Bad Movie Review: Valley of the Dragons
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- They go a million years back in time ... and land a million miles out in space! We review Jules Verne Inspired adventure Valley of the Dragons (1961) - spoiler, there are no dragons,
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Summary: Algeria 1881. Two men, Michael Denning and Hector Servadac are having a duel with one another when a comet goes past the earth at low altitude. The strong wind this creates transports the two men to the moon. They find themselves in a jungle inhabited by reptiles and prehistoric humans. They have a difficult time before they manage to adapt to the dangers, but eventually they each find a girl to spend time with, awaiting the next return of the comet to take them back to Earth.
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Don't you hate it when you miss your comet and have to wait another seven years to get your hot cavegirls back to your place?
Worse still, then comets come at once.
@@DarkCornersReviews my word ! 🧐😟
Wondering how the prehistoric cave girls were going to adjust to Victorian France and England - at least Apollonia in THE GODFATHER got blown up, so Michael didn't have to worry about it!
I threw a rock at the "Like" button. You now owe me a new laptop.
3:22 I love your scientific advisor, Robin --- AND his new assistant. 🤣🤣
Ditto
Not assistant. Apprentice. All scientific advisors are wizards and have apprentices.
Yes I agree! Both are adorable.😊
@@lyndatuttle does that go for sorcerer s too?
@@andrewyoung2796 definately
I love the way they reacted to Rodan as if it was just an oddly coloured puffin or something.
I'm surprised Toho didn't sue them into oblivion for that Rodan scene.
I suddenly realised how conditioned by RUclips my brain has become when I fully expected a "FOOTAGE FLAGGED BY TOHO" caption.
Although he needed the paycheck at the time, I don't think Rodan's career ever recovered after he appeared in this film. I hear Godzilla mercilessly mocked his performance, which led to a permanent feud between the two former friends and Toho stars.
The Morlock footage convinced me that the title of your film should be "The Time Machine Broke."
“I don’t know how many times I’ve had to watch these poor stock wrestling lizards!”
I still can’t watch that same One Million BC clip without hearing the MST3K version of Robot Monster, where young alligator finally throws iguana, shows its jaws, and the comics riff, “Haaa, I win! 🐊”
Or their version of KING DINOSAUR, with the line "It's Gecko-Roman Wrestling!"
That Rodan appearance got a good laugh out of me.
I've forgotten which movie it was, but somebody copped *the close-ups of jet pilots* from _Rodan._ As with _Valley of the Dragons,_ it was converted to black-and-white. (EDIT: Might have been _Jet Attack!_ but I'll be damned if I'll sit through that turd again)
I regret to inform everyone that I actually OWN a copy of this; it's in a set, but that's really no excuse.
Tell your dad he should treat his assistant to an ice-cream sundae.
Or earlier, maybe Saturday!
Wow, great to see Dark Corners is expanding its science department. Well done.
French guy: "It's pronounced 'Rodin'".
That styrofoam spider is so wonderfully bad - I giggled when it toppled over - er, jumped - on the guy.
Great to see the Science Advisor and his lab assistant.
I actually kinda like this one. While limited by the stock footage, I quite like the film's cast and the story of two former rivals becoming friends.
Cesare Danova and Sean McClory are both really good actors and they have great chemistry.
Rodan’s surprise cameo is still my favorite part of this film, the rest is just too tedious to bear 😭 Although i forgot about the absolutely bonkers way they were transported there… and here i thought The Brainiac’s 300-year jaunt around the cosmos on a comet was absurd screenwriting 😅
Nice to see the Science Advisor has an assistant. Tackling these big questions sometimes requires two great minds.
Oh man thay dragged poor Rodan into this.
Did Rodan have anything to do with the actual plot of the movie?
@@NoirFan01 Rodan should be in every movie made. He would have been the missing piece from the Harry Potter films.
I hope that Rodan and those fighting lizards receive residuals for the multiple re-use of their images
@@NoirFan01 No! He just flew by, and caused me to spit my drink everywhere when I was watching this movie! It was like that time Courage the Cowardly dog opened a door, and King Ghidorah was outside!
