I confess!
I liked this move when I first saw it.
(I was seven in 1955.)
As I recall, an asteroid had passed near the earth and made some stir in the news before this movie appeared. I suspected that was the inspiration of the plot.
(OK so THIS plot was NOT inspired in any way, shape or form. Waddaya gonna do, sue a seven year old kid?)
To a seven year old, an iguana propped up on its hind legs did a passable impersonation of a tyrannosaurus.
When I saw the movie again on MST3K, well, . . . . hey, I was seven and it was cool to me in the 1950s.
(Updt 19 Aug 2014: I found a copy of the 1957 World Book Annual Supplement (events of 1956) at the local book fair (the family 1955 World Book set w. supplements up to the 1960s was abandoned in a move in 1996). There it was: news of the near-earth asteroid Geographos discovered in 1951 named in 1956, predicted to pass 4 million miles from Earth in 1969. But barely 5 by 2 kilometers.)
I liked this move when I first saw it.
(I was seven in 1955.)
As I recall, an asteroid had passed near the earth and made some stir in the news before this movie appeared. I suspected that was the inspiration of the plot.
(OK so THIS plot was NOT inspired in any way, shape or form. Waddaya gonna do, sue a seven year old kid?)
To a seven year old, an iguana propped up on its hind legs did a passable impersonation of a tyrannosaurus.
When I saw the movie again on MST3K, well, . . . . hey, I was seven and it was cool to me in the 1950s.
(Updt 19 Aug 2014: I found a copy of the 1957 World Book Annual Supplement (events of 1956) at the local book fair (the family 1955 World Book set w. supplements up to the 1960s was abandoned in a move in 1996). There it was: news of the near-earth asteroid Geographos discovered in 1951 named in 1956, predicted to pass 4 million miles from Earth in 1969. But barely 5 by 2 kilometers.)