I feel denied that I did not get to see this film as a kid but I guess it did not make it to our town's Saturday matinee offering. I remember seeing the Alamo, Hatari, Lawrence of Arabia and Eighty Days Around the World in Grade I. Heck I even remembering seeing 20,000 Leagues at the Drive-In when I was three. So I am sure I would have recalled this "classic". Although I doubt I would have been impressed with the made up dinosaurs - the brontosaurus is more convincing than the T-Rex but where is the Triceratops?I can even explain how a Jurasic creature can be found with a Cretacaous critter - they were just entombed at different times by the same process. The Neanderthal fellow not so much although he is pretty convincing. The scene with the mirror is great.Now I don't recall what I saw last month never mind last year (the hard drive is full). That is why IMDB is helpful - if I gave it a rating then I saw it. But I can rewatch it again - reruns don't bother me anymore.

How well I remember this film Dinosaurus from seeing it in the theaters way back when I was 13 years old. I liked the special effects in creating the two dinosaurs and the climax is a very exciting one still. Of course now I can spot some of the ludicrousness of the story.The location is a small Caribbean Island where a group of construction workers are dredging a harbor to make it a deep water port. Their dynamiting has unleashed a cold underground river and two dinosaurs, a tyrannosaurus and a brontosaurus are released from being cryogenically frozen for a million years or so. As is true in a flock of other science fiction films they thaw out and lightning strikes them and they come alive like Frankenstein's monster.Of course they're kind of hungry and the brontosaurus has a nice tropical rain forest to feast on. But T-Rex is a flesh eater and there's lots of people flesh around as well.Unknown to everyone else a caveman also was washed ashore and he thawed out as well. He was found by Fred Engelberg who has to be one of the stupidest villains ever on record. In the absence of the governor he's in charge. I'm assuming the island is an American possession, the rest of the natives have Spanish accents both white and black, but Engelberg for reasons I can't figure out has a French accent. He wants his caveman to make a profit off of and even with a raging T-Rex around he's going to capture that caveman. As the natives of the island would say, Que Pendejo.The climax involves the lead actor and construction boss Ward Ramsey dueling with Tyrannosaurus using a steam shovel as a weapon. That has stuck with me since childhood and it's very excitingly staged.Dinosaurus is still a suspenseful and exciting science fiction film to watch with its no name cast and nice special effects for their time.

Dinosaurus! (1960) ** 1/2 (out of 4)A construction crew on an island are doing some underwater explosions when the latest blast brings up a couple frozen dinosaurs. Pretty soon the two beasts thaw out and go on a rampage but what the adults don't know at first is that the lonely kid on the island has befriended a caveman who also got out of the freezer. Producer Jack H. Harris and director Yeaworth previously worked on THE BLOB and THE 4D MAN, two other classics from this era where you didn't have to be 100% serious in tone to make a worthwhile movie. DINOSAURUS! should have and could have been so much better but the finished product is still quite good even if you have to scratch your head at a few of the things that happen. The strangest thing is that it appears as if you're watching two different movies because on one hand you've got a pretty straight-forward dinosaur-on-the-rampage flick but then you get a weird mix of satire around the caveman. The stuff with the caveman is quite weird because we get a rather long sequence where he enters a house and is constantly getting confused by the items in there. In a comic bit we see him eat wax fruit, get into a fight with his image that he sees in a mirror and the strangest bit is when he puts on a dress. On their own these scenes are mildly entertaining but seen in the context of the film they seem out of place. There's a long subplot dealing with the lonely child and his abusive "owner" but this really doesn't add much to the film. The dinosaurs really look fake but they're good enough to keep the film moving. It's obvious these are Ray Harryhausen wannabes but we get a couple nice battle scenes including a fight at the end between a T-rex and a construction vehicle. The performances are pretty much what you'd expect in a film like this but Ward Ramsey makes for a good lead. DINOSAURUS! isn't the best rampage film out there but if you're a fan of the genre then it's serviceable enough to warrant one viewing.

Would you believe if you were told that two of the most memorable scenes of the worldly famous Jurassic Park franchise are direct copies taken from a mostly obscure, B-class movie shot decades before Michael Crichton conceived his blockbuster, genetic dinos? A T-Rex crushing a land rover under its foot in J.P. I; and a dinosaur killing another by twisting and breaking its neck in J.P. III. The land rover scene is almost a replica of the original; in the second case, the main differences in the remake are that the T-Rex is now the victim instead of the culprit, and its neck is snapped broken, in contrast with the slow twist the T-Rex applied to kill its opponent, a friendly brontosaurus. As the old saying goes, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery...But this is just one reason I chose to review Dinosaurus! It was my first dinosaur movie in the big screen, and I left the theater in ecstasy. In fact, the second one was Jurassic Park, twenty years plus later, and the feeling was about the same. I watched all other dino-movies in-between on TV.That was a time when the only book published in my country about the wonder-beasts was a great little book authored by Roy Chapman Andrews. I was blessed to have a set of slides of prehistoric animals. TV was black-and-white. So that movie did leave an impression! Dinosaurus! fed my imagination and my soul for a very long period, so I'm very fond of it, and that's why Í chose to review the title.On the technical side, one should compare it to other of the same technological batch. Yes, it would still be a B- or C-movie in what regards to dino-mation, but sufficiently passable for an eight-years old kid who hadn't seen anything alike, even less superior to it. All in all, it "delivered".About the story, who cares??!! I was seeing gigantic, in-color dinosaurs at the cinema! It was good enough to make the story flow. Take a look and watch for yourself...