Fun Fact: Both of the lead actors were in various episodes of Perry Mason!
And various episodes of The Rifleman
And the science advisor multiverse expands.
Toho Studio, the company that is giddy to copyright strike every video on RUclips that uses clips from their movies. Somehow I doubt they signed off on this movie using that Rodan clip.
What a coincidence that the place they were first on the comet looked exactly like the place where they had duel. Even the same ledge
One of mine is ONE MILLION YEARS B.C. (as opposed to ONE MILLION B.C.).
Another good one is THE LAND UNKNOWN. Unfortunately it has that same reptile footage, but it also has some clever animal suits and models.
I just wish that it had stuck to the second thing.
I've always found it amusing that Cesare Danova would later play the small, but important role of the mayor in "Animal House" (1978). He was the only character who Dean Wormer was afraid of. "So, if you mention extortion again, I'll have your legs broken. And another thing, you'd better sit on that zoo fraternity of yours. I don't want any drunken riots in my town."
Golly, even I've seen that lizard fight footage, and I'm no film buff!
Caveman (1981)
with Ringo Starr, Dennis Quaid, Shelley Long, John Matuszak, and Barbara Bach
Ringo and Barbara Bach became a Couple after that Movie.
A comet that came down like a guided missile. Must be one of those dimension teleporting comets.
That looked like the big, belly-up spider Angelina Joelie wore on her head in that Thor flick.
And for prehysteric times, I'd say One Million Years B'Cuz. Not just for Harryhausen effects but for the film's version of what were probably gigantopithecus. The tall freaky looking ape dudes scared the Hell out of me.
The actual Asian gigantopithecus was apparently the model for King Kong---or so I read or heard somewhere.
Cate Blanchette?
This. Looks. MAGNIFICIENT!
PS: cavemen movie nominee: Caveman (1981)
When we met Dark Corners Science Advisor's assistant I flashed back to Disneys Dinosaurs and the "We're going to need another Timmy" joke but I'm sure your Science Advisor will be more careful than that one 🤣
I didn’t know they made movies in prehistoric times. I’ll have to check them out!
What is a cave painting, if not an extremely short film?
I know it's not great, but I grew up watching Planet of the Dinosaurs. Had to get the Rifftrax of it since the regular DVD was too pricey, but it's a win-win since I get to not only rewatch a beloved childhood classic but also get Mike and the Bots, also beloved childhood heroes.
I love how your science advisor and his assistant are playing with dinosaurs!
"That's not how that works. That's not how any of this works."
Sort of like a really, really long episode of The Twilight Zone - If TTZ was really, really goofy and had no real lessons to teach you 🤔🤷♂️
"Please throw a rock at the Like button" was a stroke of creative genius. These videos have amazing ways to keep me watching to the very end, every time.
I'm not sure if anyone's mentioned it, but the "comet" is recycled from It Came From Outer Space.
Comets taking you away... well now we know where those "Heaven's Gate" cult crackpots got their idea!
Right?! I thought the same thing. 😆
@@shannondore And speaking of same, you may wish to read my above comments on this very (twisted) subject.
Put some recycled 'Giant Claw' footage in there and you have a classic!
That comet was as big as a battleship!
They should have shoehorned even more old footage! How about Karloff from The Old Dark House??? Carroll Borland as Luna from Mark Of The Vampire? Abbott and Costello from Buck Privates Come Home??? Really could have worked.
Devil-Girl from Mars, too?
caveman girlfriend, caveman wife, caveman divorce. The never ending story
When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth is one of my favorite prehistoric flick of 1970.
Certainly a lot better than Valley of the Dragons.
@@robotb9-606 yes, it is! One Million Years B.C. and When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth are better than Valley of the Dragon Ballz. Along with King of the Zombies is one of my favorite Mantan Moreland movie of 1941.
Favorite prehistoric movies would be "King Kong" the 1933 version and the 1976 version. I also have a soft spot for the 70's tv show "Land of the lost."
And was that one french guy from the Bronx? He sure sounded like it.🤣
No, no. *Le* Bronx.
