RE: "Cowboy Dinosaur" for the masses

[Allan Edels <edels@msn.com>]

Mary Sue Henry wrote:

> >>I may have missed it, but did anyone mention that a film was made back
> in the 60's or 70's that included both cowboys and dinosaurs?  In the
> film the cowboys got into a hidden valley that was full of dinosaurs.
> It kind of used the "King Kong" plot, and they roped a dinosaur, brought
> it back to civilization, exhibited it in a carnival, it broke loose,
> etc.
> Mary Sue

Yes, you missed my earlier message which went, in part:

> > > "Valley of the Gwangi" is not about fossil hunters, and not exactly in 
> > > the Old West (It takes place in Mexico, around the 1900's).  It does have 
> > > cowboys and a British paleontologist ("Sir Horace Bromley"  - thank you 
> > > IMDb :-)), as well as an _Eohippus_. <<<


It also has a circus, and the Allosaur dies in a firery blaze inside a 
church!  Great Ray Harryhausen effects throughout.  BTW, the film was 
released in 1969.

I, in turn, didn't see your message because I couldn't read it in Hotmail 
(if I get my Outlook working again after the last update, maybe I could read 
it).  Sorry.

Hope this helps,

Allan Edels