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Central And South America | Professor
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Top Action Drama | 1961
One of the last screen credits for Willis H. O'Brien who was the mastermind behind the special effects for the original King Kong (1933). O'Brien's input was largely restricted to hundreds of conceptual sketches for the dinosaurs. Budget limitations meant that none of them were realized on film.
Director Irwin Allen wanted to use stop-motion dinosaurs for this film, but due to budget reasons he had to use lizards - mainly monitor lizards - as dinosaurs. Plastic horns and spikes were attached to them to make them look more like dinosaurs.
When the two monsters are fighting, a pair of hands can be seen pushing them together.
Irwin Allen wanted stop motion for the special effects, but the film's budget precluded that, so they were forced to work with lizards and other reptiles. 20th Century Fox had no option but to slash the budgets of all their feature productions at the time as costs on Cleopatra (1963) were starting to spiral out of control.
David Hedison was reluctant about making the film as he didn't think the material was any good. Seeing Jill St. John dressed in a pink outfit with a poodle on set didn't do much to make him think differently. Nevertheless, he applied himself anyway, to the extent that Irwin Allen offered him the lead in his next film, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961). Hedison turned it down but would later take a part in Allen's TV series based on the submarine film.
"Professor George Edward Challenger: [to the people at the Zoological Institute] Live dinosaurs!"
"Lord John Roxton: [Talking about the native girl] She's a hundred pounds of walking dynamite."
