[Inspector Abberline]

I think this was my first Ray Harryhausen movie, I'm pretty sure this was shown on television one Saturday afternoon,(In the days when television would churn out something more interesting than, what ever they show now a days, I just realised I have no clue what they do show on terrestrial television on a Saturday any more)...Obviously then it was the Sinbad movies followed, and pretty much anything with his name on would peek my interest as a young lad...I mean its a genius idea, cowboys versus Dinosaur, all down by Rio Grande...James Franciscus is our likeable hero who is dragged into finding a new species of miniature horse, of course like most of these films, you have an eccentric scientist in the guise of Laurence Naismith as Professor Bromley..
What I love about Valley of the Gwangi is that its pretty much all set in the blazing sun light, and its kind of a neat idea seeing cowboys wrestle with dinosaurs, although The Beast of Hollow Mountain, beat them to it apparently,(although I've never seen the 1956 movie, but it does have a great poster)....As always Harryhausen work is stunning even today, from the miniature horse right up to the Tyrannosaurus Gwangi, who is still the most terrifying on screen dinosaur there is...The film has everything you could wish for in a monster flick, monster battles, monster rampages. Monsters eating people, in fact all that's missing was pickled onion monster munch....Also what a wonderful font on the title credits...