I first saw this film when I was a kid, and BBC 2 (I think) were showing a series of Monster/Horror films. I have a soft spot for the movie, but for a very nerdy reason. When the reports first come through about disturbances off the Irish coast, the navy, scientists and jerks head out there to see what's going on. They ask the stereo-typed Irish fishermen what is going on, and the fishermen reply in Gaelic. The 'heroes' ask what was said, and they are told that what was said was, "We don't speak to Englishmen!" As an Irish/Gaelic speaker, I can confirm that this is exactly what is said - "Ní labhraimis le Sasannaigh!" does translate as just that. I was always quite pleased that the film makers, rather than just throwing in any sort of gobbledegook, took the time to not only find out what the correct line was, but actually get actors/extras who could pronounce the line correctly. It's a small point, I know, but it's why I have always had a soft spot for Gorgo.
This Was A good GIANT monster Movie, For 1961. For Me Its A Great Classic, And Interesting It"s From The U.K. Not Many Movies Like This Coming From That Country. Except For The Awesome Hammer Films.
YAY!!! YAHOO!!! GORGO was the first giant monster movie I saw on the big screen! It was winter and me and my sister wanted to see 101 DALMATIANS, but the theater was sold out for the evening's showings, so rather than driving home disappointed, my father took us to another movie theater that was showing the film on a double bill with VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA !! a fantastic night for me and sis !!! (It took another year before GODZILLA arrived on tv in my area!! )
I saw this as a kid and I loved it. It wasn't as silly and unbelievable as Godzilla. As for the 2 guys being jerks, I think that's the point. It's a morality tale: this is what happens when you let greed dictate your actions.
For me, the high point of Gorgo was the revelation that the two sailors had captured a baby and that the mother was much bigger. Unfortunately, that couldn't have been more than half way through the movie. The stock footage of military operations is kind of tedious, as I recall.
Gorgo is what you get when you take the human villain of the original Mothra and make him the protagonist. It's not a pretty sight. As for my choice of city to get trampled under foot by a giant monster, as morbid as it is, I say should go to Amsterdam. The juxtaposition of people running from fear from the monster and people not noticing because their high is too great an opportunity to pass up.
This is my wife's favorite monster movie. Personally gorgo and the giant Behemoth are no comparison in terms of moving realistically compared to the beast from 20,000 fathoms which is a ray harryhausen creation. As for Australia ,well I was thinking they could have made a movie about a giant prehistoric kangaroo that came to life and pounced on Sydney and Melbourne. But then maybe Olivia Newton-John wouldn't have been born and then there would be no Grease and then there would be no....well you get the idea. Lol
I want to see San Diego get trashed by a giant monster. We have a famous bridge and a famous clock tower, just like London & Japan. We've already been attacked by killer tomatoes and a T-rex. Now it's time for something much bigger to lay waste to America's finest city. As for "Gorgo", I'll agree that it's not as emotional as the original Godzilla, despite how much it tries. But as a man-in-a-suit monster movie goes, it's very well done.
Spot on analysis, Robin. I once heard a Film Studies lecturer state that Gorgo was a parable about capitalism in post war Britain. Sigh. Really, it's just poor writing and plotting due to the producers messing with the ending. It would have been much more satisfying if the Government had just taken baby Gorgo back to the sea, and thrown the jerks to Mrs Gorgo .
Note that "Gorgo" was produced by brothers Frank and Maurice King, veterans of Hollywood's "Poverty Row". (You get a rather unflattering picture of them in "Trumbo"; when blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo approached them to make "The Brave One", which elevated the Kings and began Trumbo's climb out from under the blacklist.) "Gorgo" is 1961, years before kaiju monsters became child-friendly; nowadays it's a requirement.
Actually, Eugene Lourie wanted the city of Paris to suffer the onslaught of mother Gorgo but it was ruled out because Paris was farther inland. So, London was chosen.
I actually think that Gorgo was a pretty decent movie. As in The Day The Earth Stood Still, the little boy, Sean, is the only character who has any common sense. And the best part is when everyone finds out that Gorgo is only a baby. The rampage Gorgo's Mom goes on when she gets to London is cool. I love this movie. There, I said it!
A Towering Rampage of Hilarity From Dark Corners! A Real Pleasure As Always! I'd like to see Detroit get Monster-Shambled, just to see if anyone can see the difference.
Actually, it was the death of the monster from "The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms" that made the director's daughter cry, not the death of the sea monster from "The Giant Behemoth".
Love your channel! For me, the movie doesn't make me care either way about the two lead guys (although I see it as a cautionary tale about their bad decisions, not lauding them), but instead it makes me care about Gorgo! I love this movie, and oddly enough, am waiting on its original vintage one-sheet poster right now in the mail!
