Isla de los Dinosaurios, La |
Mexico • 1967 • 87m •
   • Directed by: Rafael Portillo. • Starring: Armando Silvestre, Alma Delia Fuentes, Manolo Fábregas, Elsa Cárdenas, Genaro Moreno, Crox Alvarado, Cavernario Galindo, Jesús Murcielago Velázquez, Cecilia Leger, Xochitl del Rosario, Reyes Oliva, Julie Janssen, Victorio Blanco. • Music by: Gustavo César Carrión.   A group of scientists in search of lost Atlantis are plane wrecked on an uncharted island inhabited by monsters of the prehistoric era.
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Yes, the Professor (Manolo Fábregas, Two Mules for Sister Sara) has convinced Pablo (Genaro Moreno, Las Mujeres Panteras), Esther (Elsa Cárdenas, