"He who takes from Gwangi the evil one is cursed."1900's Mexico and T.J. Breckenridge (Gila Golan), a beautiful cowgirl, owns a struggling wild west show. Her one attraction that she hopes will help turn things around is a tiny horse. Unfortunately it comes from a Forbidden Valley guarded by gypsies, who demand the return of the horse. Paleontologist, Sir Horace Bromley (Laurence Naismith), comes to hear about the horse and with T.J., her men, and her ex boyfriend Tuck (James Franciscus) they try and find the Valley. They they discover living dinosaurs. Now the horse doesn't matter, but obtaining a Gwangi (as the dinosaur is called by the gypsies),becomes their one aim.
A great little stop motion adventure from Ray Harryhausen, combining cowboys and lost worlds, in what is really a transposition of King Kong to Mexico and using a dinosaur rather than an ape, but I'll forgive them.
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