| King Dinosaur | |
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| Directed by | Bert I. Gordon |
| Produced by | Bert I. Gordon Al Zimbalist (Executive Producer) |
| Written by | Bert I. Gordon Tom Gries Al Zimbalist |
| Narrated by | Marvin Miller |
| Starring | William Bryant Wanda Curtis |
| Music by | Louis Palange Gene Garf (uncredited) |
| Cinematography | Gordon Avil |
| Editing by | Jack Cornall |
| Running time | 63 min. |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $15,000 (estimated) |
King Dinosaur is a 1955 science fiction film starring William Bryant and Wanda Curtis with narration by Marvin Miller. This film was featured on season 2 of Mystery Science Theater 3000.
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Four astronauts in 1960 travel to a planet called Nova that has just entered Earth's solar system. The crew begins to study the planet to see if it's able to withstand a possible Earth colony. After first discovering normal Earth animals such as a kinkajou and an alligator, but they soon encounter giant insects, dinosaurs, prehistoric mammals and the titular character, a Tyrannosaurus Rex.
The film was directed over a three-day period by Bert I. Gordon and was Gordon's debut. The scene where the atom bomb explodes are stock footage from an atom bomb test. The scenes of the giant prehistoric armadillo and the attacking Mastodon were stock footage recycled from the film One Million BC.
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