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Bill Travers, Bruce Seton, Christopher Rhodes

When a 65-foot reptilian monster emerges from the Irish Sea after an underwater volcanic eruption, salvage vessel operators Joe (Bill Travers) and Sam (William Sylvester) capture the creature and brin...( read more  read more... )g it to London. Hoping to make some money, they put the beast on display as a circus sideshow. But Gorgo's enormous mother will do anything to get her baby back -- even if she has to destroy the entire city.

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Unrated, 1 hr. 16 min.

Directed by: Eugène Lourié

Release Date: January 1, 1961

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DVD Release Date: September 26, 2000

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  • jfvirey
    August 7, 2009
    jfvirey
    As the movie poster says, "Gorgo" is "like nothing you've ever seen before." It's not like "King Kong", because it stars Godzilla. And it's not like "Godzilla" either, because it has the same story as "King Kong". So it's really a different sort of movie.

    I'm glad I saw this f...( read more)ilm a second time, even though it's not worth seeing even once, because I'd felt really bad for not liking it in the early eighties. I was a teenager then, and I'd read a review in my favorite movie magazine which praised it as a profound and sensitive monster movie, a hidden gem of British cinema, a classic. I found it boring and ridiculous, and it made me think there was something wrong with me. Maybe I was just one of those shallow kids who can only appreciate the latest trendy movie and are unable to relate to the better, less commercial, earlier stuff.

    So it felt almost like a personal vindication to watch this again at 42, with the MST3K commentary, and to realise that I was right and the grown up who wrote the magazine article was wrong: "Gorgo" is laughably bad and pretentious. Lourie may have studied painting in Paris. He may have started his career as an art director and a production designer in the 1930s. He may have collaborated with the likes of Jean Renoir and Charles Chaplin. But "Gorgo" is not the kind of movie you should pretend to like in order to pass for a discerning film buff.

    Some of my favorite lines from the MST3K commentary include: "Here's the script. You take my part in the movie for a while"; "I didn't know elephants exploded on impact"; and "I don't think he was the first officer ever" "That's exactly what they're saying!"
  • smiley011999
    April 4, 2009
    smiley011999
    A mother's love dinosaur style.
  • jp992751
    February 13, 2009
    jp992751
    FAKE FAKE FAKE FKAE FAKE!!! I am sorry but this was so fake it was just terrible.
  • hockalocker
    May 5, 2008
    hockalocker
    This was my favorite movie when I was a kid. I still love it. It's a little Godzilla and a little Beowolf.
  • DuncanRR
    April 2, 2008
    DuncanRR
    The British: "Oi! Japan! We can make an awesome cheesy monster movie, too!"
  • mpghoul1973
    March 8, 2008
    mpghoul1973
    Gorgo is a refreshing change of scenery and pace in the giant monster attacks film genre. The scenes of London being ripped apart are incredible. I cant remember ever seeing Tokyo's inhabitants ever being crushed beneath tons of falling building like this before. And theres alot ...( read more)of crushing going on. It gets pretty scary once Mama shows up to claim her offspring.
    The lighting is great and the special effects are superb for 1961.
    Ive never been a giant monster freak, but Gorgo is better than any Godzilla film that ive ever seen.
  • lizardmanster
    August 31, 2007
    lizardmanster
    The finest non-Godzilla movie out there. Irish monster kicks British ass. And the monsters win!!! Excellent!
  • idahoexploded
    June 19, 2007
    idahoexploded
    Excellent British Godzilla rip-off. Nice change of pace to see London getting torn up instead of Tokyo.
  • micc98
    February 4, 2007
    micc98
    Its not Godzilla quality (which ain't saying much) but I dug it

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