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Wednesday 6 September 2023

Unknown Gorilla! So Spectacular It Took One Year to Produce!

I'm remembering Konga week, with this recent re-discovery, a 1948 adventure film called Unknown Island. 

A terrific movie, with some excellent man-in-suit prehistoric monsters, and even a giant gorilla! (See pic). Unknown Island was filmed in a two-color process called CineColor, and the restored DVD at least, is excellent! 

Here's to another "Giant Monkey Week!"

Rob C
USA
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5 comments:

  1. Scott Kellogg9/06/2023 12:51 pm

    Never heard of "Unknown Island"
    Sounds fun!
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unknown_Island

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    1. Anonymous9/06/2023 4:17 pm

      Oh, Unknown Island was on TV all the time in the New York area back in the 60s. Really a missing link between earlier films like King Kong and One Million Years BC, and the giant monster craze of the 1950s. Some great man-in-suit monster work too. It’s easy to find now online. SFZ

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  2. WOODSY9/07/2023 9:44 am

    That is one scary Gorilla on the lobby card!

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    1. Anonymous9/07/2023 4:26 pm

      … and although that picture doesn’t represent it well, in the film it is a GIANT gorilla, like thirty feet tall, as big as the dinosaurs! SFZ

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    2. WOODSY9/08/2023 9:24 am

      Thirty feet, wow!

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