempsey	...	Andrews
Jerry Sunshine	...	LeClerc
Dolly Grey	...	Mara

Also Known As:

Prehistoric Valley (UK)

Runtime:

79 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Trivia:

Some US ad-mats promoted the movie as having been filmed in "Monstascope", suggesting some kind of wide-screen process, but this was entirely misleading. In fact, the film was photographed with spherical lenses and projected at 1.85:1 - wider than regular Academy aperture (1.37:1), but not quite CinemaScope!

Movie Connections:

Features Sora no daikaijû Radon (1956)

At Least the Actors Spoke English

This was one of the very first dinosaur movies I ever watched. When I was a kid I loved the a lot of the scenes, especially the ones from the volcanic eruption. Little did I know at the time that most of the footage was "borrowed" from the original "jurassic classic" One Million B.C. (1940). Also, I didn't find out until several years later that this film was based on a work by the master of science fiction, Jules Verne. This is an okay film for lovers of B movies. Too bad that they don't really show it on television anymore.