I really hope that you’re doing “Night of the Blood Monsters” next.
I thought I'd seen almost every movie of this type from this era, but apparently I was spared from this one. But now my drive for completism may force me to seek this one out and suffer through it.
Scientific Advisor. Companion. TARDIS next? Please lord let it be so.
Plus an Edwardian roadster named Bessie 😄
I am not surprised about Rodan's "cameo". In one of Verne's books, Godzilla fights against Mazinger Z, piloted by no other than Napoleon III.
Just how this hasn't been on MST3K or Rifftrax is beyond me. And how (or why) didn't TOHO immediately slap this movie with the world's biggest lawsuit for that Rodan footage?
I don't see this sort of movie as ripping of whole chucks of better movies but as a valuable lesson in recycling which makes it well ahead of its time.
But you do have to give it credit the whole prehistoric world scooped off the earth by a comet is at least unique.
PS: I've binged watched all the videos on this channel and yeah I'm a little over that fight but I like to glass half full it no more animals were hurt in the making of those movie
One cavewoman originally from Paris, one from Minnesota. Frenchman from Italy…
it's a small world, one of the guys with a full beard and a spear used to ride the same subway as me
I remember YEARS ago I got home from closing my local Pub down & caught part of this on Late-Night TV... But could NEVER remember the name! Thanks DCR as always! & anymore Live Chats in the near future???
Yes, we are going live on Saturday... but something a little different.
@@DarkCornersReviews Looking forward to it... whatever it is! gotta work Sat. Nights... but will try to make it!✌
I threw a rock at the like button. Now I'm typing this from the moon.
It's like a B&W theatrical-length episode of an Irwin Allen TV series.
love this movie, having seen it on Svengoolie, we laughed so much 😆
"What are your favorite prehistoric movies?" The best prehistoric movie that I have seen almost has to be "Quest for Fire" (1981). Of course, the opening section of "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968) is notable and, now that I think about, could serve as more of a commentary on how human society developed than as an explanation for the evolution that followed. In at least its first couple of seasons, the British TV series "Primeval" (2007-2011) had some very interesting scenes in prehistoric (and posthistoric) times.
I loved (sort of) that show. In fact, I was kinda ticked when the shitty ol' SyFy channel gave it the proverbial boot.
@@ashleys9397 I take your point, but, in truth, the show had kind of run its course. Shows have a lifespan. A lot them are cut short, but a few run a little too long.
Did you ever see "Caveman" where the only one who spoke English was the Asian one?
Though it doesn't hold up quite as well as it did in the early 80s, CAVEMAN still has a lot to recommend it. Among the principal of these is, of course, Ringo Starr and the then "Mrs. Starr", Barbara Bach.
@@ashleys9397 And where else can you see a T-Rex getting stoned after creeping up on a group of people almost on tiptoes?
Wow, they could have at least gotten the title of the Verne short story right. It is either "Off On a Comet" or, more accurately, "Hector Servadac or the Career of a Comet."
Really wish your dad had his own RUclips channel. Not going to lie.
Science Adviser, "Oh, nooo"
This was produced by Columbia which also distributed Rodan. Hence they had access to the footage.
My mistake. Rodan was distributed by the King Brothers--I was thinking of Mothra. But wouldn't it have been great if Mothra had shown up in this one too?
As a kid I really liked this film, but, since then, having raised and bred monitor lizards and Tegus, I find the "dinosaur" battles rather distressing to watch now.
It's a pity that the A.S.P.C.A. never launched a serious litigation campaign against the motion picture companies for this patently inhumane practice.
@@ashleys9397 Back then, nobody cared about reptiles as they were widely perceived as stupid and vicious. Also, they weren't cute and cuddly. I've found a Tegu lizard to be a more personable animal, in its own way, than a rabbit.
Favorite prehistoric movie is still One Million Years BC. Raquel Welch and that furry bikini are one of the best pairings Hammer ever came up with.
