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"The Last Dinosaur", the title for a particular late-70s science-fiction flick which was apparently (I'm guessing by a few details in the credits and in the film) a cooperation of American and Japanese film companies. This film was obviously made on an incredibly low budget, which you can judge by many aspects of it shown on the screen. "The Last Dinosaur" is preposterous, has campy effects, redone sound effects that still retain aspects of their original versions, and with the exception of Richard Boone, completely wooden acting. It is a mindless film, and yet, somehow, there is something classic and enjoyable about it. It's a film that cannot be forgotten by those who have seen it. And whether they loved it or hated it, they remember it for being so cheap. Why is it enjoyable, then? I myself don't really know the answer. There's just some things about some films like this that somehow in some way work out.

The title of the film isn't completely accurate, according to the storyline. The so called "last dinosaur" of the film is a humanoid tyrannosaurus rex who sounds uncannily like Godzilla, and is portrayed by a man in a rubber suit. But we see lots of other creatures on screen. We see pterosaurs (which technically aren't dinosaurs, but are still prehistoric creatures), a giant reptilian mistaken to be a ceratopsian. And then we see an actual ceratopsian, a triceratops. So evidently, this T-rex is not alone in his prehistoric world.

The special effects on the film are simply laughable. We are humored by the dinosaurs more than we are frightened by them. There are several instances when the rubber heads of the creature get pushed in and then bounce back out into perfect form again, totally impossible in real life, considering that heads are made of skulls. There is a point in the film when a triceratops falls over onto its side and although we were more than obvious to the fact that it was made by two men in a heavy suit, standing one behind the other, it becomes more obvious in the mentioned scene. First, the guy in the front falls, yet the second guy apparently wasn't timing himself, for the back legs were still standing for a while before they finally realized they had to fall over too.

Casting and acting was wooden, not counting Richard Boone, who was popular as a cinema villain. Here, he is kind of an anti-hero. A womanizer, hunter, tough guy. Yet, even Boone doesn't really save the cast. It's not his acting that was the problem, it was the lines he was given to say. "That's not an alligator, it's a crocodile, and yet I shot it too.", "You ding-dong!", "a great scientific mind was killed by a beast with a brain the size of a dried pea!", and so on and so forth. The other actors were simply horrible at their jobs, maybe excepting the dark-skinned actor who didn't have any dialogue to say. But those people dressed up as a cavemen were perhaps the most hilarious part of the film. Not only being totally unnecessary, but not unexpected plot points, they made me laugh as I watched them walk slowly, swaying their arms from side to side with their mouths hanging open. A lot of characters were also totally unintelligent. Such as a press conference scene, where reporters did not ask enough questions. No logical questions. They didn't even ridicule the idea of a live dinosaur, as they do in most sci-fi flicks.

While "The Last Dinosaur" is totally ludicrous and lacking in intelligence, it is somehow entertaining. Once again, I'll state that I don't know why I enjoyed it. Maybe I just like old cheap monster movies. This is cheaper than any of the old late-60s and 70s Godzilla films in all regards. But whatever, the case, "The Last Dinosaur" was an okay 70s monster movie. It will meet people halfway in terms of their outlooks upon the film. But everybody will describe it as cheap.

Richard Boone plays billionaire Masten Thrust, an oil tycoon and big game hunter who leads a scientific expedition to explore a lost land in a dormant volcano under the polar ice cap. Joining him are scientists played by Joan Van Ark and Steven Keats, as well as a renowned Japanese scientist who doesn't last very long...seems that a T-Rex is out to get them, and it will prove to be the biggest challenge of Thrust's career.

Reasonably entertaining yarn is fun for kids, but also has themes of obsession and tragedy that will appeal to adults. Sure, compared to the "Jurassic Park" films the F/X here are primitive, but at the time, were impressive, and hold up OK. Not especially original, but does have a fitting end. On DVD from Warner Archive collection.

