Up From The Depths Reviews | Gorgo (1961)
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- Опубликовано: 8 июл 2024
- A sea monster is captured and sold off to the circus in London.
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Released: March 29, 1961
Producer: Frank and Maurice King
Director: Eugène Lourié
Screenplay: Robert L. Richards and Daniel James
Music: Angelo Francesco Lavagnino
Starring:
Bill Travers as Captain Joe Ryan
William Sylvester as Sam Slade
Vincent Winter as Sean
Christopher Rhodes as McCartin
Joseph O'Conor as Professor Hendricks
Bruce Seton as Professor Flaherty
Martin Benson as Dorkin
Basil Dignam as Admiral Brooks
Barry Keegan as First Mate Harry
Dervis Ward as Bosun Mike
Gorgo portrayed by Mick Dillon
#Gorgo
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Fun fact, Eugene Lourie's daughter watched "The Giant Behemoth" and cried at the end when the monster was killed at the end. When work began on Gorgo he remembered that and made sure the monsters escaped at the end.
I think His daughter cried at the end of Beast From Twenty Thousand Fathoms; Kind of appropriate given how subdued the ending was. Rhedosaurus didn't ask to be revived but it was too big and dangerous to allow to live. I found the ending suitably somber.
It was Beast From 20,000 Fathoms that made her cry. His dramatic death was classic. Behemoth had no such ending .
Gorgo: The Kaiju version of Taken.
That’s really clever.
And they didn't need 17 cuts to show Mother Gorgo climbing over a fence. She just walked through it.
Momma Gorgo: “I have been waiting to come up to your world. You have my son. Please return him. When I come up, nothing on your world cannot and will not stop me. I’m coming for my son, wherever you are keeping him.”
Joe Ryan: “Nuts to that!”
Except Gorgo came before Taken. If anything Taken is the human version of Gorgo. :P
@@michaelmenei5403 Eugene Lourie wanted to have Gorgo destroy Paris, originally. But Paris was too far inland. So, London was chosen. Luc Besson probably saw Gorgo but decided to use humans instead.
Made in 1961?!? Damn! This movie looks like it’s made in the 1970s decade. By what I’m seeing, this film has some good visuals, suitmation, and presentation! Now I gotta see this
Gorgo was supposed to be released in the late 50’s but was held up because of a legal issue with the King Brothers. I recommend seeing the film Trumbo, with actor Bryan Cranston playing blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo and John Goodman as Herman King.
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It is worth seeing, Gorgo is the best monster thriller film of all time right behind or above Godzilla!!!!!
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"Good-bye England! You've been crushed by gaint lizards!"
"Oh, Dorkin is a person!"
Gorgo: I will look for you, I will find you, and I will *DESTROY YOUR CITY*
Give my baby back!
i'm glad they haven't tried a remake of this. it would just be so full of gore. to satisfy the more ''modern'' times. i see this as a landmark movie that stands alone. i have always loved Gorgo, it never got the true respect it deserved, and that alone is very sad.
Gorgo is like if Gorosaurs and Baragon had a baby xD Loved this movie as a child!
Gorgo is an interesting movie. Rather than just feeling derivative or generic, a lot of the movie feels exactly like the other giant monster movies that came before it (King Kong, Godzilla, 20m Miles to Earth, even Varan etc.), but what original ideas the movie does have to call it own were way, way ahead of the curve, and have gone to become farily recognisable traits of the genre in their own right. Makes you wonder if there's some really great version that was left on the cutting room floor.
Gorgo! I loved this movie as a kid!
These creatures needs to be in the Monsterverse
@@rickyrackey7930 If licensed hell yea
@@PeterIsTheSenate They should rename Ogra to not be confused with Orga. Maybe Drago
I wasn't allowed to watch it, as a child
The visuals are so impressive for a 1960s movie, far better and more serious than any other kaiju movie of the era.
Definitely some of the best "crowd hysteria" scenes in any kaiju movie.
This was always a favorite. The kid always kinda grated on me but the monster stuff was really stellar for suitmation fans.
I sort of think The Lost World: Jurassic Park pays a nod to this (the T-Rex adult/child parts at the end).
Being around the same age, I identified with the boy in Gorgo. Another favorite from my childhood!
Anecdote : The design of Gorgo was made by none other than Steve Ditko, who is the co-creator of Spider-Man and creator of characters like Question, Doctor Strange or the controversial Mr.A. It went to the point that Ditko, working with Charlton Comic at the time, worked on a Gorgo comic book, wich was released a few days before the movie, the comic was a total success in the United Kingdom along with the movie. The series went into hiatus after a full year. In "Ditko Monsters : GORGO", I also learned that the director is the man who made Creature from 20 000 Fathoms. His daughter called him "evil" when he decided to kill off the monster in this movie, so when he got the task of making Gorgo, he went the other way around, making a sympathetic creature that creates empathy among viewers.
I always thought the Baby Godzilla scene from Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla II, where Godzilla meets his young and goes to the sea with him, was inspired by the ending of Gorgo.
Add it to the list of Giant Monsters that is worthy of a Reboot. "Gorgo" is a nice design.
I actually said they should add Gorgo to the Monsterverse and have Godzilla meets his English cousin.
well, a toy company will be releasing a novel that will be a sequel to it
I love the mother protecting its baby plotline. I wonder why it is not seen in any other giant monster movie as it is commonly known animal behaviour.
A few months later “Mothra” used a similar plot line (Mothra destroying Tokyo trying to rescue the kidknapped Shobijin), and 1967’s “Gappa” used nearly the EXACT same plotline as Gorgo 😅
Godzilla vs. MechaGodzilla 1993 had a plot line where Godzilla searches for baby Godzilla.
We need more Gorgo, they should put him in the monsterverse as a homage.
It would be a good easter egg.
Ah, another MST3K classic, and actually a rather fine movie in its own right.
When I was a little kid, this film was always listed as a melodrama. Not sci-fi. Not monster movie. TV Guide always played up the storyline of the "momma" monster coming to rescue her offspring. They always recommended it for family viewing. That is why it apparently was always treated with more respect than other monster movies at that Time.
Absolutely 💯 correct!
This is what I've been waiting for. Gorgo is a stone cold banger.
You mean a great film, because it is 😊
"Well Mike I don't know about you, I personally enjoyed Gorgo, but it gave some of my assistants seizures." God that MST3K episode of Gorgo was such a classic. XD
I’m 23 and when I was in my early elementary school years I found this movie. I loved Godzilla and mainly fighting as a kid. I remember watching this movie and being like damn that’s all it took at the start, then was like maybe it will escape or something but even then kinda underwhelming. Then, the big reveal. The Big mama. And boy was she big and I just remember that being one of my earliest memories of having patience and not everything being as it seems or as plain cut as it seems. Opened my eyes to other monster movies where I had only watched Godzilla and Godzilla monsters movies (i.e. Rogan, king ghidorah, mothra, etc)
Amazing movie. Could use a better cast but now that I think of it, you are right the kid was the saving grace for the cast in terms of his role. Again, I was a young kid so I was never wanting to see human drama or kiddy stuff I wanted to see fighting damnit but this kid really kept me in it and I also related to him in his sympathy.
10/10 would watch again.
Vincent Winter was the kid (Sean) in the picture, he was a great child actor and died when he was only 50, so sad !!!!!
In the Bestiary for the Adventures Dark and Deep role-playing game, there's actually a Gorgosaurus that was directly inspired by this film. It even has the little ear flaps in the illustration.
Yeah I think this is better than the Giant Behemoth though that one did have some nice sense of mystery and tension as they try to figure out what is happening. This one...damn I honestly think it has the best sense of panic, fear and chaos as a monster tears down a city. I mean the people are just going wild in the streets and falling out stairs, jumping from buildings. Just a horrible sense of pandemonium. Plus the monsters have great looks and roars.
Worthy of note. The stunt work. Have you ever seen such great stunts in a monster movie? Outstanding.
In the scene where dozens of people are trying to get down the stairs into the tunnel, one guy was pushed right up against a cement obstacle. I was actually concerned, because it looked like he was being crushed for real. There's also the shot of the guy with the sandwich board falling down and a few people run right over him.
@@CaptainCanuck1975 The scene with the married couple jumping out the window is also noteworthy. I agree with you about the man yelling for people to repent getting knocked down and trampled. That scene demonstrates just how effective it was.
It's a fantastic film and should have won Best Special Effects of 1961, what was the academy thinking? There were some great films that year, but Gorgo should have been more noteworthy than this!!!!!
And here is another kaiju that I want to see in Legendary's Monsterverse.
If they base it on the Steve Ditko comics, they wouldn't have to ay royalties, as those are public domain.
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Think maybe a review is called for Omni? (Hint-hint, wink-wink) 😁 I just recently discovered a publisher on Amazon that’s doing trade reprints of all of Charlton’s titles, including Gorgo, Konga & Reptilicasaurus 😳
I remember watching this film when I was a kid, great movie. I watched it again just a couple of years ago, and it still holds up as a very enjoyable film to watch. Thanks for the nostalgia trip :)
There should definitely be a remake of this classic kaiju film!
They would ruin it for sure
I love Gorgo. Yes it's pretty standard by todays comparison,but the action/miniature work is great, the twist that the Gorgo we've been following the entire time is only the baby and oh man you gotta love those full size animatronics! Just like Kong 76. Def an underated British kaiju flick. Great review as always
Agree but kong '76 was an awful movie. Kong 2005 was a masterpiece & so was Gorgo !!
Always loved this one! Those red eyes and twitching ears and those giant garden spade hands make for a memorable beast!
Gorgo's one of the best monster movies out there. Amazing effects for the time and a great monster to boot. Better than most kaiju films from the 60s
I remember seeing Gorgo on Cable TV when young as a kid on some weekend night while my parents where asleep. As a Godzilla Fan, I enjoyed the look and feel. I'll never forget the actual hints of horror and fear in the streets. IT helped grow my affinity for film in general at a young age.
"Hey Tom and Mike for what it's worth my heart will go on."
🎵 “I crush you, you get crushed...” 🎶
I get it!
"Gorgo" is a fine movie and very much a product reflecting the values of the time it was made in. The script posits from early on that Man is in charge and can exploit what he chooses on the planet and when he chooses to do so. Then in Act III, (much like the present climate crisis that's spiraling out of control), Nature comes along and says, "Wrong, hold my beer!".
There is no climate crisis you 🐱
4:29 “I’m not wearing any pants! No pants baby!!”
Mike can one repent if one has not yet pented?
My grandma had taped this off of a local public station and I would watch it almost every time I visited. I knew who Godzilla was, but I was Gorgo that made fall in love with Kaiju films.
I've been meaning to watch Gorgo for such a long time. It looks like an interesting little film
Coming back after buying it. Lol
It was a great picture and it's still quite impressive!!!!!
I absolutely loved this film as a kid ! Now , any chance of “Shin Gorgo”?
Having never actually seen Gorgo yet always wanting to, I never would have expected it to have the exact same plot as Jaws 3.
But Gorgo has much better special effects.
@@CaptainCanuck1975 Reptilicus has better special effects than Jaws 3.
got a real soft spot for this movie. saw it on vhs when I was pretty young and loved it, still do to this day. it's a fun movie and one of the few (if not only) western produced kaiju movie to give the japanese a run for their money.
I was reading about this on Wikizilla when this popped up lol
I always had a soft spot for this movie. I saw it when I was like 5 and it's been a favorite ever since.
I honestly think this would have been a better basis for the 1998 American Godzilla than well, Godzilla.
No it's not a perfect fit, but a giant lizard swimming to a city to have its children matches this hell of a lot better than Godzilla in my opinion.
makes perfect sense, but then they wouldn't have been able to cash out on the "Godzilla" moniker
I remember seeing Gorgo on television back in the 70’s. I immediately fell in love with the film because it was a solid monster movie. My cousin had the the Gorgo comic book, but I couldn’t have it.
Eugene Lourie saw Godzilla and thought that Godzilla’s movements were stilted and not good enough. By comparison, Gorgo moved a lot better than Godzilla on screen. Lourie originally wanted to film it in Paris, France, but Paris was too far inland, so London was chosen.
The musical score by Angelo Lavagnino was great. You can get the score on the Monstrous Movie Music label. A recording company that re-records the scores of classic monster movies. The Gorgo score is pretty close to how it is heard in the film. You can find it at www.mmmrecordings.com.
Thank you for that recommendation and link.
1:22 - "behold, the infant... And the outfant"
“...according to my UNNECESSARILY large book” 😄
@@Gappasaurus ah! A person of culture!
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Well, I guess this review had to happen eventually. I'd never heard of Gorgo, and from the name I immediately thought it was a Godzilla ripoff, but then I talked to people who'd seen the movie and they really seemed to have liked it. Gorgo herself isn't the most incredible design, but I do like how they tried to make her a sort of aquatic dinosaur with those fins. I gave up trying to find this movie a long time ago, but now I might renew the search. Maybe I'll see this monster as the underrated classic everyone says it is.
You can buy it at Best Buy as a Blu-ray or dvd on the site. If you see Varan don't buy it, its a bad film reel copy on a dvd.
@@MsHood1986 Never looked there, I'll have to check it out
@@scado5679 I think it’s also available on Amazon prime
You can watch it on RUclips ruclips.net/video/CYsr3-PRse8/видео.html RUclips has a lot of old Kaiju movies.
@@chadatchison145 That's really helpful, thank you so much!
I’ve watched this movie so many times!
