Gorgo

1961

Action / Horror / Sci-Fi

7
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 38% · 4 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 38% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.6/10 10 4793 4.8K

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Plot summary

Greedy sailors capture a giant lizard off the coast of Ireland and sell it to a London circus. Then its mother shows up.

Director

Eugène Lourié Photo
Eugène Lourié

Top cast

Arthur Goodman Photo
Arthur Goodman as Circus Audience
Maurice Kaufmann Photo
Maurice Kaufmann as Radio Reporter
Nigel Green Photo
Nigel Green as Bulletin Announcer
William Sylvester Photo
William Sylvester as Sam Slade
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
705.65 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 16 min
Seeds 2
1.28 GB
1904*1072
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 16 min
Seeds 4

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by rpurdy 7 / 10

This is a very good "giant monster" flick

Reviewed by Space_Mafune 7 / 10

British Giant Monster FX Epic

GORGO is hardly a perfect film but it does have several things working in its favor which make it more entertaining than many other giant monster films. One is director Eugene Lourie, certainly no stranger to giant monster films directing THE BEAST FROM 20000 FATHOMS, THE COLOSSUS OF NEW YORK, THE GIANT BEHEMOTH as well as GORGO. In terms of Special FX and Ending, only the first film named above is better than GORGO. The FX work(done by Tom Howard) in GORGO is truly well-accomplished and for the time and era was rather ground breaking. The Ending is also truly unique amongst giant monster films which usually all end the same way but this one certainly doesn't.The problems lie mostly with lack of character development and some serious leaps of logic. Still there are times this film can be quite suspenseful particularly once Mama Gorgo comes on the scene. The huge red-eyed Mama rising out of the water is certainly memorable stuff.
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