The Last Dinosaur (1977) on Netflix
A lost valley lies beneath the polar ice cap, home to dinosaurs and prehistoric humans. Billionaire big-game hunter Masten Thrust Jr. is recruited to lead a team there.
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Plot summary
Masten Thrust Jr. heads Thrust Inc., an oil company that drills beneath the polar caps with a laser rig called the Polar Borer. After one expedition, only geologist Chuck Wade comes back, reporting that the drill broke through the ice into a valley warmed by a volcano, and that a Tyrannosaurus rex killed the rest of the crew. Masten decides to see the creature for himself. He takes Wade, Maasai tracker Bunta, Dr. Kawamoto and Frankie Banks, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer picked by the press pool. Masten first refuses to bring Frankie, and she changes his mind by seducing him. Reaching the valley aboard the Borer, the group sees Pteranodons, rafts ashore and narrowly avoids being trampled by a Uintatherium. They set up camp.
Cast
- Masumi Sekiyaas Hazel
- Carl Hansenas Barney
- Nancy Magsigas Thrust's Girl on Plane
- Vanessa Cristinaas Reporter
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Last Dinosaur (1977)
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- William Overgard pitched ABC a television film about a hunter who travels back in time to kill a dinosaur. The network turned it down in favour of a rock musical remake of King Kong, and only went back to him when that project collapsed.
- Rather than stop motion or puppets, the dinosaurs are men in suits, Godzilla style, and the sound department borrowed Godzilla's own roar and mixed it into the Tyrannosaurus. The Triceratops and the Uintatherium were two performers in a pantomime-horse rig.
- Tsuburaya Productions built the Tyrannosaurus suit and put Toru Kawai inside it, the performer who had worn the Godzilla suit in Zone Fighter and Terror of Mechagodzilla. The suit was later recycled as the monster Ururu in the series Dinosaur War Izenborg.