Ok, this is low budget stuff. yes the t-rex is ludicrous. But I still like this movie. Luckily it does seem to get better as it goes along. I love boone anyway, and he is at his screaming, impatient best here. It is still an entertaining flick ,and special effects not withstanding, it is still a pretty engaging movie. if you want a good laugh and some decent Boone to kill 90 minutes with, this is acceptable. Van Ark's luscious figure doesn't hurt the eyes either.

Stupidly beautiful. This movie epitomizes the 'so bad it's good' genre of films.

The only two talents in it are Richard Boone and Joan van Ark, and only Boone is any good. It's kind of sad that the man who rose to fame as Paladin should wind up in this ugly pile of celluloid. While he turns in a fantastic performance, I couldn't help but feel that he so outclassed all his fellow actors in this piece that he shouldn't even have been there.

The effects in this film are laughable, but fun. The idea of a dinosaur being buried in the wall of a cave and suddenly coming to life is B-movie gold. When the 'triceratops' gets killed, watch how it falls. It's clear that the stunt performer in the FRONT of the costume knows the timing best. He falls to the ground, well before the back half of the dinosaur follows suit.

Speaking of 'suits', there is nothing good to say about the purple tyrannosaur, in this flick. It seems to have some kind of stealth technology, since Bunta (reputed to be the best tracker in the world) twice fails to notice it until it's within biting range of him. I don't know how all the prints are, but in the version I own, the Tyranno's roar contains Godzilla's trademark bellow.

This is loads of fun, to watch, if you like bad movies. I love them, and especially bad monster movies, so I consider this the gem of my collection. If bad movies are your thing, definitely get this one.

i was 9 when i first saw this on TV. on a Friday night. i remember the full page ad in the TV guide with the picture of the Rex. amazing how some things stick in your mind after 30 years. Anyway if your a kid who likes monster movies this one is entertaining enough especially with boone and Keats raging at each other. Special effects are no harryhausen but its worth the hour and a half if you find it somewhere on late night TV. Haven't seen it in a few years for some reason these classics fade from cable TV. If you do catch it on late night don't be too critical just grab some snacks and enjoy it. it might be cheesy but i thought it was a lot better than the kong remake that came out in the theaters a year before.

Now I'm here to tell you that "The Last Dinosaur" is the "cream of the crap" when it comes to hilarious, cheap, ridiculous, monster movies. Not even the reigning champ, "Mighty Peking Man" can compare to this wonder of wondrous trash. A certain beer commercial has the "most interesting man in the world", however this film has Richard Boone, playing Masten Thrust, who's dinosaur hunting exploits certainly qualify him as at least the second most interesting man in the world. Throw in a rubber suited T-Rex , beer can polar borers, Japanese cave men, a basketball player for a tracker, and it goes on and on. This should be banned at "bad movie festivals" as unfair competition. - MERK

The same year that George Lucas and his team developed groundbreaking special effects to bring audiences bizarre alien creatures and dramatic space battles in Star Wars, this US/Japanese co-production settled for far less advanced techniques to bring its dinosaurs to life, making it an embarrassingly clunky, yet still rather charming addition to the Lost World genre. Rivalling The Land That Time Forgot (1974) for worst movie dinosaurs of the decade, The Last Dinosaur features Tokusatsu-style men-in-rubber-suit monsters that are wholly unconvincing, but which will undoubtedly hold much appeal for fans of all things kaiju (the film's T-Rex even sounds like Godzilla).

Richard Boone stars as Masten Thrust, the wealthiest man in the world (but still unable to hire a decent graphic designer to make his company a decent logo), who leads an expedition to a lost world in the polar region, where he hopes to find a living Tyrannosaurus Rex. Joining him on the journey into the unknown are geologist Chuck Wade (Steven Keats), scientist Dr. Kawamoto (Tetsu Nakamura), photographer Francesca Banks (Joan Van Ark) and brave Masai tracker Bunta (Luther Rackley). After navigating their way to the prehistoric land in a laser borer craft, the team are attacked by a tribe of savage cavemen and face danger from a T-Rex that steals their transport and stomps their camp.

