Gwangi's apparent color changes several times over the course of the movie because there was so much animation to do that Harryhausen did not have enough time to do proper color testing.
When Gwangi is chasing the cowboys out of the valley through the rock pass, one person falls off his horse twice.
When Lope's shirt is torn, the rip changes sides several times.
Early on, young Lope tells Tuck Kirby that the arena is two miles outside of the town.
This is confirmed by Tuck encountering Professor Bromley's paleontological digs in open desert during his return from his first visit to it.
However, at the film's climax the arena is clearly within the town.
The pterodactyl picks Lope up by his shoulders but when T.
is cleaning his wounds there are several claw marks down his right side and none on his shoulders.
If you have ever dreamed of seeing the original "King Kong" done in color but accomplished with traditional special effects, "The Valley of Gwangi" is probably the closest you'll get to that. It's not a classic like "King Kong" is.
This has interesting creatures in the series of these type of creature movies. There is some moments of scary parts of the creatures battling each other, they are all pretty and great creatures who should in real coexist but because human meddling this is what happens, idiocy, allowing prehistoric creatures and current creatures, resulting in killings with each other.
James Franciscus stars as an ambitious cowboy who discovers a valley containing a T-Rex(called Gwangi) that he(along with others) captures and sells to a circus, where it becomes a star attraction. Of course, it doesn't appreciate its captivity, eventually escaping and causing havoc before it meets its fiery fate...
Middling reworking of King Kong, based off of an idea from that film's special effects genius, Willis O'Brien. It's nothing great outside of the Ray Harryhausen special effects, which are good.
I remember seeing this dinosaur movie when I was a kid - as a dino fan, anything dinosaur is movies was intriguing for me.A dinosaur was captured by cowboy James Franciscus and brought to the Mexican circus.
The plot, to me, isn't any great shakes. It is the basics of a Wild West show needing an act to jazz things up, believing they (Gila Golan, Richard Carlson, James Franciscus, and Gustavo Rojo) may have found the mother lode thanks to the discovery of a dinosaur (later named Gwangi for his introduction to Mexican audiences loading into a coliseum in their village) in a mountainous desert (called the "Forbidden Valley), considered a dangerous curse not to be bothered by "queen of Mexican gypsies", Tia (Freda Jackson).
1969's "The Valley of Gwangi" was an original idea by stop motion animator Willis O'Brien that finally came to fruition under his former apprentice Ray Harryhausen, envisioned as "Valley of the Mists" with cowboys battling dinosaurs in the Grand Canyon, which never got off the ground at RKO in 1942, later done by the Nassour Brothers in 1956 as "The Beast of Hollow Mountain" Guy Madison luring his predatory beast into a bog. Harryhausen wanted to take a crack at the property himself for his final dinosaur entry before his 1981 retirement (just three more fantasy films ahead, "The Golden Voyage of Sinbad," "Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger," and "Clash of the Titans"), and began work after principal photography in Almeria, Spain was finished in Oct.
Yes, maybe the special effects are a bit off. Yes, maybe the dinosaurs have unnatural colours.
Boy, some of the plot holes are noticeable. But do we care if a film is enjoyable in such a goofy way?
