King Dinosaur

King Dinosaur
Directed by	Bert I. Gordon
Produced by	Bert I. Gordon Al Zimbalist (Executive Producer)
Written by	Bert I. Gordon Tom Gries Al Zimbalist
Narrated by	Marvin Miller
Starring	William Bryant Wanda Curtis
Music by	Louis Palange Gene Garf (uncredited)
Cinematography	Gordon Avil
Editing by	Jack Cornall
Running time	63 min.
Country	USA
Language	English
Budget	$15,000 (estimated)

King Dinosaur is a 1955 science fiction film starring William Bryant and Wanda Curtis with narration by Marvin Miller. This film was featured on season 2 of Mystery Science Theater 3000.

Plot

Four astronauts in 1960 travel to a planet called Nova that has just entered Earth's solar system. The crew begins to study the planet to see if it's able to withstand a possible Earth colony. After first discovering normal Earth animals such as a kinkajou and an alligator, they soon encounter and battle giant insects, an enormous snake, prehistoric mammals, dinosaurs, and the titular character, King Dinosaur, a Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Cast

• William Bryant — Dr. Ralph Martin
• Wanda Curtis — Dr. Patricia Bennett
• Douglas Henderson — Dr. Richard Gordon
• Patti Gallagher — Nora Pierce
• Marvin Miller — Narrator

Production

The film was directed over a three-day period by Bert I. Gordon and was Gordon's debut. The scene of the attacking Mastodon were stock footage recycled from the film One Million BC. There were only four actors in this film, the rest of the band and soldiers were just military stock footage, the atomic bomb explosions were also military stock footage. The scene where the atom bomb explodes is stock footage from an atom bomb test.

External links

• King Dinosaur at the Internet Movie Database
• King Dinosaur at AllRovi