I don't think Godzilla was ever really evil. One fine day a nice man named Gorilla Whale woke up -- because someone blew up his house. He then swam to try to find a new home, and banged his head on a floating hard object with a bunch of screaming little human things. But hey, they had lots of fish. Yum yum. He then arrives to some farm land. Lots of little human things. They didn't taste good. But the four legged cow things tasted awesome. Unfortunately, there was no place to sleep, because the land was filled with square patches of water and rice. He walked north to find a cave, and saw two paths. It was dark. One path looked empty, the other path looked like it had more human things and giant weird rock houses. He tried to walk to the empty path, but then was electrocuted by some evil invisible spider webs. So, reluctantly, he walked through the human houses. Lots of humans attacked him, so he blew fire on them. Finally, he arrived in a giant bay, where there was a huge cave. He went to sleep. Then an evil human thing released something in the water that murdered the nice Gorilla Whale. :( Godzilla, a tragedy :( At the end of the day, we were the monsters all along.
Thanks for another hilarious video. Although I personally like Gorgo (mostly for the impressive visual effects of that time), it does have its flaws and Robin is great at highlighting them. My friends and I use to love poking fun at this film ourselves, especially the radio reporter who always seems to be right at the scene (even with debris falling all around him) and never gets hurt. Even at the end, he gives us a great lecture on the "smallness of man" compared to the might of Gorgo. As for a city I would like to see get destroyed in a monster movie, that would be Miami, Florida. I have nothing against the city itself, it just seems like the perfect target for a monster rising out of the sea with all the big hotels and beaches. I don't think Miami has ever been attacked by any giant creature in movies that I can remember, so there is a first time for anything.
I'm from Florida, and, had many a great evening of partying along Miami beach's sidewalk bars and restaurants. Now that I think about it, I can't think of any giant monster film where Miami gets attacked. Or even small monsters, for that matter.
You couldn't find a trailer for (the film of?) "Quatermass and the Pit" with a crowd fleeing and a voiceover saying "What pursues this terrified man", could you? It's one of the first clips I ever remember seeing, but the series is on youtube and this phrase doesn't appear. I would love to know if my memory is correct.
I think Lourie's daughter was upset when The Beast From 20 thousand fathoms died, not the Behemoth--more likely due to Harryhausen's having added so much 'character' to the Beast.
I saw in a documentary about this movie that on the way home from the premiere of Beast she got very upset that the Beast at the end and told him so. He replied that he promised to make a movie where the monster doesn't die. I think that it's lovely he kept his promise.
@@nickmitsialis The MST3's didn't make it. I just found it on RUclips. It's called Gorgo Documentary and it's on a channel called Groovy Flicks. Enjoy!
"The plot [...] requires you to care so much about the finances of [...] jackasses that you're willing to ignore the enormous loss of life incurred in their quest for personal gain." I don't know - Jurassic Park did pretty well at the box office LOL
There was only about ten people on the island at the time of the movie's events, and only five deaths across the whole movie, one of which probably went entirely unnoticed.
I think because I had more sympathy to Gorgo and his mother than the two jerks, I still enjoy the film. I also enjoy its appearance on MST3K and your review here, but I'm an odd person.
Fun Fact: both actor William Sylvester and FX supervisor Tom Howard would be involved in Kubrick's 2001 (Howard sharing the FX Oscar win with Kubrick and Douglas Trumbull), and cinematographer F.A. Young would shortly after this film collaborate with David Lean starting with LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, his first Oscar win out of three (the others for Lean's DOCTOR ZHIVAGO and RYAN'S DAUGHTER).
This is actually my favorite monster movie, because the plot consists of a mother coming to rescue her child. I don't care that the humans are stupid (wanting to make money instead of caring who might die). That's how so many humans are in real life and other fantasy films (see Jurassic Park) that I wasn't bothered by it. I also loved that the small boy knew what would happen and was ignored... proof adults should listen to children more. Finally, I loved the music written for the film... one of the loveliest themes for a monster I've ever heard. This film has just been released on 4K with many extras. My copy arrived yesterday. I'm looking forward to seeing it on the big screen I've got here at home.
Let’s see in SPECTRE. Bond destroys an entire city block and nearly kills everyone in the Day of the Dead festival and that’s just the pretitles. Not much chance of the producers wanting to go back to making a “spy” film. Actually a busy poster might save you the expense of sitting through the film ... much like a Dark Corners review.
In 1961 the biggest known dinosaur was the brontosaurus, that was less that 80'. The brontosaurus never really existed. An interesting tidbit about Gorgo, which MST3K mocked, is there were no women in credited acting roles. There were a couple of women listed as stunt performers.
FINALLY! Someone points out that everything that happens in this movie was all Joe Rogan's and Sam Slade's (The two main characters) fault. Everyone always takes a shot at the little kid because that notion of having little kids in Monster Movies. But here's the thing, the kid was 100% right!
Actually, I've always thought this one was pretty good. Yes, it had its flaws, but as giant monsters tearing up cities go, this one was a real classic, and London was a highly entertaining setting as well. Yes, Gorgo should definitely have eaten or stepped on the two greedy jerks who stole her infant. We're agreed on that.