I have a bit of a comet update for anyone who might be interested: First off, everybody ought to know by now that Halley's comet is definitely OUT in New York. The real society upper crust will acknowledge & admit nothing but Tuttle's comet. There are, however, a few pockets of fanatics in Forest Hills & the outer Hamptons who scorn the above-mentioned in favor of the Giacobini--Zinner comet, the Pons--Winmecke comet, and/or the Whipple--Fedtke--Tevzadze comet(s). But these are generally considered cults and therefore not respectable.
I’ve always been a Hale-Bopp man myself 🧐
@@Gappasaurus I do believe I've heard of Hale Bopp...somewhere. Let's see....Is Hale Bopp anything at all like (let's say) Helium Bop? Or Unskinny Bop? Maybe Blitzkrieg Bop? Or the still popular Horizontal Bop?
Hold on a second here...I think one of my neural memory pathway connections just clicked on. O.K....it's not a current or past dance craze. Right? Hale Bopp---Isn't that the famous and widely-viewed comet that got associated with some goofy-ass loony-toons UFO/alien contactee cult out in Wild Californy somewhere? Yeah, it's coming back to me. For some arcane reason or another they named themselves after some infamous Hollywood movie shit bomb. "Heaven's Gate", I think it was, Yeah I seem to remember it all now. They're the ones who snuffed themselves in a Jonestown-style group end-it-all so that their souls/spirits/anima/pneuma/elan vital---or whatever fuckall else you wanna call it---could depart from their mortal "vessels" (i.e., physical bodies) to go hitch the death ride aboard the cosmic choo-choo heading for the Big Nowhere. Yeah. They're the ones.
Boy! Some people will just go and do some of the nuttiest darn things. Don't you find too?
@@ashleys9397 Now that you mention it, it may actually be more of a _she bop, he bop, we bop, I bop, you bop, they bop, be-bop, be-bop-a-loo-bop, oh, she do, she bop_ kinda thing 🤔
Wow! Ashley. 😆🤣
Me like movie where me understand language! Movie speak to Oomack, Oomack like.
Master of the World: another Verne adaption from 1961 starring Henry Hull who shouts every line of his dialogue...
The prehistoric segment of Buster Keaton's Three Ages is my fav.
I do not believe a comet is what the filmmakers think it is.
Is there a colorised version of this?
With a bit of trimming on the infamous animal crocodile vs lizard scene, this is still plenty of fun, and the volcano-erruption could worth the colourisation.
I'd want my money back.Growing up in the 70's having to watch 1959 The Lost World was bad enough but this is BAD
The special effects budget of this must be nearly £67...bloody awful.
No comment on Joan Staley's swimming scene?
Another in the Ed Wood mode of movie making; steal scenes from other movies to make your own film. Surprised we didn't get a giant rubber octopus and paper plate flying saucers. Best prehistoric movie? ONE MILLION YEARS BC ( 1968). For some strange reason, folks who make dinosaur movies just can't help putting giant spiders in them.
Giant spiders could be in every film made and it would be okay with me.
@@buzzawuzza3743 I think I found the first movie with a giant spider TARZAN'S DESERT ADVENTURE. PS It was really, really slow.
@@buzzawuzza3743 EIGHT--LEGGED FREAKS is just so totally righteous! Yeah, I'm all for giant spiders in every movie. Particularly dismal romantic comedies & anything with Angelina Jolie in it.
@@danddoty3981 I think the Movie you're referring to is actually called Tarzan's Desert Mystery. And It's another film with Recycled Stock Footage from One Million B.C.
@@robotb9-606 That's the one. Saw it couple weeks back. At least when JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH used lizards they created new footage. VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA reused their footage from THE LOST WORLD over and over again. But at least THE LOST WORLD had a cool glowing green giant spider.
I suppose that it was implied that the character couldn't find the North Star in the absence of the presence of the Big Dipper/Little Dipper. The sky looked incredibly dense with stars, with no noticeable constellations. I'll bet your dad can verify this. Otherwise - nice review! I'm watching the movie on Tubi as we speak.
Rodan's appearance in this one really is surprising considering how litigious Toho can be (try adding the "-zilla" suffix to anything and their lawyers will show up in practically seconds!); not sure how this film got away with it, other than they figured barely anyone would see it?
