Gwangi's revenge

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Movie
German title Gwangi's revenge
Original title The Valley of Gwangi
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1969
length 95 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director James O'Connolly
script William E. Bast
Julian More
production Charles H. Schneer
Warner Bros.
music Jerome Moross
camera Erwin Hillier
cut Henry Richardson
occupation

The Valley of Gwangi (original title: The Valley of Gwangi ) is an American Western - fantasy film by James O'Connolly from the year 1969. The German premiere took place on 25 July 1969th

action

Around the turn of the century, the attractive TJ Breakenridge put on a rodeo show, but it was not very successful. Her former fiancé, Tuck Kirby, a former stuntman who worked on Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, is trying to buy out the show. TJ's hope for her show rests on a tiny horse designed to attract viewers. Tuck speaks to the British paleontologist Horace Bromley, who shows him fossil horse tracks in the nearby Mexican desert. Tuck discovers similarities with the hooves of TJ's miniature horse. Tuck and Bromley examine the horse, whereupon Bromley declares the small animal to be Eohippus . The miniature horse comes from an area called "the forbidden valley". A gypsy warns them that there is a curse on the valley. Bromley hires a couple of thieves to steal the horse. He wants to release it to find the valley.

Tuck, unaware of the planned theft, misses the horse and goes in pursuit of Bromley. When TJ discovers the theft, she believes Tuck stole the horse. To get the horse back, she and her men chase Tuck, only to finally meet him in the valley. A pteranodon flies up and grabs Lope, Bromley's Mexican helper. After the pterosaur has been killed and the boy has been freed, they pursue a small ornithomimus in order to capture it. At a stream the group comes across Gwangi, an allosaurus , who chases them to their camp. The rifles carried are only ammunitioned with blank cartridges. The following fight with Gwangi is disturbed by a styracosaurus , who gives the group a break.

After Gwangi kills Carlos, he pursues the rest of the group, but is knocked unconscious by a scree avalanche. The dinosaur is tied up and brought into town to serve as a show attraction. But one of the gypsies begins to open Gwangi's cage the night before the show. Gwangi breaks open the cage completely, eats the gypsy, kills Bromley and a circus elephant. Tuck, TJ and Lope lure Gwangi into a church and fight him there. The church catches fire. Tuck, TJ and Lope escape the burning building and are able to lock the door. The dinosaur dies in the flames. The townspeople make Tuck a hero.

Reviews

The lexicon of international films saw a "serial horror film that looks more silly than scary". Howard Thompson recommended in the New York Times that the film be viewed from back to front, because after a strict first half, "the film gets momentum in the rugged wasteland".

background

  • The film was based on an idea by Willis O'Brien (his draft was entitled Valley of the Mist ), who had tried unsuccessfully to make a film for years.
  • Gwangi is the Indian term for lizard and led to misunderstandings among the audience at the time.
  • In Germany the film was also released with the additional title Das Tal der Dinosaurier and was renamed The Revenge of the Dinosaurs when the DVD was released .
  • After the end of cooperation with Columbia , was Charles H. Schneer an agreement with the Bros. Warner achieve. After filming in Spain, Ray Harryhausen added the stop-motion effects over several months of detailed work . It was his second dinosaur film after A Million Years Before Our Time and at the same time a homage to his great idol O'Brien. The special effects were advertised with Dynamation.

See also

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gwangi's Revenge. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ^ Review of September 4, 1969