My favorite character in this movie is the little boy Sean, who seems to have more common sense about the Gorgo situation than all of the film's adult characters put together!
I don't know, I think Sydney getting destroyed by a giant monster would be a good movie. I can imagine a big monster stomping across the Opera House and pulling down the Harbour Bridge could be impressive. Also, I want Washington to be destroyed by a giant monster because Donald Trump is President of America right now. The monsters aren't allowed to go there once he is no longer president. Also, a monster can stomp across Moscow anytime because Putin doesn't seem to have any plans to go for a while.
Love your reviews of these old movies. Most of them I don't remember the titles, but do remember seeing them as a kid. Couldn't sit through them today but it's fun to go through summaries with your commentary.
I thought your hero Eric Holder did an investigation into the Ferguson PD and the Michael Brown shooting? Oh yeah, that's right he did. Eric Holder found no wrong-doing of the police and said in his report that the hands up scenario never occured. Try again.....
Personally, I enjoyed it. Yes, it's nonsense, but so are giant monster movies generally. Besides, who doesn't want to see London destroyed? Incidentally, you may not be aware that a sequel (of sorts) was made a few years ago. An independently made short film called "Waiting For Gorgo". It was shown at the Festival of Fantastic Films a few years ago, and it was so well-received that it was shown again at the end of the festival. I don't know if it's available commercially, but it's well worth watching if you get the chance.
I rremember seeing a still from this in a horror movie book - remember those? It's partly in this clip, three men in a rowing boat with a giant claw above them....young me thought 'WOW, THIS MOVIE LOOKS AMAZING!'
Gorge is my favorite Giant Monster movie. Like the original Frankenstein I was rooting for the monster. Now I want you to review It Came from the Bottom of the Sea. That film had a giant monster that was real, the Kraken has been discovered and the creatures motivation for attacking ships and people made sense.
I'm sure under the same scrutiny any Giant monster movie is going to sound ridiculouos , Godzilla being the exception...seriously? London's answer to Godzilla is kickass...love "Gorgo".
I’d like to see the Gorgo family visit for Washington DC. Maybe they can drain the swamp of corrupting lobbyists, self-serving politicians, and feckless bureaucrats.
While I generally love British Sci-Fi, they spend more money on writing and characters than FX, they never seemed to understand Big Monster Movies. Gorgo was NO Godzilla. Thank you for the post.
Fresno, California. We're kind of flat & uninteresting, so a giant monster of some sort would liven things up. Only problem is, we have no major buildings or landmarks to be destroyed, so the monster would have to make do with cars & freeways and the local agriculture. We're near to Yosemite National Park, perhaps the monster could emerge from Half Dome which turns out to be an ancient egg! Realistically, however, San Francisco is ripe for a giant monster attack, by land or by sea, with lots of tourist attractions to flatten.
As an Australian I should be personally offended by this, but as the Sydney Opera House didn't open until the early 1970s I have to admit that Gorgo demolishing a few lighthouses, and maybe having a go at the Sydney Harbour Bridge, might have been slim pickings. Still, it's a bit harsh......
You forgot to mention the scene of the 4-million volts loaded into the cables around baby Gorgo's pit, designed to kill mama Gorgo when she comes to rescue her progeny. It's inspired by the final scene of "Quatermass Xperiment", aka ''The Creeping Unknown" (1955) with the incomparable Brian Donlevy as Pr. Quatermass the most dangerous mad scientist because of sanity.
We've already had gigantic grasshoppers attack Chicago in "The Beginning of the End", with rather uneven special effects. For now, I'd like to see gigantic critters attack Trump properties...
I watch this video when I need a hefty dose of snarky mockery, or those ol' reliable cutaways to film characters' lines taken out of context and made to seem like they're referring to the host's latest remark. :D
The whole movie was pretty much recycled bits and pieces from other movies ; nothing original. They've destroyed New York at least three times , London twice , every city in Japan a whole bunch of times , San Francisco , Las Vegas , Chicago , LA twice that I know of , Rome and Seoul. In DESTROY ALL MONSTER they attacked New York ( make that four) , London , Moscow , Paris , Peking , Sydney ( finally got their turn ) and a trailer park in Arizona. Saint Louis would be great because you have the Gateway Arch to show how big the monster is.
Shouldn't it be: "No one tell HER where Madame Tussaud's is..." ? (04:06).... and "Stop it?? That's HIS destination...." (04:37). Hmmm. Gender issues? Still, good points on a silly movie I have loved all my life, but mainly I first saw it on the big screen when I was 10, and became obsessed with Big Ben. Not Gorgo, but Big Ben.
If you love big monsters and big ben (or Elizabeth tower as it is now called.... apprently... but no one uses it...) you will love this ruclips.net/video/J2w1INr4fTM/видео.html
This may seem a very American point of view but a larger than life and angry animal running around that wants to kill you almost all the time is not that uncommon in Australia and probably means a godzilla attack is more like a walk to the grocery store means a kaiju film wouldn't make sense cause if it really happened no one would care and would just say bugger off and it would be either gunned down or kangarooed or boomeranged to death in a matter of minutes so yea thats why they got passed up for England
Again the host has made a couple of errors. For instance, this film, under the title KURU ISLAND, was supposed to take place in Tokyo, as a co-production with Japanese producers, and not in Australia. Does it matter? Does anyone care? If we are here strictly for laughs, I'd guess not, and I'm just a spoil sport. Only a couple more thoughts: I understood the point of the characters was to help illustrate the "unintended consequences" of rampant greed, a theme that the film wears pretty obviously on its sleeve. The effects are pretty stunning, and often impressively lighted. Not all of them, but certainly enough to deserve SOME positive comment. I presume the point of this series is to be clever. But seems to me it's at the expense of somebody else's sincere labors. There are so many other films out there where no one cared, no one even half-tried, and those are the ones that deserve the glib derision. But, when all is said and done, to each his own.
@@Gappasaurus Why? Please elaborate. Thanks ;-) As a side note, Joel was a friend of mine, tho I haven't seen him in years. He had to admit that they should never have featured/made cheap fun of some of the films they showed, which he felt were actually classics of their kind,. But they had to keep producing shows and had to use what they could find in PD. But, if you're going to make jokes at the expense of others, at least spend the time to get your facts straight or the joke may be on you. Some people (especially those in the same business actually care about this stuff---even some of the real borderline productions, especially if the work was made by friends or associates, while the average person probably doesn't give a flying f. My comment is meant only for those who are interested in film history as a student or just a real hardcore fan. It doesn't (obviously) mean anything to anyone else.
I first saw this film when I was a kid, and BBC 2 (I think) were showing a series of Monster/Horror films. I have a soft spot for the movie, but for a very nerdy reason. When the reports first come through about disturbances off the Irish coast, the navy, scientists and jerks head out there to see what's going on. They ask the stereo-typed Irish fishermen what is going on, and the fishermen reply in Gaelic. The 'heroes' ask what was said, and they are told that what was said was, "We don't speak to Englishmen!" As an Irish/Gaelic speaker, I can confirm that this is exactly what is said - "Ní labhraimis le Sasannaigh!" does translate as just that. I was always quite pleased that the film makers, rather than just throwing in any sort of gobbledegook, took the time to not only find out what the correct line was, but actually get actors/extras who could pronounce the line correctly. It's a small point, I know, but it's why I have always had a soft spot for Gorgo.
Thanks for explaining they got the language right. I'm happy to learn they were careful to do so!
That's one of my favorite scenes in the movie!
This Was A good GIANT monster Movie, For 1961. For Me Its A Great Classic, And Interesting It"s From The U.K. Not Many Movies Like This Coming From That Country. Except For The Awesome Hammer Films.
My favorite non-Godzilla film, I've watched it many times. Hurray for Mama Gorgo! I'd like to see her ravage Miami.
YAY!!! YAHOO!!! GORGO was the first giant monster movie I saw on the big screen! It was winter and me and my sister wanted to see 101 DALMATIANS, but the theater was sold out for the evening's showings, so rather than driving home disappointed, my father took us to another movie theater that was showing the film on a double bill with VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA !! a fantastic night for me and sis !!!
(It took another year before GODZILLA arrived on tv in my area!! )
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When I was a child in 1961 this was the movie everyone wanted to see;
My favorite line. "Release the bay-bee." Love the way he says it. And gorgo doesn't "grab" me like Godzilla does? Grabs his what? 🐲
I saw this as a kid and I loved it. It wasn't as silly and unbelievable as Godzilla. As for the 2 guys being jerks, I think that's the point. It's a morality tale: this is what happens when you let greed dictate your actions.
The first Godzilla is bleak as hell, not that silly.
I dearly love the way you say, "let the bay-bee go!!!" cuts me up everytime. 😂😂😂
For me, the high point of Gorgo was the revelation that the two sailors had captured a baby and that the mother was much bigger. Unfortunately, that couldn't have been more than half way through the movie. The stock footage of military operations is kind of tedious, as I recall.
Gorgo is what you get when you take the human villain of the original Mothra and make him the protagonist. It's not a pretty sight.
As for my choice of city to get trampled under foot by a giant monster, as morbid as it is, I say should go to Amsterdam. The juxtaposition of people running from fear from the monster and people not noticing because their high is too great an opportunity to pass up.
Amsterdam, Copenhagen, wherever the movie "Reptilicus" is set... European capitals don't really show off a kaiju to best advantage.
@@patrickdrazen3574 To be fair, I don't think any city in the world could have made Reptilicus look good.
Cities on Gorgo's to-do list: Philadelphia; Detroit; Milwaukee; Atlanta; Las Vegas; Seattle; and Portland. New York City for extra credit.
I vote for Bakersfield, California. That city just annoys me.
That's a rampage I'D LOVE TO SEE.
I used to stand my cat up and "walk" him next to me to reenact the last scenes. Poor kitty.
This is my wife's favorite monster movie. Personally gorgo and the giant Behemoth are no comparison in terms of moving realistically compared to the beast from 20,000 fathoms which is a ray harryhausen creation. As for Australia ,well I was thinking they could have made a movie about a giant prehistoric kangaroo that came to life and pounced on Sydney and Melbourne. But then maybe Olivia Newton-John wouldn't have been born and then there would be no Grease and then there would be no....well you get the idea. Lol
I want to see San Diego get trashed by a giant monster. We have a famous bridge and a famous clock tower, just like London & Japan. We've already been attacked by killer tomatoes and a T-rex. Now it's time for something much bigger to lay waste to America's finest city. As for "Gorgo", I'll agree that it's not as emotional as the original Godzilla, despite how much it tries. But as a man-in-a-suit monster movie goes, it's very well done.
Spot on analysis, Robin. I once heard a Film Studies lecturer state that Gorgo was a parable about capitalism in post war Britain. Sigh. Really, it's just poor writing and plotting due to the producers messing with the ending. It would have been much more satisfying if the Government had just taken baby Gorgo back to the sea, and thrown the jerks to Mrs Gorgo .
Note that "Gorgo" was produced by brothers Frank and Maurice King, veterans of Hollywood's "Poverty Row". (You get a rather unflattering picture of them in "Trumbo"; when blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo approached them to make "The Brave One", which elevated the Kings and began Trumbo's climb out from under the blacklist.) "Gorgo" is 1961, years before kaiju monsters became child-friendly; nowadays it's a requirement.
Actually, Eugene Lourie wanted the city of Paris to suffer the onslaught of mother Gorgo but it was ruled out because Paris was farther inland. So, London was chosen.
It's a shame we never got Gorgo vs Konga
Baby Gorgo vs. Konga, yes, mama would've crushed K like a roach.
how about Gorgo vs. Geronimon sounds pretty awesome
I actually think that Gorgo was a pretty decent movie. As in The Day The Earth Stood Still, the little boy, Sean, is the only character who has any common sense. And the best part is when everyone finds out that Gorgo is only a baby. The rampage Gorgo's Mom goes on when she gets to London is cool. I love this movie. There, I said it!
A Towering Rampage of Hilarity From Dark Corners! A Real Pleasure As Always!
I'd like to see Detroit get Monster-Shambled, just to see if anyone can see the difference.
What's there left in Detroit to wreck ? Oh, I see : the Baphomet temple !
Actually, it was the death of the monster from "The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms" that made the director's daughter cry, not the death of the sea monster from "The Giant Behemoth".
I love it when a movie outrages Robin, LOL!
I wonder if Stanley Kubrick saw this movie and thought, "THIS is the guy I want for my big sci-fi epic!"
I do feel bad for the monster. She just wanted her baby back.
Love your channel! For me, the movie doesn't make me care either way about the two lead guys (although I see it as a cautionary tale about their bad decisions, not lauding them), but instead it makes me care about Gorgo! I love this movie, and oddly enough, am waiting on its original vintage one-sheet poster right now in the mail!
I don't think Godzilla was ever really evil.
One fine day a nice man named Gorilla Whale woke up -- because someone blew up his house.
He then swam to try to find a new home, and banged his head on a floating hard object with a bunch of screaming little human things. But hey, they had lots of fish. Yum yum.
He then arrives to some farm land. Lots of little human things. They didn't taste good. But the four legged cow things tasted awesome. Unfortunately, there was no place to sleep, because the land was filled with square patches of water and rice.
He walked north to find a cave, and saw two paths. It was dark. One path looked empty, the other path looked like it had more human things and giant weird rock houses. He tried to walk to the empty path, but then was electrocuted by some evil invisible spider webs. So, reluctantly, he walked through the human houses.
Lots of humans attacked him, so he blew fire on them.
Finally, he arrived in a giant bay, where there was a huge cave.
He went to sleep.
Then an evil human thing released something in the water that murdered the nice Gorilla Whale.
:( Godzilla, a tragedy :(
At the end of the day, we were the monsters all along.
A very fine retelling of the Classic Gojira from an environmentalist point of view. I quite enjoyed it!
Thanks for another hilarious video. Although I personally like Gorgo (mostly for the impressive visual effects of that time), it does have its flaws and Robin is great at highlighting them. My friends and I use to love poking fun at this film ourselves, especially the radio reporter who always seems to be right at the scene (even with debris falling all around him) and never gets hurt. Even at the end, he gives us a great lecture on the "smallness of man" compared to the might of Gorgo.
As for a city I would like to see get destroyed in a monster movie, that would be Miami, Florida. I have nothing against the city itself, it just seems like the perfect target for a monster rising out of the sea with all the big hotels and beaches. I don't think Miami has ever been attacked by any giant creature in movies that I can remember, so there is a first time for anything.
I'm from Florida, and, had many a great evening of partying along Miami beach's sidewalk bars and restaurants. Now that I think about it, I can't think of any giant monster film where Miami gets attacked. Or even small monsters, for that matter.
4:58 so did the exploiters of King Kong & those of "The Valley Of The Gwangi"
I remember Barrow in Furness bus depot being eaten by the chewits monster, a good TV advert from years ago.
You couldn't find a trailer for (the film of?) "Quatermass and the Pit" with a crowd fleeing and a voiceover saying "What pursues this terrified man", could you? It's one of the first clips I ever remember seeing, but the series is on youtube and this phrase doesn't appear. I would love to know if my memory is correct.
I think Lourie's daughter was upset when The Beast From 20 thousand fathoms died, not the Behemoth--more likely due to Harryhausen's having added so much 'character' to the Beast.
I saw in a documentary about this movie that on the way home from the premiere of Beast she got very upset that the Beast at the end and told him so. He replied that he promised to make a movie where the monster doesn't die. I think that it's lovely he kept his promise.
@@mariakelly1059 HAH! Great! Where did you see it, if you remember?
@@nickmitsialis It was on a Shout Factory DVD of MST3K's version of Gorgo, packaged as a greatest hits collection.
@@mariakelly1059 The misties generated a docco? That's kind of funny to know.
Thanks.
@@nickmitsialis The MST3's didn't make it. I just found it on RUclips. It's called Gorgo Documentary and it's on a channel called Groovy Flicks. Enjoy!
Why not Gorgo v Konga? I like your take, Let the baby go!
"The plot [...] requires you to care so much about the finances of [...] jackasses that you're willing to ignore the enormous loss of life incurred in their quest for personal gain."
I don't know - Jurassic Park did pretty well at the box office LOL
There was only about ten people on the island at the time of the movie's events, and only five deaths across the whole movie, one of which probably went entirely unnoticed.
Send a giant monster to Indianapolis because I got ripped off there.
I think because I had more sympathy to Gorgo and his mother than the two jerks, I still enjoy the film. I also enjoy its appearance on MST3K and your review here, but I'm an odd person.
Please Do a review about "Daleks - Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D." :)
Awesome video! Great production values.
"Scientifical authorities" ...I gotta remember that one.
That got me curious enough to look up "scientifical". Apparently, it IS a word, but it's archaic.
Mrs. Gorgo😂
Fun Fact: both actor William Sylvester and FX supervisor Tom Howard would be involved in Kubrick's 2001 (Howard sharing the FX Oscar win with Kubrick and Douglas Trumbull), and cinematographer F.A. Young would shortly after this film collaborate with David Lean starting with LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, his first Oscar win out of three (the others for Lean's DOCTOR ZHIVAGO and RYAN'S DAUGHTER).
Love this film!
This is actually my favorite monster movie, because the plot consists of a mother coming to rescue her child. I don't care that the humans are stupid (wanting to make money instead of caring who might die). That's how so many humans are in real life and other fantasy films (see Jurassic Park) that I wasn't bothered by it. I also loved that the small boy knew what would happen and was ignored... proof adults should listen to children more. Finally, I loved the music written for the film... one of the loveliest themes for a monster I've ever heard. This film has just been released on 4K with many extras. My copy arrived yesterday. I'm looking forward to seeing it on the big screen I've got here at home.
Let’s see in SPECTRE. Bond destroys an entire city block and nearly kills everyone in the Day of the Dead festival and that’s just the pretitles. Not much chance of the producers wanting to go back to making a “spy” film. Actually a busy poster might save you the expense of sitting through the film ... much like a Dark Corners review.
In 1961 the biggest known dinosaur was the brontosaurus, that was less that 80'. The brontosaurus never really existed. An interesting tidbit about Gorgo, which MST3K mocked, is there were no women in credited acting roles. There were a couple of women listed as stunt performers.
FINALLY! Someone points out that everything that happens in this movie was all Joe Rogan's and Sam Slade's (The two main characters) fault. Everyone always takes a shot at the little kid because that notion of having little kids in Monster Movies. But here's the thing, the kid was 100% right!
Just like the kid in the 1951 version of The Day The Earth Stood Still, who was the only character in the movie who had any common sense about Klaatu.
Actually, I've always thought this one was pretty good. Yes, it had its flaws, but as giant monsters tearing up cities go, this one was a real classic, and London was a highly entertaining setting as well. Yes, Gorgo should definitely have eaten or stepped on the two greedy jerks who stole her infant. We're agreed on that.
How about Grand Rapids, Michigan
Godzilla is Godzilla Gorgo is Gorgo both are great & iconic classic movies and should be treated with the same respect! Just one fan’s opinion.
