Description: A volcanic eruption in the North Atlantic brings to the surface a 65-foot prehistoric monster. Two treasure divers capture the creature and take him to London where he is put on display in a circus. A scientist is thoughtful enough to point out that the sailors' bonanza is only an infant, and that a full-grown specimen would be over 200 feet in height. Sure enough, Gorgo's mama comes thundering ashore, reclaims her offspring and heads back to sea — but not before she trashes a generous portion of London. The special effects in GORGO, provided by Tom Howard — two-time Academy Award winner, are truly admirable. The monster is quite ferocious — except when he wiggles his ears. Released by MGM in 1961. DVD Bonus: Digitally Remastered, Behind the Scenes Short| Photo Gallery, Scene Selection, Animated Menus, Original Theatrical Trailer|,Widescreen/Letterboxed| DVD-9| Dolby Digital 5.1
worse then "Plan 9 from Outer Space" As far as I'm concerned this was the worst movie of all time. The movie that usualy lays claim to the title of worst movie of all time ("Plan 9 from Outer Space") was at least fun to laugh at. This is a boring groaner from the get go.
This starts out with a storyline that is completely forgotten a few minutes in. This is just a lame swipe of other monster movies. The monster is poorly done and the editing is so poor it's a laugh when the explosions don't match the reactions of the monster. Furthermore continuous repetitions of the same falling rocks is just lazy. Even the ending is a lame attempt to somehow appear poigniant and put monsters in some sort of human light.
There is only about 1 minute of footage in this movie that is actualy worth watching; the scene where the monster destroys the clock tower is very well done...in fact exceptionaly well done, and it immediately stands out...then it just goes back to the same lazy repetative garbage. I hadn't seen the film before so when I chose this movie for a group of us to watch... I didn't know what I had chosen. It was so lame we didn't even finish watching it!!! We weren't in a rush to go, it was just a boring movie. And I appologised to the group afterward. They were kind, realizing I hadn't seen it before. Even the the worst of the rediculous Japanese monster movies are more fun to watch then this lame British bulldog.
I eventualy remembered seeing the movie as a kid around 1970 and I remember even then saying it was a "Bad movie". Give me "Gammara" any day over this trogdolite.
Edited Print, Defective Audio The first thing you should know about VCI's "Gorgo-Widescreen Destruction Edition" is that it is missing about 2 or 3 minutes of footage, confirmed by the fact that its running time has been reduced to 73 minutes, although the box lists the full 76 minute version. The first problem you will encounter when watching the films is during Angelo Lavagnino's excellent opening score when there seems to be an echo effect, as if the stereo tracks where out of sync with each other, resulting in the music becoming a garbled mess. Such audio problems occur throughout the feature. Strangely, there seems to have been some additional sound effects added over the original soundtrack. Except for the missing footage, the MGM Technicolor print used for the transfer is in excellent condidtion. As a bonus there is a "behnd the scenes" documentary that, although it runs only about 10 minutes, it is very authoritative and informative. The label on the container is an excellent reproduction of MGM's original poster art. This is one of the worst DVD releases I have yet encounted. It makes me wonder if anyone at VCI bothered to insure that a complete print was being used and that picture and sound are transfered properly. Someone at the company should have at least watched one of the discs before they started shipping them out. Save your money and wait for a better release.
Good film, Bad print! This is one of those films I saw as a child that stuck with me for a long time. There was some great people behind the camera on this film, Oscar winning Director of Photography Freddie Young.(Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, Ryans Daugther.) Also oscar winning photographic effects man Tom Howard. A cast that works, including one of the first roles for John Wood,(Wargames, Ladyhawke.) as the man in the street saying "The End Is Near".Great music too. I just wish that someone would find a good print of this film. The one on this DVD is of the old TV print. Also I wish that the company that put it out the DVD left the audio track alone. The addition of sound effects to the original soundtrack during the ramage in London was very anoying! Who's idea was that! Over all I still enjoyed this film.
picture restored but sound destroyed! I saw Gorgo when it was first released in the movies in 1960 and I'm probably the movie's biggest fan. This 'Destruction Edition' release by VCI is the first serious print of the movie to be sold. The bonfire scene on Nara Island where Gorgo makes his first appearance is restored to visual perfection. It looks like it was actually printed from the negative as do many other scenes in this release. It seems like all the criticism heaped on VCI for releasing the atrocious previous version with its near black scenes paid off. The fans of Gorgo , which are many, deserved and got this restoration. Unfortunately the glee I felt initially with seeing Gorgo finally restored was short lived when the most bizarre thing occurred. I began to notice the soundtrack was cheaply tampered with in an attempt to guess 'enhance it'. Now mind you I have seen probably ten different video releases of Gorgo all of which had awful print quality but the movie's soundtrack was never ruined or doctored in any way. Now finally we have a decent restoration of the print and what happens some genius at VCI instead of just enhancing the volume of Gorgo which has one of the greatest soundtracks in monster movie history , they decide instead to do the unthinkable and tamper with it by adding the tinny lifeless roar used in the DVD screensaver and drowning out the masterful original monster sounds in the movie. They also add echoes and assorted sirens and machine gun fire. So you hear machine guns in a scene where three guys are shooting with rifles. These baffling alterations undo much of the great visual restoration VCI made an admirable effort to attain and I have to say ruin the outcome making many key scenes seem to fall out of synch. It's an annoying distraction that sabotages the robust power and flow the movie's sound is known for. A classic is a a classic because of it's special unique qualities that the public loves about them, the best we can do is preserve them not change them. Not to mention the violations of artistic ethics and integrity. Imagine changing King Kong's roar or Fay Wray's scream. Oh well,maybe this will set up the release of a VCI corrected version. We'll buy it.
godzilla goes to london When a dinosaur named Gorgo is captured after nearly sinking a ship. It is taken to london to be displayed as side show attraction at a local circus. Unfortunately shortly after Gorgo arrival scientist discover discover that the creature named Gorgo that is in between 60 and 80 feet tall is only and infant and not fully grown. His mother a full grown female gorgo about 200 feet tall with twice the supernatural strength of the baby.Purses after the humans that captured her offspring destroying the port in ireland from which the monster dwelt in before it was captured. It makes its way to London were it literally stars reducing the city to rubal. Can the city be saved by some miraculous miracle. Find out in the thrilling, spingtingling but heartwarming and unexpected twisting conclusion. This movie should be fine for kids ages 9 and up due to mild scifi violence. Like that was present in Gorjira such as footage of the buildinging and military wechicles being destroyed an occasional explosions and people being set on fire but mostly more buildings being destroyed . Gorgo is one of the beast godzilla similar like movies of its time. If you like this I also recommend on DVD Repticilcus and Antigone for those inbetween the ages of 9 and. For the bigger kids 13 and up who want something darker some recommendations of mine are Reptillian, Godzilla Final War, and Zarkor the Invader (which got a pg-13 rating for some reason I don't no why maybe because of destuction scenes I recommend Zarkoor the invador even though it was considered to be one of the worst 90's american monster movie's by some of the critics but I don't listen to critics usually because they over specualate alot. If you like godzilla, mothra, rodan, the giant claw or anything similar you will love this.
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