Entertaining for its sheer silliness, The Last Dinosaur features unrealistic miniatures, a laughably bad Pteranodon that endlessly circles the sky, and a triceratops that somehow conceals itself in a rock face to launch a surprise attack on the T-Rex. Other dumb moments include Francesca unknowingly standing on the back of a giant turtle, the T-rex stealthily sneaking up on its victims unheard, Masten ordering Bunta to find 200 yards of tough vine (that's 600ft, or 182 metres, but the ever resourceful Bunta comes through), the T-Rex being yanked off its feet by a tumbling boulder (attached to the dinosaur by that tough vine!), the speedy construction of a massive medieval-style catapult (I'm still not sure where that axe came from), and Chuck and Francesca miraculously transporting the steel (so presumably extremely heavy) borer over land to re-launch it in a lake.

5/10 - it's silly, it's stupid, it's technically inept, but it's also quite fun as a result.

The Last Dinosaur was one of those "out of nowhere" movie-of-the-week films in the 1970's that was pretty exciting for the time especially to fans of Japanese Tokusatsu films. Originally slated for a theatrical release (around when the Dino King Kong was out in the previous December) it was suddenly pulled and made into a Friday Night ABC Movie of The Week. Rankin Bass-who were no strangers to Japanese co-productions were the guns behind this production, co-produced with Tsuburaya Productions of Japan-the people who brought us Ultraman in various forms. Starring mostly an American cast including the late Richard Boone, Joan Van Ark and the late Steven Keats, it told the tale of a prehistoric pocket of time in what was a superheated volcanic caldera somewhere at the frozen arctic circle, containing dinosaurs. It plays a lot like the films The Land Unknown(1956) and The Land That Time Forgot(1975) in feel and pace. Sure the dinosaurs were guys in suits(A Triceratops with front knees!) but they were filmed in such a way, the music and score was so well done, and the cast did a fine job that this didn't matter much to many of us brought up on Godzilla. The film has a lot of class to it, from the opening score by Nancy Wilson "The Last Dinosaur" to the overall "big" feeling of the film-the locations at hot springs in Northern Japan were excellent and lush- and the undeniable feeling of Kaiju Eiga to it. There are some amazing set pieces-the T-Rex's "bone yard" and a tracking shot that takes us deep into the jungle to see the T-Rex eat a giant fish from a stream. Tsuburaya's FX people did their job in style here and aside from a few dodgy matte shots, they do their job well. This film is considered the best 1970's "kaiju" film from Japan, even over the five Godzilla films made during that decade. Rankin Bass did several other co-productions with Tsuburaya providing the creatures or miniatures- The Bermuda Depths(1978) and The Ivory Ape(1980)-but neither measured up to the epic look of this film.

When Richard Boone's egotistical great white hunter (aptly named Maston Thrust) is introduced to Nancy Wilson's soulful opening theme song, I initially thought the film's title was a dramatic metaphor for Boone's character, an anachronism in an environmentally conscious world seeking to protect the majestic beasts he so callously discards. And whilst the double meaning persists throughout the picture, patience pays off, and after a somewhat vague start, Boone and his intrepid crew venture off to a subterranean eco-system where living dinosaurs and neanderthal man have been mysteriously preserved deep underground.

Van Ark plays the feisty Pulitzer prize winning photo journalist who tags along to document the much anticipated discovery, Keats is the uptight shuttle captain, and former NBA player Rackley (who narrowly missed out on a championship ring with the Knicks before being traded early in the '72/'73 season) plays 'Bunta' the mute harpooner/servant complete with native garb who Boone describes as being highly articulate and also a rampant polygamist possessing 100 wives no less.

