King Dinosaur - Un-cut Widescreen (1955) Full Movie | Bert I. Gordon cheesy special effects!

Atomic Age and Stone Age collide when a new planet appears in our solar system, within sight of Earth, prompting a two-man, two-woman rocket flight that finds giant animals and reptiles, some reminiscent of our planet's prehistoric monsters. A key early low budget Bert I. Gordon production with the "prehistoric monsters" played by a magnified iguana and other lizards!
Cast: William Bryant, Wanda Curtis, Douglas Henderson, Patti Gallagher, Marvin Miller (Narrator)
Director: Burt I. Gordon
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[@jimmylee2678]

These are my favorite kind of movies. Forget CGI special effects, the movie turns into a video game. Merry Christmas!

[@Phase52012]

It's amazing what you can do with some old sets, some old costumes, some old V2 footage and lots of stock footage. A story that gets right to the point and is all done in 63 mins. Loved it!

[@Estes705]

Old films like these are gold!

[@Phase52012]

@@Estes705 - And they used to be so hard to find here in Australia before the internet. I was shocked, shocked I tell you, to see "The Giant Claw" on late night TV back in the late 80s. I'd seen clips from it, but never the whole movie. goodness knows who decided to program it. TV stations in Australia have never tried to accomodate the SF lover.

[@mickeyray3793]

They could have paid for the entire space program without taking a dime from taxpayers, if they had just charged fees for every time that V2 footage was used in sci-fi movies. 😊

[@gargantuaism]

In 1974 I was sick at home with no school and I walked into my parents room and put on the big TV and KING DINOSAUR was on! It was the daily movie on channel 11 in Los Angeles. It was even introduced by a host in a yellow sweater sitting in a big chair by a fireplace, all this for KING DINOSAUR!! and the whole movie was only an hour! It was ridiculous, silly and dumb, I loved EVERY minute of it!!

[@Estes705]

I miss those days!

[@yoelfischel6327]

Within 3 minutes I knew I was going to like this movie. First astronomers didn't see the planet until it was close by and second they had to build the rocket so it could withstand the pressure found in outer space.

[@Estes705]

In the opening credits: "Featuring Little Joe - the Honey Bear".... Hell YEAH! You know it's gonna be a great film when animals get top billing in the credits! 💪💪💪💪💪🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@Del-Canada]

They look so real.

[@BeachsideHank]

Tom Gries ... (screenplay) Was later a director of "Will Penny", Charlton Heston's favorite movie role. Tom's son also was cast in the film.

[@Jan6750]

Old movies on YT vs modern releases: Oldies win every time. Better stories and better acting... And that's saying something!😂😂

[@garfieldsmith332]

Bert I. Gordon ranks somewhere between Ed Wood and Roger Corman. The movie posters for Gordon's films were better than the films. These films take us back to the old time Saturday Kids Matinee. Lottsa fun back then.

[@mickeyray3793]

The pressures found in outer space? I think they're getting outer space confused with undersea. Perhaps we need to call Lloyd Bridges. 😮

[@evelynwaugh4053]

What did they think the potato bug was going to do to them? Definitely very cheesy👍👍, top marks. To get the full impact, you have to pretend you're about 9 and in a station wagon with the family and friends on buck night or carload Thursday.

[@robertstewart9658]

Where to start? Lippert Studios where the word quality is not in our vocabulary (but some fun is.) Love the jaunty music during the montages. The V2 was the go to rocket during this time period despite not being interstellar. Explorers who set off without blazing a trail. Snake, scream bang bang. Still watching, though, aren't I?

[@paddyodriscoll8648]

Different planet, with brown bears, coniferous trees, sloths, pythons and more,,,,,where was this new planet,,, Montana? Brazil?

[@georgecoventry8441]

I was thinking maybe Pennsylvania? Idaho? A lot of evergreens, that's for sure. But the sloths do suggest Brazil.

[@paddyodriscoll8648]

@@georgecoventry8441 pythons as well. It’s obviously varied stock footage. People used to make a living going around and taking footage and then selling it to early movie studios to fluff up their films.

[@reginalddavis7578]

New York City

[@paulsmodels]

MST3K did an episode on this movie. They blasted it!

[@mousetreehouse6833]

I was just going to say that this epic is ripe for Riff Trax! 😂

[@peace-yv4qd]

The old V2 Rocket footage. How many movies have used it?

[@garfieldsmith332]

Easier to list how many have NOT used it.😀

[@sallykohorst8803]

Never heard of this film always love dinosaur movies.

