The Valley of Gwangi (1969)
Director - James O’Connolly
Plot: In a small Mexican town around the turn of the century horse trader Tuck Kirby meets up with his old flame, T.J. Breckinridge, owner of a financially troubled circus. When he meets palaentologist Professor Horace Bromley, Tuck conceives a plan to aid T.J.’s circus by displaying Bromley’s eohippus, a miniature prehistoric ancestor of the horse. The eohippus then leads them to the secret location of the Forbidden Valley that the locals speak of which they find teeming with prehistoric life. There Tuck conceives an ambitious plan to lasso a tyrannosaurus rex and bring it back for display.
Opinion is divided over The Valley of Gwangi. It was one of the special effects vehicles made by legendary stop-motion animator Ray Harryhausen, creator of classics like The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958), Jason and the Argonauts (1963) and The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973). Many dismiss it as routine Harryhausen, although just as many claim it as an unrecognized masterpiece. Certainly it was not a major success at the time of its release. The story is fairly much just King Kong (1933) relocated in the American West.
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