The special effects consist of the usual men-in-monster suits fighting one another a-la 'Ultraman' or 'Godzilla', close-ups of elaborate miniatures and sets, and dual screen projection juxtaposing the actors in front of the giant marauding dinosaurs. The array of specimens created might appear amateurish by today's standards, but was quite entertaining contemporaneously.

Mild sexual tension emerges amid the crew's desperate attempts to survive, leading to some cracker dialogue between Keats and Van Ark after the latter takes umbrage at being forced to become a domestic housekeeper as the men hunt for food ('why don't you just shut-up!' yells Keats as if to a nagging wife to which Van Ark responds defiantly 'why don't you just make me!'). What follows is touching - literally - and an emasculated Richard Boone discovers his tail-chasing salad days are coming to an ignominious end.

Well-paced, nicely photographed and scored (although the brass cues are somewhat overused) with some genuinely moving moments, there's a lot for an adolescent audience to enjoy (including a mud-covered Joan Van Ark) in this neo-classical adventure which effectively brings the Japanese monster genre into Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's lost world.

What can I say that hasn't already been said?? Lowbudget, silly, cheesy, ridiculous special effects, wooden acting - I could go on.

But I will just say these 3 things:

1) this film would make Ed Wood proud.

2) Proof that Hollywood hasn't had an original idea in decades. The Lost Worod did it better.

3) This film is proof-positive that drug use among Hollywood writers, producers, etc. In the 1970's was rampant.

4) Either Richard Boone was desperate for work, or he was blackmailed into doing this.

Don't waste your time with this. I'm thoroughly convinced that this kind of rubbish will lower your IQ. Watcher beware.

Well, I haven't seen this since it was originally aired in '77...so my comments are based on something I saw 23 years ago. But I remember, and my brothers remember, it was pretty good. And the rock-bouncing-off-T-Rex's-head thing that is mentioned-that was Cool! We liked that! Ditto the being drug down the hill by the boulder scene. This was fast paced, tongue in cheek, exciting-we enjoyed it.

What can I say? Maybe its terrible, maybe it's bad Godzilla/Gammera level-I donno. But at the time, we had a blast.

So-a 1977 rec. here....

**1/2 outta ****

Another piece of the Cinema Fantastique, the American-Japanese joint venture in this bold production, starting for the casting, the already older Richard Boone lent his large background as a great Tycoon and tough guy, Joan Van Ark a dared and beauty journalist didn't convincing at all, Steven Keats has an average performance only, the monsters coming from Japanese's school, something alike Godzilla standards, so fake as three-dollars bill, stunts covered by a rubber costumers, when the T-Rex was hit by the catapult's stone is easy perceives that T-Rex's head was made by rubber and a overlong tail, anyway a careless production, the fight between Triceratops and Tyrannosaurus Rex is enough acceptable, at last, the props as the Polar Borer's miniature is quite different from large one, also how two tired persons rolling it from a remote cave to the river is too much laughable, the music score is misplaced, soft songs mixing with something weird, a trash picture which pleased me, is enough funny a fine entertainment, however a low profile production!!

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First watch: 2015 / How many: 2 / Source: DVD-R / Rating: 6.5

The only good thing about this movie is Richard Boone as Maston Thrust. Yes, that's his name. Everything else sucks, while I like rubber suit monsters as much as the next guy but the dinosaurs in this look really bad. The same guys that did this made Godzilla, what happened? But by far the biggest problem is the tone, the movie is too silly to be taken seriously because of dinosaurs, but it tries to have a message behind it so you can't really call it THAT silly. Also, the acting (with the exception of Richard Boone) are really bad. Don't watch this, please.