@4:25 I dunno I think that choppy editing is a boon at least for the city destruction. It really helps with that sense of chaos I praised in another comment.
GORGO IS ONE AMAZING MOVIE... can't belive it hasn't been remade... thank you hollywood
And it's a great MST3K episode too! It's one of the few that I've seen before I saw it on MST3K.
I Saw the black scorpion before I saw the MST3K episode
One of my personal favorite creature-features.
I have fond memories of this one
First seen it as a little boy and still love it today it’s a no green screen on steroids classic that will live on and be enjoyed for still decades to come.
Im really hoping you follow this up with Gappa, and then maybe a video comaring the 2 films.
I was probably too young to watch this when it aired on TV. I recall being a little scared at (and awed by) the twist.
My very first kaiju film ever.
I'd never heard of this until they featured it on MST3K, and it's definetely better than the usual fare they watched on that show. The movie's lack of any female characters (except Gorgo herself) is kinda odd considering the shoehorned-in romantic subplots that these movies are known for, but in general it's a pretty good watch, with or without Mike and the bots.
Oh a female was added in the novelization I hear. How? The adult daughter of that village guy.
I was lucky enough to see this on the big screen as a kid - during a "kiddee matinee" in 1970. My name being Sean, and being a huge giant monster fan, of course I identified with the kid. - And I'm happy the movie never got bogged down with any kind of human-based soap opera, as so many contemporary movies do.
This one just looks and feels like a Toho-produced Kaiju-Film that happens to be set in the UK.
Saw this in its original release at age 9 and loved it and it was a mega hit with kids and so Japan followed it with King Kong VS Godzilla which was another hit a year later. As a result, I was nightly destroying NYC, London, and Tokyo in bedroom with the Aurora Model kit King Kong and Godzilla. Had to use a model T-Rex with taped invest flaps for Forgot. I miss the suitmation and practical effects. Their destruction was more realistic and all the effects people had gone thru WW2.
Good review. I loved this with all it's flaws. The suits are poor but the final rampage in London is really well done
This is a true british classic
Like in a certain show I've Been Waiting For Gorgo.
“... and here he is, AAAAAAAHHHHHHHGGGGGHHHHH!!!!” 😆
Gorgo look a lot like Titanosaur from (Terror of MechaGodzilla) 😳
Even sound similar too.
Yes, well, it's really the other way around, as I'm sure you understand. (ToM came out 14 years later)
@@predabot__6778 yah, it mean Toho took some idea 😶
Which mean Gorgo was a gud concept 😊
This, Ladies and Gentlemen, is What i Call a Movie That is The Perfect Film For Kids and Families!
Something I loved of this was the final shot of returning to the water which I think predates godzilla doing it. And I loved it because like gojira's ending message is if we screw up again it'll be worse. Yes we defeated gojira with the oxygen destroyer but we can't make another one so if there's ever another godzilla from our nuclear meddling we're screwed. And with gargo it's even more hopeless because we never stopped it. It just left. If it comes back, especially from us messing with the sea, and we'd be screwed again. To me the movie is enjoyable for it's setting, nice monster design, and doing some great things for the time period.
You finally reviewed the Godzilla from my home country.
Also did you know that the mother Gorgo is actually called Ogra (Not to be confused with Orga.)
Yet she has those huge claws LIKE Orga wound up having...I wonder if there was 'inspiration'.
@@nickmitsialis interesting how in the review they mention that this might have been the inspiration for the Gamera series as well.
@@Sargebri That I dont' get, but Ogra/ORGA nobody seems to get.
@@nickmitsialis I think it was the kid in the movie. He wanted baby Gorgo set free.
@@Sargebri Sean was a 'Kenny'?
We'd want him to be killed off, if that were true!The Kid characters are notoriously annoying in much of the Gamera series.
I remember a line around the block at the State Theater to see this - I was 9 and I loved it.
I actually saw this on Creature Features before I had ever heard of Godzilla.
FINALLY!!! I've been waiting for this since I saw your first videos
I dont recall seeing this but now i really want to. Some of those tokusatsu set pieces look awesomely well done.
The effects are definitely above-average for a western-produced suitmation film 👍🏼
YES! One of my fav non-Japanese monster movies.
Another British Kaiju film!
Gorgo reminds us all that every nation should make its own kaiju film, whether that be Japan, the US, the UK, South Korea, hell, even countries such as India and Pakistan, who make plenty of fantasy films but have yet to make kaiju films. Kaiju can tell someone a lot about how they view the fear of the unknown and how they view their countries' monolithic power. Gorgo, as you said, is a veiled allegory for colonialism; the theft of beings and objects from the Global South to display in an imperialist nation-state. it really is a great film for showing how the Empire's grasp on the Global South was failing in the 1960's.
