Gwangi is the name given the giant tyrannosaur the cowboys try to lasso. That was the image that got everyone's attention:
“Ah, yes... The Valley of Gwangi, in which Ray Harryhausen’s cooler-than-real stop-motion special effects present us with the mind-boggling spectacle of cowboys battling dinosaurs. Yeah, you read that right-- cowboys vs. dinosaurs! This is a pretty stupid movie when you get right down to it, but it’s difficult to argue with something as endearingly bizarre as that…”
“… In summation, The Valley of Gwangi is an entertaining little exercise in genre-juggling. We’ve got the setting and major characters of a Western, the structure of a Lost World movie, an ending straight out of a 1950’s monster-rampage flick, and even a bunch of sinister Gypsies like you’d expect to see in an old werewolf or vampire film. The script is a bit silly, but it’s the
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Gwangi is the name given the giant tyrannosaur the cowboys try to lasso. That was the image that got everyone's attention:
“Ah, yes... The Valley of Gwangi, in which Ray Harryhausen’s cooler-than-real stop-motion special effects present us with the mind-boggling spectacle of cowboys battling dinosaurs. Yeah, you read that right-- cowboys vs. dinosaurs! This is a pretty stupid movie when you get right down to it, but it’s difficult to argue with something as endearingly bizarre as that…”
http://www.1000misspenthours.com/reviews/reviewsn-z/valleyofgwangi.htm
“… In summation, The Valley of Gwangi is an entertaining little exercise in genre-juggling. We’ve got the setting and major characters of a Western, the structure of a Lost World movie, an ending straight out of a 1950’s monster-rampage flick, and even a bunch of sinister Gypsies like you’d expect to see in an old werewolf or vampire film. The script is a bit silly, but it’s the ( ... )
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