| The Valley of Gwangi | |
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| Directed by | Jim O'Connolly |
| Written by | William Bast Julian More Willis H. O'Brien |
| Produced by | Charles H. Schneer Ray Harryhausen (associate producer) |
| Starring | James Franciscus Gila Golan Richard Carlson Laurence Naismith Freda Jackson Gustavo Rojo |
| Cinematography | Erwin Hillier |
| Edited by | Henry Richardson Selwyn Petterson |
| Music by | Jerome Moross |
Production company | Charles H. Schneer Productions |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros.-Seven Arts |
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Running time | 96 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Valley of Gwangi is a 1969 American fantasy Western film produced by Charles H. Schneer and Ray Harryhausen, directed by Jim O'Connolly, written by William Bast,[1] and starring James Franciscus, Richard Carlson, and Gila Golan.[2]
Creature stop-motion effects were by Harryhausen, the last dinosaur-themed film that he animated. He had inherited the film project from his mentor Willis O'Brien, responsible for the effects in the original King Kong (1933). O'Brien had planned to make The Valley of Gwangi decades earlier but died in 1962 before it could be realized. Producer Charles Scheer called it "probably the least of the movies Ray and I made together."[3]
- ^ "The Valley of Gwangi". BFI. Archived from the original on July 11, 2012.
- ^ VALLEY OF THE GWANGI, The Monthly Film Bulletin; London Vol. 36, Iss. 420, (January 1, 1969): 272.
- ^ Swires, p. 67.