It's a quirky mix of nostalgia and sheer campiness that's hard to come by these days. Set partly in St. Louis, the movie tells the story of a wild team of explorers on a mission to capture a living dinosaur. What really stands out are the charming scenes shot around the city, especially at the iconic Gateway Arch. Sure, the special effects are a bit dated, and the dialogue can be unintentionally hilarious, but there's something wonderfully entertaining about it. The cast has great chemistry, which keeps you engaged, even while they're wrestling with a rubber dinosaur that looks like it was plucked from a carnival. Plus, the retro vibe of St. Louis in the '70s adds an extra layer of charm, like a little time capsule you can't help but love.

I'd like to unsee this movie. I'm a fan of Have Gun Will Travel, excellent TV Western. But Boone was a product of his generation and this seventies sci Fi film is an example of why heroes die when you finally meet them. He is the same character as he was in the 50 s, but this translates awfully. He's incredibly sexist in a modern society/culture, and even racist in a patronizing way that would have even pissed off Paladin back then! The dinos are rubber suits and the dialogue is entertainingly bad. I would advise not watching this if you have a soft heart for Paladin - the Have Gun / Will Travel days. Joan Van Ark does the best with the crappy dialogue and action.. All the other actors just seem kind of freaked out! Terrible, but possibly entertaining for some.

This movie is kind of good. It seem that they used the Tyrannosaurus Rex like a blown up balloon, just like Godzilla, just maybe back in those 60-70's days, scientist haven't got enough info. on all sorts of dinosaurs. Back in those time scientist still making dinosaur, so I guess this movie was base on a Tyrannosaurus Rex movements back in the 60-70's. There even a part where a giant rock, fired by someone at the Tyrannosaurus Rex, it damage the Tyrannosaurus Rex and it was knock out for a little while. At the end, the Tyrannosaurus Rex went back to search for food. There is something wrong in the movie as well, like a rifle, how can one rifle kill a Tyrannosaurus Rex, when it could be 1,000-5,000 stronger than we are. If this film going to make a remake, I suggest make it more good and excited, because watching a old movie seems like to have a remake of it, if lucky.

This one is just impossible to rate. I liked it; but I don't know why.

The dinosaur effects work is mostly terrible, and Tsuburaya should be ashamed of that T-Rex; although the man-in-a-suit Triceratops is ambitious and interesting, and the charge of the primitive mammal is beautifully done.

So why did they put those big, puppy-dog eyes on that T-Rex?

The overall story is above average for a 70s made-for-TV. I really liked Richard Boone as the world's wealthiest man. He was playing a kind of cross between Hugh Heffner (in later years) and Teddy Roosevelt! The writing actually manages a rather poignant touch at the film's close. It was an unexpected ending.

Of course I had never heard about this 1977 movie titled "The Last Dinosaur" before sitting down to watch it here in 2024. Granted, I wasn't really expecting a lot from the movie, given the fact that it was a movie made in 1977 about some dinosaur, so I wasn't really expecting the effects to be stellar. But still, since I had never seen the movie before, of course I opted to give it a fair chance.

The storyline in the movie was adequate. It was an archetypical journey-to-a-forgotten-lands-ruled-by-dinosaurs type of movie, so if you enjoy those plots, then you will most likely also enjoy "The Last Dinosaur".

I was not familiar with a single actor or actress on the cast list. But the acting performances were fair, taking into consideration the type of movie that it was.

The dinosaurs in the movie were pretty terrible to look at, as they were obviously pretty bad rubber suits. And I wonder why they sometimes sounded like Godzilla. It was just hilarious to witness. But I am sure that back in 1977 then the effects were actually fair, though "Star Wars: A New Hope" was also from 1977 and had far superior effects.

If you enjoy exploration adventures with prehistoric dinosaurs, give "The Last Dinosaur" a chance.

I wasn't overly impressed with the movie, but then again I had next to no expectations for it. It was watchable, but hardly a movie that I will ever return to watch a second time.

My rating of directors Alexander Grasshoff and Tsugunobu Kotani's 1977 movie "The Last Dinosaur" lands on a five out of ten stars.