Matrixiole Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Robert Joyner The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Jackson Booth-Millard There were many movies made in the 1950s and 1960s about characters finding undiscovered territories with mythical beasts and them going on a rampage, this was one of those films I was interested in trying. Basically at the turn of the century, from the 19th to the 20th, in Mexico, female cowboy T.J. Breckenridge (Gila Golan) hosts a wild west rodeo show that is struggling, she is reacquainted with her former stuntman and former lover Tuck (James Franciscus). Tuck wants to buy her out, but T.J. has a trick up her sleeve to boost business, a Eohippus, a miniature prehistoric horse, this creature however comes from The Forbidden Valley, a convoy of gypsies are convinced it is cursed, they demand it be returned to the valley. British palaeontologist Professor Horace Bromley (Diamonds Are Forever's Laurence Naismith) has been working in the nearby desert, he is fascinated by the horse, but more so to find out more about its home, so he travels with Tuck, T.J. and her men to The Forbidden Valley in search of other prehistoric specimens. There the crew find a range of living dinosaurs, including a Pteranodon, an Ornithomimus and a Styracosaurus, they battle with these creatures, but the one that dominates all of them, and that humans want the most, is the Allosaurus, known as Gwangi by the gypsies. The Gwangi is captured by the men and taken to T.J.'s show, crowds gather to see this unseen creature, but a gypsy sets it free, the dinosaur attacks and kills many people in the town, including Bromley, until it is stabbed and trapped in a building that is burned to the ground. Also starring Richard Carlson as Champ, Freda Jackson as Tia Zorina and Gustavo Rojo as Carlos. There isn't really anything you can say about the fairly wooden actors, the story is patchy and predictable, an unsuccessful circus trying to save itself by finding a new attraction, but there are the present and ancient creatures, brought to life by the great stop- motion animation by Ray Harryhausen, the music by Jerome Moross (The Big Country) is sweeping in bits as well, it is not the most exciting, but it is an average routine western fantasy. Okay!

OllieSuave-007 I remember seeing this dinosaur movie when I was a kid - as a dino fan, anything dinosaur is movies was intriguing for me.A dinosaur was captured by cowboy James Franciscus and brought to the Mexican circus. Of course, it's all mayhem while the T-rex escapes and wrecks havoc upon the town and threatening its citizens.It was neat seeing the T-Rex roaming around and serving up some neat dino action and mayhem. The stop motion special effects weren't bad for its time, but the overall plot was little boring if I recalled and the acting was pretty mediocre.But, not a bad special effects film - definitely better than some of the black and white B-movies.Grade C+

bkoganbing Ray Harryhausen has a unique place in the history of film and it's not the quality of his work. A lot of players are box office names, a few director/producers like Cecil B. DeMille, Alfred Hitchcock, Frank Capra, and Walt Disney most of all bring people in with having their names on a film. But Ray Harryhausen is the only one in his profession as a special effects man who brings folks to the theater. That's the best tribute of all for him.Late in the 19th century Gita Golan owner of a small wild west show is playing Mexico and she's got a unique attraction as she has found a small horse, an ancient eohippus which has come out of a valley said to be cursed and inhabited by fierce creatures called the Gwangi. An old flame who works for Buffalo Bill, James Franciscus and some of his wild west show cowboys show up to track down the little horse after some local gypsies under the direction of Freda Jackson set it free.But what they run into is an ancient tyrannosaurus which is called a Gwangi by the locals. It's like when Carl Dedham spotted King Kong, got to get this guy back to civilization and make a bundle off him.The plot is outrageous with some great overacting by Freda Jackson as the old gypsy crone and Laurence Naismith as a palaeontologist all in the spirit of fun. I love it when Franciscus and the cowboys discover that the reason their bullets are having no affect on the big guy is they're using blanks from the show. Does it deter them, it does not they set about to lariat T-Rex and play an interesting an deadly game of tag.When they do capture him and later destroy him, it's with a lot of luck and some natural forces in nature.Dopey plot, but that's part of the fun. And the work of Ray Harryhausen is the reason to see the film and in that you won't be disappointed.

poj-man I always wanted to see Valley of The Gwangi. I mean, it has dinosaurs in it so what is there not to like? The story, plot and acting are all just terrible. This is a MST 3000 flashing blue light special. The Harryhausen F\X are the last that he did and it is obvious that time had passed his style by.There is base B grade movie charm as well as a babe and comedic sidekick action. There are gypsies. There is also an absolutely hilarious ending fight sequence where James Franciscus acts out for the first time scenes he will replay a couple years later in Beneath The Planet of the Apes...complete with organ blast! If you like B grade cheesy dinosaur movies then you will enjoy Gwangi. otherwise...stay away!