As for cribbing One Million B.C. footage...yeah, it's almost easier to make a list of where that caiman/lizard fight HASN'T shown up!
Caveman would actually be the first dinosaur movie I ever watched. sadly I got an F for my report on the dinosaur era thanks to that movie. oh well worth it.
I think it's nice to include your dad in your video. This is pretty silly..but then this was in the 50's or 60's and let's just say audiences weren't very smart back then...I remember Rodan 😊
They're still not very smart.
I want to know what comet brought my dinosaur toys from the 1980's back to present day.
Did that poor woman get killed by oatmeal? 6:38
I would actually like this premise, if the mechanism for the external plot were fantasy or mystically oriented.
I rather like ' When Women Had Tails ' . At least the silliness is intentional , and even though she's sporting a tail , Senta Berger is still a lovely sight to behold.
Tails look good on some girls.
So they used the Rodan footage without Toho's permission? And Toho didn't sue?
The concept of this film is great and I can smell a potential, if not horrible, modern remake.
Rodan…well they’re obviously just outside of Tokyo
My favourite dinosaur movie is of course Jurassic Park (even if it's technically not a prehistoric movie), I really like The Flintstones. Now that I think about it the prehistoric setting would be a great setting for video games.
Favourite prehistoric movie? I've only seen Quest for Fire and the Roland Emmerich one. So, I'll say Quest for Fire.
Rae Dawn Chong was in that one, and Ron Perlman
Rolland Emmerich? I guess you mean 10, 000 B.C.
Planet of the Dinosaurs, Valley of Gwangi, The Lost World (1925) and the Ghost of Slumber Mountain.
I just watched Mysterious Planet(1982). Man, that was really at the bottom. Running two separate dialogue tracks at the same time two people are talking to each other and with reverb? Ugh. But Brett Piper’s direction always has a naive charm.
.... I kinda like this movie. Not enough that I have it in my collection or anything, but I've seen it several times on Svengoolie, and I kinda like it.
I can’t remember the name of the pre-historic film reviewed by this channel, but in the film the narrator says, “Swan dives were invented before the swans.” Your response, “Until then they were just called a Luxury Goose!”
I actually had to look this up to check, it was Prehistoric Women.
Dinosaurus was pretty terrible, that kid is massively annoying and somehow survived... He was desperate for friends. 😂
I'm pretty sure I shook my head in disbelief at this movie as many times as I did watching this vid of the movie.
Robin, where do you get the great shirts from?
Can't remember where we got this from. Most cone from Last Exit To Nowhere, but we will be releasing our own designs next week.
This coulda been so great if it just had a Green Goblin Semi Truck. 🤔
This was 2 decades after One Million B.C. And they're still reusing the footage. I guess they thought they could get away with a lot before VHS existed!
It's bad, but I didn't think it was Dark Corners worthy. Meh. Just my opinion. I watched it on Svengoolie and marginally enjoyed it
It's actually a pretty fun film.
Been wanting to watch this ever since I saw the trailer on Don Glut’s ‘Dinosaur Movies’ (1993) vhs 😂
Of course, being French, Servadac calls the pteranodon 'Rodin'.
Caveman shouldn't come to mind for me when you ask about best prehistoric movies...and yet it does.
I believei n the Jules Verne book they get off the comet with a hot air balloon when it gets close enough to the Earth.
Somebody made an Animated Version of that Story once.
Not really sure if you can find it anywhere.
Spoilers-There were no Dinosaurs in it.
@@docsavage-8616 I saw that one as a kid. The 1979 animated one, you can see the trailer on RUclips. There's also 'The Adventures of Jules Verne' animated series :p
I was thinking they'd probably get home by balloon.
Then I read up on the Jules Verne story.
Guess what happens?
I'm partial to "One Million Years BC", though "Caveman" has it for low comedy. Anybody know if they got permission for the Roday footage?
Yet another Movie where they Recycled Stock Footage from One Million B.C.
I actually always liked the lead actors, particularly Sean McClory.