The third (and least) of the three successive Jack H. Harris/Irwin S. Yeaworth Jr. collaborations I have watched is, unfortunately, marred by an overly juvenile approach and a completely anonymous cast. Nuclear bomb tests in a Mexican village unearth a Brontosaurus, a Tyrannousaurus Rex and even a Neanderthal man; the latter is befriended by an obnoxious kid while, at the same time, being targeted by the villain (the boy's sadistic guardian) for exploitation purposes as a potentially lucrative sideshow attraction! There is the expected havoc by the dinosaurs, of course, though none of it is remotely memorable, I am sorry to say. Apparently, Steve McQueen was originally intended to star in this as well but, owing to how difficult he proved to be during the shooting of THE BLOB (1958), he was replaced by the bland Ward Ramsey. For what it is worth, the highlight of this film are not the cut-rate special effects but the amusing sequence depicting the cavemen at bay in the modern-day settings of a kitchen and living room! Useless bit of trivia: all three of these Harris-Yeaworth movies that I watched amusingly end {sic} with a question mark next to "The End" title!
Review of Dinosaurus!
