Joe Dante on “Valley of the Dragons”
Feb 8, 2012
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During the 50s and 60s the boxoffice success of such big budget Jules Verne adaptations as 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Journey to the Center of the Earth led to a number of low rent Verne ripoffs, few more impoverished than this ridiculous quickie from the Columbia Pictures B-unit, an early pioneer in recycling. Sets, props, costumes and stock footage from other movies mark it as one of the least original sci fi pics of the era. In Monstascope! (The definitive 1970 Czech version of the Verne story, by the brilliant Karel Zemen, can be accessed is its entirety here: On The Comet
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