[@queenglamazona8789]

I feel so bad for the Lizards that were made to tear each other apart in this Movie. 😢

[@xray86delta]

You're flying to the far reaches of space, and they don't even have a bolo knife? 😂

[@TJ-di2cx]

An alerting filmisode on what lurking dangers may lurk in cosmispace in our present science era!

[@georgecoventry8441]

I can't understand why they didn't help that poor alligator around the 26 minute mark! First it gets attacked by a weird bipedal alien (Ralph), who stabs it multiple times with his knife. Then they do nothing to help it. Shocking. *** A few minutes later: Another unprovoked attack! This time Ralph has assaulted a large insect. Make that a very large insect. He shoots it several times, killing it. What is wrong with these people? *** A few minutes after that: Well, at least they're treating "Joe" kindly. What is Joe? Some kind of marsupial? *** Women had one standard way of dealing with stressful situations back when this movie was made. Scream, scream, scream!!! And tangle their hands in their own hair while screaming. It doesn't seem like it would help much if you stop to think about it. Men were there to shoot at things, make clumsy passes at the gals, and tough it out when the going got tough. *** Okay, so, let's take a little trip to that island. Hmm. Seems kind of barren, but that doesn't stop the unseen orchestra from playing, just like they've been doing all through the movie. That was how classical musicians stayed employed back then. They played behind all the movie footage. Audiences must have expected that, I suppose. *** Uh-oh! A giant iguana. What do we do now? I know, let's shoot at it! Oops. It got mad. Who could have predicted that? Now they're trapped in a cave and the iguana is out for blood! *** Well, what do you know....here comes a baby alligator, pretending to be a huge dinosaur! And....he's gotten into a massive grudge fight with the iguana! "Can't we all just get along?" I guess not. This doesn't look good...but help is on the way! Geez, the baby alligator didn't make out so well, but he's got a tag team partner...some kind of lizard. A skink? A monitor lizard? Well, I'm not sure, but here we go with round 2. Come on, Skink, use the Camel Clutch!!! So, our fearless four have finally gotten away from the giant lizards, and they've decided to "bring civilization" to the new planet....by setting off an atomic bomb on the island! One thing is 100% sure...........these people are Americans! Now that they've made the place "safe for democracy" by blowing it up, everything is gonna be peachy keen. I predict that in ten years time there will be a McDonald's and a Burger King every few miles, and Planet Nova will finally be "civilized". Yessiree! Roll the credits, Jack. Another happy ending. 😄

[@sunnystormy4973]

-spoiler alert !-

[@vger9084]

Earth gets a new neighbor and first thing we do, shoot a V-2 Rocket at it! 🤣🤣🤣

[@teptime]

This was on TV a lot in the 70s, and still lots of fun.

[@user-ji2nv2vd6r]

The 50s space movie were fun to watch as a kid, and 60 with real space flights was even better. It's not a bad flick of its time

[@paddyodriscoll8648]

The jet that can take the pressures in outer space. Ok then,,,, I think someone needs a basic physics lesson.

[@dathyr1]

LOL!!!!! Its a movie. Anything is possible in movies. Cool comment take care.

[@razorshark9320]

Crazy good movie.

[@sansabark]

6:48 the “giant” spaceship is moved by one guy.

[@JanicePeterson-hv4us]

pretty standard special effects for 1955. can't let ray harryhausen do them all.

[@l.salisbury1253]

This been n Mystery Science Theater 3000 or Svenghoulie yet? Imagine the FUN those guys would have with this...!

[@suebotchie4167]

So 50s, liked it :)

[@carycoller3140]

Visiting this new planet is like saying you're going to a new planet but you simply walk across the street to your neighbors house that's built just like yours.

[@manxkin]

No animals were harmed in the making of this film. Well, hardly any.

[@BALOYBEACHBUM]

There are no "pressures" in space it is a vacuum!

[@sharonellis8776]

This was a pretty decent movie considering how old it is. xx

[@JanicePeterson-hv4us]

what ia that giant insect? looks like cricket or cockroach/spider to me only good image is after it is dead lying on its back. Maybe a grasshopper. I think Joe is a kinkajou.

[@wmden1]

Boy, a person really has to suspend reality for this one. Jet engines, not rockets, to travel out of Earth's atmosphere and gravity, pressures in outer space, when outer space is almost a perfect vacuum, a fission reactor into space, back then, and etc.??? That's just the first 5 minutes. They did mention rockets, a couple of minutes later. Cashmere sweater, skirt and necklace, beauty shop hair, while picking rocks, as a geologist???

[@evelynwaugh4053]

I was surprised the women were actually wearing practical boots, but that was the extent of their practicality.

