It’s hard to believe some of them were made less than 20 years before the special effects of Jurassic Park changed the game for dinosaur (and other) movies, but most still look pretty good to me, perhaps largely, but not entirely, because I’m looking at them through the lens of nostalgia. Here are the dinosaur films that were my main “go-tos” whenever I happened to notice they were on TV as a youngster in the ’70s.
Let’s get into the movies: My Three Favorite Old-School Dinosaur Movies Here I am rambling on about dinosaurs as if I were 5 years old again. I appreciated seeing films featuring dinosaurs that looked like, and were maybe even named in the story, like the ones I was reading about in my beloved dino books, maybe because it enhanced my childhood fantasies of wanting to see one of these beasts in real life … These are also movies I liked because they had representations (or attempted representations, based on what was known about them at the time of the film’s production) of actual creatures while I also loved monster movies featuring the dinosaur-like Godzilla and the fictional “Rhedosaurus” of The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms (1953), I knew even then that they weren’t “real” dinosaurs. rex, Brontosaurus, Stegosaurus and Pteranodon in King Kong (1933), and even that quick-but-shocking appearance of the Brontosaurusin the “Odyssey of Flight 33” episode of The Twilight Zone- but I’m going to focus on movies in which dinosaurs were the main attraction. I’m sure I’ll get into some of the dino books and TV shows I enjoyed back then in future posts, but here I want to revisit the movies featuring dinosaurs I most enjoyed - usually over and over and over again, whenever I happened to notice they were on TV, either as part of some creature-feature program, or simply one of the morning or afternoon movies that local TV channels used to air regularly.ĭinosaurs and related prehistoric creatures feature at least in bit parts in many films that I loved then and still love now, and I always got excited to see them in even cameo appearances - like the T. Starting at about age 5 in the middle of the ’70s, when I wasn’t reading books about dinosaurs or helping my kindergarten teacher correctly pronounce some of their names or rambling on about them to anyone in my vicinity or imagining my own stories about these long-extinct creatures that fascinated me so much, I was watching dino movies and shows on TV.
Even a cheesy-looking scene like this one from 1974’s The Land That Time Forgot remains charmingly endearing to me.
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