King Dinosaur is a 1955 science fiction film starring William Bryant and Wanda Curtis with narrated by Marvin Miller. The film was featured on season 2 of Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Plot[]
Four astronauts in 1960 travel to a planet called Nova that has just entered Earth's solar system. The crew begins studying the planet to see if it's suitanle for a possible Earth colony. After first discovering normal Earth animals such as a kinkajou and an alligator, they soon encounter and battle giant insects, an enormous snake, prehistoric mammals, dinosaurs, and - on an Island - the titular character, King Dinosaur, a giant lguana. Eventually, the scientists blow up the island with an atomic bomb, killing all of its inhabitants, rendering the only dinosaur inhabitants of Nova extinct.
Cast[]
- William Bryant - Dr. Ralph Martin
- Wanda Curtis - Dr. Patricia Bennett
- Douglas Henderson - Dr. Richard Gordon
- Patti Gallagher - Nora Pierce
- Marvin Miller - Narrator
Production[]
The film was directed over a seven-day period by Bert I. Gordon and was Gordon's debut. The camera and other pieces of equipment were borrowed and the cast worked for deferred salaries.
The scene of th attacking mammoth was stock footage recycled from the film One Million BC.
There were only four actors in this film. The rest of the band and soldiers were just military stock footage, as was the footage of the atomic bomb explosions.
Mystery Science Theater 3000[]
The film was featured in a second season episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 IN December 1990.
References[]
- ^ a b Mark McGee, Faster and Furiouser: The Revised and Fattened Fable of American Internal Pictures, McFarland. 1996 p105
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