[@georgecoventry8441]

Yes, it does make you wonder.... 😄

[@theMG174]

Every one of these old movies has a cute gal impracticality all done up

[@wmden1]

@theMG174 It does make them more entertaining to pick them apart for stuff that doesn't really fit the circumstances. If the story and special effects are pretty good, it doesn't hurt the movie.

[@georgecoventry8441]

@@theMG174 - Yes! They figured they had to or people just wouldn't buy tickets. Now they figure they have to have a "strong woman", who outfights everyone else and is hopefully also a gay woman "of color", just to hit all the bullseyes. Things change, but they don't get any realer.

[@jeanmarcgrill6144]

Guess they travelled with the rocket ship to the country site

[@slowtheplanedown]

Amazing how that far off distant planet looks so much like Southern California...

[@robynnewsome-hall2550]

A great movie. Were we so naive Such a lovely silly movie.

[@carycoller3140]

When this movie was being talked about in pre-production, how did they seriously think people would believe these fake astronauts traveled to another planet when everything on this new plant is exactly like everything on Earth?

[@WilliamMcDougald-pm3fq]

The narrator and the Voice of Mission control must be related. They sound VERY SIMILAR to each other.

[@paulmiddleton4215]

how dare they disembark the spaceship without a full complement of tommy guns, hand grenades, and flame throwers.

[@Riteaidbob]

Alternate title: "The 4 Stooges go to Nova" We came, we saw, we blew up an atomic bomb. Let's go home now. The End.

[@rfjohns4452]

I wondered why sis and I never saw this one,until I watched it. The film didn't even have girls undressing to take a bath!.

[@brianchu3317]

I’ll take these 1950’s B sci-fi movies over the Marvels or Madam Webb anytime. 🙂🙂

[@TonyFromSyracuse101]

its not like people were stupid back then....I wonder if kids in the theater even back then were like come on.....thats clearly a potato bug and a baby crocodile! on another note, its kind of sad gone are the days when men in their 40's-50's could be the stars. today they just get the youngest people they can find.

[@marieannwalsh662]

And the women help out so much... You know, screaming and what not!

[@gorymarty56]

A Gordon flick is good grade b stuff

[@grahamholton8542]

the science in this is so bad

[@mugwugthemagnificful]

15:00 Ah nobody’s worried about the alien bacteria just mentioned. Okay just rip those suits off. Don’t worry I’m sure we won’t carry any strange flesh eating bacteria back to earth.

[@ronaldnanoz3592]

this must be the dumbest scientists to ever go to space

[@queenglamazona8789]

No. That would be the Crew of the Prometheus

[@marieannwalsh662]

What's with the atom b at the end???

[@mazzolaro1]

They went explored discovered and destroyed.

[@keithnaylor1981]

How could a ‘B’ movie from 1955 be anything other than ‘uncut’? Sex, Nudity, Gore and Violence had yet to be invented!!

[@TheSprocketVault]

Good question; here is the answer: Mystery Science Theatre produced a cut version. Our "uncut" version refers to the fact it was the version actually shown in theatres.

[@glitchnyrmatrix7296]

This was a great movie... No, I mean really! Very scary!!! The A- bomb Wafting 10 miles into the firmament and the space crew huddle behind the mound of dirt Looking at the plumage and thinking... Son of a bi*ch!

[@bettyfeliciano7322]

What happened to Joe????????

[@robertrocca6595]

[@flrpitflrp1965]

At least films have gotten past women screaming all the time

[@milannovak8372]

A totally AWFUL movie. I'm surprised the actors left their real names in the credits.

[@kevinballenger1211]

😂😂😂Those Were The WORST Special Effects I've Ever Seen😂😂😂

[@ronaldstrange8981]

It's worth watching if only to make you wonder how on earth could such a dreadful picture be made.

[@ronwaldron9626]

Worlds worse shelter, some smoke but no fire. He. let's. a 12ft. snake crawl on the guy. Yep, it's a 50,s B movie. But I watched the whole thing.😮

[@wendesmith6240]

Did the women shave their heads before setting off! Months in space according to the narrator and they arrive with short permed hair. As for the screaming and clutching of heads, words fail me. Since the 1950s when I first noticed such things I have loathed women in these sort of pictures. disaster films and most especially in westerns. Audio was great - didn't have to use the CCs.

[@davesnowjonesboro]

This is got to be the stupidest movie ever made!!

[@waynemallette8668]

wow, the opening score is a fucking mess.

[@AndreasausE.]

Ein widerlicher Film.

[@garryferrington811]

What a terrible old movie. You don't need anyone to help you make fun of this thing.

[@aarongibbs1974]

i was disappointed as i thought it would be stop motion dinosaurs. i stopped watching when the real life lizard and alligator were forced to fight each other for the sake of a lame movie!