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The Land Unknown * (1957, Jock Mahoney, Shirley Patterson, William Reynolds, Henry Brandon) – Classic Movie Review 11,566

The spectacularly creaky 1957 sci-fi adventure film The Land Unknown is infamous for its men in dinosaur suits, pathetic puppets and lizards standing in for dinosaurs. Director Virgil W Vogel’s 1957 black and white sci-fi […]

Sep, 11

The Beast of Hollow Mountain ** (1956, Guy Madison, Patricia Medina, Carlos Rivas) – Classic Movie Review 8347

Directors Edward Nassour and Ismael Rodriguez’s 1956 Mexican Sci-Fi horror Western movie The Beast of Hollow Mountain stars Guy Madison as Jimmy Ryan, an American cowboy rancher living in Mexico who suspects a Plasticine monster […]

Apr, 08

The Land that Time Forgot *** (1974, Doug McClure, John McEnery, Susan Penhaligon, Keith Barron) – Classic Movie Review 6222

Director Kevin Connor’s decent 1974 British World War One fantasy adventure yarn The Land that Time Forgot has the traditional obligatory minor American film star Doug McClure at the helm as the hero Bowen Tyler. […]

Nov, 10

One Million Years BC **** (1966, Raquel Welch, John Richardson, Percy Herbert, Robert Brown, Martine Beswick) – Classic Movie Review 2436

Director Don Chaffey’s ambitious and spectacular 1966 prehistoric fantasy adventure One Million Years BC stars the remarkable Raquel Welch, famously looking sexy in perhaps the most iconic fur bikini of all time as Loana the […]

Apr, 29

When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth *** (1970, Victoria Vetri, Robin Hawdon, Patrick Allen) – Classic Movie Review 2435

Writer-director Val Guest’s daft but amusing 1970 Hammer Films’ follow-up to One Million Years BC (1966) casts lovely, exotic-looking former Playboy 1968 Playmate of the Year Victoria Vetri as the scantily clad leading cave-lady Sanna. […]

Apr, 29

The Valley of Gwangi **** (1969, James Franciscus, Gila Golan, Richard Carlson, Laurence Naismith) – Classic Movie Review 2434

Director James O’Connolly’s 1969 monster movie The Valley of Gwangi is a big treat for all fans of dinosaur movies. It features a huge T-Rex called Gwangi, so named from a Native American word meaning lizard. […]

Apr, 28

Jurassic Park ***** (1993, Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough) – Classic Movie Review 178

Steven Spielberg gathers up the plot, characters, situations and themes of the famous, thoughtful novel by Michael Crichton and turns them into a great, old-style horror adventure with great new-style special effects. Broadening the appeal of the […]

Aug, 20

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