Planet of Dinosaurs (1977) on Netflix
The spaceship Odyssey suffers engine failure and crashes on an unknown planet. Captain Lee Norsythe and his crew find dinosaurs; Lee wants to wait for rescue while engineer Jim wants to fight.
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Plot summary
The spaceship Odyssey suffers engine failure and crash-lands on an uncharted planet. Captain Lee Norsythe and his crew, including engineer Jim, nurse Charlotte, navigator Chuck, and communications officer Cindy, find a world that resembles Earth but shows no sign of civilization. They soon encounter dinosaurs and realize the planet is millions of years behind their own. Lee decides they should climb to a high plateau and build a defensive stockade, hoping a rescue ship will find them. Jim disagrees, believing they are stranded forever and should start fighting the creatures. While scouting and gathering supplies, the crew faces several dangerous animals, and tensions grow over whether to wait or take the offensive.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Planet of Dinosaurs (1977)
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- Almost the whole budget went into the stop-motion dinosaurs, so every actor had to sign partial deferments on their contracts, and at least one actress, Derna Wylde, claims she never received the balance she was owed.
- The low budget showed in the props: the "fermented berry juice" the crew drinks in the film was actually grape Kool-Aid, which tasted "like liquid cardboard."
- Among the film's stop-motion dinosaurs was a model that paid homage to Ray Harryhausen's Rhedosaurus from The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms.
- The film was shot in the Vasquez Rocks area of California's desert, in an area previously used to film several episodes of Star Trek.
