Jun 25, 2008
Trailer 148 of 695
Even today, 60 years later, the money-pit jokes in this picture still resonate. Cary Grant's attempt to build a house in the country leads to predictable disaster. Remade as The MONEY PIT and ARE WE DONE YET?, but this one's the best.
"If you like telepathic Pterodactyls this one's for you!" How can one resist a commentary like that? LOL.
Can't say I actually "like" this movie but I can tolerate it. It makes as much sense as many non-drug-related films that go a bit off the rails for purely "artistic" reasons, so simply pegging it as a "drug movie" only of interest in its time is inaccurate...
Inside mother earth; Caroline Monroe and Godzilla's country cousins. Who knew? Always thought LAND THAT TIME FORGOT managed to look way classier than it's budgetary constraints (no mean feat...
The one original touch: a caveman monster with veins that go ACROSS his nostrils (look fast and you can see him in the trailer). Umm, other than that...
I have a great fondness for this daft film. I remember running around my grandad's garden with a hankerchief I found tied around my hand because I saw Doug McClure do it in either this or another Conner film promting my grandad to ask of I'd hurt myself...
"Phoned it in so intensely, you can almost hear the dial tones" That line is better than anything in this film..
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