Valley of the Dragons
Valley of the Dragons (released in UK as Prehistoric Valley) is a black and white 1961 American science fiction film loosely based on Jules Verne's 1877 novel Off on a Comet (aka Hector Servadac) and heavily dependent on stock footage from the movies One Million B.C., King Dinosaur, Cat-Women of the Moon and Rodan. Director Edward Bernds says the film was originally built around stock footage from One Million B.C.
Plot
Two men preparing for a duel in 1881 Algiers, Irishman Michael Denning and Frenchman Hector Servadac, are swept from the face of the Earth by a passing comet and find themselves on another world with cavemen and prehistoric animals. They try to find a way back to Earth.
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| author | Edward Bernds |
|---|---|
| director | Edward Bernds |
| editor | Edwin H. Bryant |
| genre | historical science fiction |
| keywords | algiers another world avalanche caveman comet dinosaur duel fight mammoth pass prehistoric animal river seven years |
| musicBy | Ruby Raksin |
| producer | Al Zimbalist Byron Roberts |
| productionCompany | Zimbalist-Roberts-Bernds Productions |
| publisher | Columbia Pictures |
| theme | extraterrestrial life |