Woah that suitmation is amazing for just 1961
3:12 This looks a *lot* like a shot from Gamera 3. I wonder if the makers of Gamera were paying tribute to Gorgo, or was it just great minds thinking alike?
When you talk about the lack of polish, I'm reminded of a late shot where one of the monsters' shadows is clearly visible on the back wall of the set. Got a laugh out of that because it was so plainly obvious.
I liked the final scene, with the city burning while the radio broadcast plays in the background. It had a World War II Battle of Britain feel.
Trivia: Mother Gorgo's name is *Ogra.*
Ever notice how the doom prophet gets trampled by the mob and not Gorgo's mom?
There are some things a self-respecting monster won't squish.
“Which one of these guys is Dorkin?” 😄
"I just love to watch people dork!"
"Frank King, Maurice King administration"
"Did Frank come back and put that little dig under his brother's name?"
The little bastard kills this movie for me. Everyone complains about the little bastard in Gamera the Invincible ignoring the fatalities his beloved kaiju causes, but this little bastard is absolutely delighted by the sight of people dying in Mama Gorgo's rampage.
I love this Monsters design a giant sea dinosaur with arm claws like boxing gloves and Red glowing eyes and reptilian scales now that’s what I call a monster I remember seeing this movie when I was 9 years old !
Except for embarrassing atrocities like Konga and Reptilicus , and endless juvenile - aimed product from Japan , MGM's 1961 Gorgo pretty much signaled the end of the giant - monster - on - the - loose genre that had continued unabated since 1953.
Although many of the genre's plot conventions were recycled for Gorgo , Eugene Lourie , the director and co - writer of the original story , can be forgiven , as he also directed and helped write The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms , the film that began the giant monster assault . Gorgo did offer two significant variations on the formula . First , the beast turns out to be a beastlet , a mere 65 - feet tall , and when it is captured , its angry mother comes to the rescue . Secondly , the monsters do not die in the end , as Mama Gorgo frees her child and they return to their home in the sea .
The idea for the happy ending came to Lourie years earlier when his young daughter tearfully watched The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms perish and the director vowed to one day make a film where the monster survives . Gorgo's technical effects were often overly - ambitious for the budget there was an interminable amount of military stock footage added by the producers , and Lourie's story was rewritten , resulting in an unfocused screenplay full of missed opportunities , but despite the negatives , Gorgo remains a richly - rewarding viewing experience . Even with more death and destruction than a dozen monster movies before it , it is a deeply - touching film that served as a fitting and satisfying end to the cycle .
Have not seen this movie since I was a kid, remember really enjoying it so I should get around to giving it a rewatch
Good review. You hit pretty much all the buttons. Gorgo; what a great name...
Gorgo has a titanosaurus roar! 😂
Love this movie!!!
nice work please don't forget them!
Gorgo: The kaiju version of the Beast From 2,000 Fathoms
Eugene Laurie produced all 3 : Beast, Behemoth & Gorgo !
So, true.
I would say this is one of the greatest monster movies of all time. Man and his petty dominance proved futile.
Agree 1000% , never get tired watching it !!
Yes I saw this Movie back in 1961 I was 11
I love Gorgo.
"Hello, I'm Diana Rigg. Inspired by the guy in today's movie who looks kinda like Samuel Beckett, we present to you a tragic comedy in one act: Waiting for Gorgo. Thank you, won't we?"
I always felt that the painfully long standing ovation at the end of that sketch meant the episode must have been running a little short.
I have a very strong feeling that Gorgo was a primary inspiration, design wise, for Titanosaurus in Terror Of MechaGodzilla
Hoping for a Pulgasari review!
See this is another monster movie that legendary needs to get its claws on!
The parent coming to find her/his offspring plot line has been replicated multiple times after gorgo released
Including movie like grappa the triphibian monster,puss in boots(since the giant mother goose comes to save her chick) and the lost world Jurassic park just to show that the movie was pretty influential.
Yay!
I watch this movie last yr on RUclips still good
Great movie one of the best!!!!!!!!!
Gorgo! What happens when Godzilla gets drunk and wakes up next to a Gremlin.
Gorgo is Godzilla’s ex on Monster Island Buddies 😄 Although i think technically i think he meant Ogra, since “Gorgo” (her son, Godzilla’s step-son, grows up to be Zilla 😆)
Just seen this movie and it is so good for it's something else for it's time!!! Everything he said in this video is spot on and I highly recommend you check Gorgo out if you love monster movies!!