Disappointing
Amateurish, low budget low production values. Could have been so much more, with little effort.
sharePerhaps it because I saw it in the theaters when I was around 11 years old but I still count it as a 'keeper' and hope to get it downloaded someday.
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Update: And I did!
I too saw it in a theatre (probably when I was about your age) thought it was the greatest movie ever made (until I Destination Moon) Of course it was ridiculous BUT we had never seen anything like this before (maybe King Kong) and we were pretty simple and easily entertained You've always have to judge a movie in the context of when it was created - for the time this was great entertainment
Hey... in those days such movies were better than sliced bread (unless it's Wonder Bread..Lol).
Today the movie is unintentionally funny and...but it's entertaining.
They were humming because they didn't know the words and the dinosaur was probably some pre-teenager dressed up.
We've gotten too smart for our own good now and this is certainly silly, but I like it.
If this movie was filmed today there would be blood & guts, interracial characters and all with a load of tattoos and nose on.
Yes it also was a left leaning film
It was stupid, silly, historically inaccurate, badly directed, and the acting was not the greatest. I loved it. It was fun to watch. Victor Mature never took himself too seriously anyway. I wonder if he had anything going with Carole Landis, however brief it would have been. He once said, "I'm no actor and I've got 64 pictures to prove it." But IMDb only gives him 56 credits. Did he have some uncredited parts or maybe bits as an extra?
shareThat's a clever remark by Victor, but I must disagree regarding two of his films at least! In fact I've only SEEN two, so far as I know -- and I say he was good in "The Egyptian" and beyond good in "The Robe". In the latter he gives a fine, understated performance, one of the best in the film.
I've seen many of his pictures from the 1940s to his last in "After the Fox," in which he satirized himself. He was a good actor, but no one was going to ask him to play "Hamlet" and he knew it. He was the Sylvester Stallone of his day; good but limited in range. He didn't care. He knew his limitations. I think he was just being a wiseguy to tell off the country club that wouldn't accept his application even though he had retired from acting.
shareI have a place in my heart for the 1966 version with Raquel Welch but I actually kinda like this one too.
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