Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Valley of the Dragons (1961)

A Jules Verne adaptation which leaves no stock footage left unused.

Hector (Cesare Denova) and Michael (Sean McClory) are about to fight a duel when a comet transports them to the Moon! There they find a prehistoric land of large lizards with bits of plastic stuck to them and unconvincing cave men... and of course cave women in fur bikinis. 

So, this isn't a very high budget film. It is padded out massively with stock footage from other films. The dinosaur scenes are not very convincing and rather cruel, getting real crocodiles to kill lizards on camera! It is all fairly cheesy and, of course, complete nonsense.