This is the only Dark Corners film review of a film I've actually seen. 😆
My favorite character in this movie is the little boy Sean, who seems to have more common sense about the Gorgo situation than all of the film's adult characters put together!
I don't know, I think Sydney getting destroyed by a giant monster would be a good movie. I can imagine a big monster stomping across the Opera House and pulling down the Harbour Bridge could be impressive.
Also, I want Washington to be destroyed by a giant monster because Donald Trump is President of America right now. The monsters aren't allowed to go there once he is no longer president. Also, a monster can stomp across Moscow anytime because Putin doesn't seem to have any plans to go for a while.
Have the monster destroy maralago while little Donnie is there!
Didn't Sydney get the Kaiju treatment in Pacific Rim?
I loved it when the local fishermen were cursing out Joe and Sam in Gaelic!
Love your reviews of these old movies. Most of them I don't remember the titles, but do remember seeing them as a kid. Couldn't sit through them today but it's fun to go through summaries with your commentary.
MST3K did this movie a great justice.
Great episode.
They should called "Gorgo, Third of the Monsters"
How about letting Gorgo run amok in Ferguson, Mo? If the police are busy dealing with Gorgo they won't be able to assault unarmed citizens!
I thought your hero Eric Holder did an investigation into the Ferguson PD and the Michael Brown shooting? Oh yeah, that's right he did. Eric Holder found no wrong-doing of the police and said in his report that the hands up scenario never occured. Try again.....
@@michaelproctor8100 Well Eric was wrong.
@@mariakelly1059 Calling a black man wrong? You are such a racist....
Personally, I enjoyed it. Yes, it's nonsense, but so are giant monster movies generally. Besides, who doesn't want to see London destroyed? Incidentally, you may not be aware that a sequel (of sorts) was made a few years ago. An independently made short film called "Waiting For Gorgo". It was shown at the Festival of Fantastic Films a few years ago, and it was so well-received that it was shown again at the end of the festival. I don't know if it's available commercially, but it's well worth watching if you get the chance.
“Waiting for Gorgo”? Didn’t MST3K use that joke 20-something years ago?
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I rremember seeing a still from this in a horror movie book - remember those? It's partly in this clip, three men in a rowing boat with a giant claw above them....young me thought 'WOW, THIS MOVIE LOOKS AMAZING!'
Mrs. Gorgo has every right to wreck havock.
I would like to vote Norwich because I would like to see the Gorgo franchise cross-over with Alan Partridge.
Sunday, bloody sunday...
Gorge is my favorite Giant Monster movie. Like the original Frankenstein I was rooting for the monster. Now I want you to review It Came from the Bottom of the Sea. That film had a giant monster that was real, the Kraken has been discovered and the creatures motivation for attacking ships and people made sense.
1:47 Fun Fact: The actor playing the reporter at one time was married to Bond Girl Honor Blackman.
Are you guys going to do any more retrospectives on classics
Yes, we have written on for The Thing. should be edited soon.
Please do a review of machine gun Kelly 1958
Please do The Return of Godzilla.
I'm sure under the same scrutiny any Giant monster movie is going to sound ridiculouos , Godzilla being the exception...seriously? London's answer to Godzilla is kickass...love "Gorgo".
Correction: It's IRELAND'S answer to Godzilla.
I’d like to see the Gorgo family visit for Washington DC. Maybe they can drain the swamp of corrupting lobbyists, self-serving politicians, and feckless bureaucrats.
thanks
While I generally love British Sci-Fi, they spend more money on writing and characters than FX, they never seemed to understand Big Monster Movies. Gorgo was NO Godzilla. Thank you for the post.
Edinburgh since I live there. There was a comic where Godzilla did but I want a movie
Fresno, California. We're kind of flat & uninteresting, so a giant monster of some sort would liven things up. Only problem is, we have no major buildings or landmarks to be destroyed, so the monster would have to make do with cars & freeways and the local agriculture. We're near to Yosemite National Park, perhaps the monster could emerge from Half Dome which turns out to be an ancient egg! Realistically, however, San Francisco is ripe for a giant monster attack, by land or by sea, with lots of tourist attractions to flatten.
Admit it. Plenty of uses to see Big Ben crumble to the grind...
hmm didn't realise 1996 The Lost Worlds's Mommy T Rex rampage scene was inspired by this film :D
for me it would be Moscow or somewhere in the middle east, moscow would make it look more diverse in terms of buildings and setting.
As an Australian I should be personally offended by this, but as the Sydney Opera House didn't open until the early 1970s I have to admit that Gorgo demolishing a few lighthouses, and maybe having a go at the Sydney Harbour Bridge, might have been slim pickings. Still, it's a bit harsh......
After Gorgo's rampage London was changed forever and porn theaters came in to full the void, as seen in An American Werewolf in London.
My pick would be North Sentinel Island, but even Godzilla and other movie monsters aren't crazy enough to take on the North Sentinelese Islanders.
hey, one of the few dvds i own.
