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![]() ![]() Alongside deadly Doug McClure in the Victorian burrowing machine was Peter Cushing – never less than great value – in his bumbling professor mode.Ĭushing actually shoos away a man-in-suit bird-beaked monster with an umbrella in this beguilingly daft effort. This may be complete bunk but even if it’s untrue, it demands to be shared.ĭoug popped up in a sequel, too – The People That Time Forgot – as Patrick Wayne (son of Jaaaarn) returns to the hidden island to rescue him.Ĭonnor followed up that Burroughs adaptation with another. There’s also an anecdote about McClure punching through a wall during his audition. There’s a lot of craftsmanship on show, however, and the puppets are terrific. The lovingly-crafted dinos and hand-built miniature sets are a highlight, but a ludicrous pterodactyl glider and pantomime plesiosaur let the side down. Kevin Connor’s Edgar Rice Burroughs adaptation cast The Virginian star Doug McClure as the shooty, punchy American hero, leading a host of British actors on a captured German WWI submarine into battle against glove puppet dinosaurs and dinnerplate-browed cavemen. Let’s take an affectionate look at the sometimes genuinely terrible lizards of the past: 1. But, pre-CGI, our monsters were not always so impressive (by that I mean, they were not all animated by Ray Harryhausen). The original Jurassic Park signalled a new geological era of celluloid magic in 1993, with its eye-popping mix of practical effects and CGI (the latter is not used as much as you might think). ![]()
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