"King Dinosaur" is a 1955 science fiction B movie in black and white. A planet has just appeared near the Earth and many are excited to go up and have a look! Four professionals, two men and two women, are selected for the mission. A lot of experiments of rockets finally succeed with the journey to the strange world. It's name is Nova and the four heroes discover many interesting surprises. They even find out it's very similar to Earth!
Directed and written by Bert I Gordon with co writers Al Zimbalist and Tom Gries. The stars include William Bryant, Wanda Curtis, Douglas Henderson and Patti Gallagher. The film's production company is named Zimgor Productions.
This was filmed at Bronson Canyon in Los Angeles. The scenery is wild and gorgeous with amazing views. Some of the scenes are real stock images and also used in other films, but the rest is hard to watch for animal lovers. In the film the team of scientists abandon their space rocket for some camping in the monster woods before heading off to a dangerous island. Thunderous roars and an active volcano doesn't put them off. The film is quite cheesy fun to watch for a rainy day. Among the cast is an iguana who was given the biggest starring role playing Tyrannosaurus rex!
Do I have complaints about the film? Yes.
My rating for this awful masterpiece is 2/10. Read spoiler below maybe.
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SPOILER : There is a cute alien fluffball called Joe played by a kinkajou actor.