It's GOTTA be fun to put on a monster suit and smash up miniatures for a paycheque!
RRRRAAAAAARRRR!!!!! \ 👺/
As an evil, dark hearted Arizonan "2012" sated my desire to see Cali slide into the ocean so I'm good.
But we didn't! Ha-ha!
5:38 how 'bout Pyong-Yang, no civilians there.
Great
Great movie. I'd like to see Gorgo meet Godzilla. Gorgo is 392ft. tall so it would be fair fight.
You forgot to mention the scene of the 4-million volts loaded into the cables around baby Gorgo's pit, designed to kill mama Gorgo when she comes to rescue her progeny.
It's inspired by the final scene of "Quatermass Xperiment", aka ''The Creeping Unknown" (1955) with the incomparable Brian Donlevy as Pr. Quatermass the most dangerous mad scientist because of sanity.
We've already had gigantic grasshoppers attack Chicago in "The Beginning of the End", with rather uneven special effects. For now, I'd like to see gigantic critters attack Trump properties...
Actually I thought it was pretty fine for what it was. Lord knows I was more interested in the human element in this than most of the kaiju movies.
I watch this video when I need a hefty dose of snarky mockery, or those ol' reliable cutaways to film characters' lines taken out of context and made to seem like they're referring to the host's latest remark. :D
The largest dinosaurs were around 200 feet long and about 230 tons.
Meh... it's only London.
I kinda like this film aslo do shark ecsorcist
but I dislike the humans and there needs to bee a film where a monster destroys Scotland/a nessie film that's good
*Cleveland!* 😂
I use to be Scared of Gorgo when I was young. but not anymore
If a giant monster could go ahead and kick Schenectady, NY's ass, that would be great. Thanks.
I would like to see Gorgo or Godzilla rampage through Afghanistan while on the way to Iran.
The whole movie was pretty much recycled bits and pieces from other movies ; nothing original. They've destroyed New York at least three times , London twice , every city in Japan a whole bunch of times , San Francisco , Las Vegas , Chicago , LA twice that I know of , Rome and Seoul. In DESTROY ALL MONSTER they attacked New York ( make that four) , London , Moscow , Paris , Peking , Sydney ( finally got their turn ) and a trailer park in Arizona. Saint Louis would be great because you have the Gateway Arch to show how big the monster is.
I'm waiting for a movie where a monster destroys Milwaukee. What a dump!
Shouldn't it be: "No one tell HER where Madame Tussaud's is..." ? (04:06).... and "Stop it?? That's HIS destination...." (04:37). Hmmm. Gender issues? Still, good points on a silly movie I have loved all my life, but mainly I first saw it on the big screen when I was 10, and became obsessed with Big Ben. Not Gorgo, but Big Ben.
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This may seem a very American point of view but a larger than life and angry animal running around that wants to kill you almost all the time is not that uncommon in Australia and probably means a godzilla attack is more like a walk to the grocery store means a kaiju film wouldn't make sense cause if it really happened no one would care and would just say bugger off and it would be either gunned down or kangarooed or boomeranged to death in a matter of minutes so yea thats why they got passed up for England
Again the host has made a couple of errors. For instance, this film, under the title KURU ISLAND, was supposed to take place in Tokyo, as a co-production with Japanese producers, and not in Australia. Does it matter? Does anyone care? If we are here strictly for laughs, I'd guess not, and I'm just a spoil sport. Only a couple more thoughts: I understood the point of the characters was to help illustrate the "unintended consequences" of rampant greed, a theme that the film wears pretty obviously on its sleeve. The effects are pretty stunning, and often impressively lighted. Not all of them, but certainly enough to deserve SOME positive comment. I presume the point of this series is to be clever. But seems to me it's at the expense of somebody else's sincere labors. There are so many other films out there where no one cared, no one even half-tried, and those are the ones that deserve the glib derision. But, when all is said and done, to each his own.
Wow you must be a riot at MST3K watch parties 😄
@@Gappasaurus Why? Please elaborate. Thanks ;-) As a side note, Joel was a friend of mine, tho I haven't seen him in years. He had to admit that they should never have featured/made cheap fun of some of the films they showed, which he felt were actually classics of their kind,. But they had to keep producing shows and had to use what they could find in PD. But, if you're going to make jokes at the expense of others, at least spend the time to get your facts straight or the joke may be on you. Some people (especially those in the same business actually care about this stuff---even some of the real borderline productions, especially if the work was made by friends or associates, while the average person probably doesn't give a flying f. My comment is meant only for those who are interested in film history as a student or just a real hardcore fan. It doesn't (obviously) mean anything to anyone else.
Apparently,Eugene Louries daughter asked her Dad to do a film in which the Monster survived,as his previous offerings made her cry at the end.
YAH!! I wanna see Chicago, Illinois demolished! It has THE worst rush hour traffic in the country!!
please do horror at party beach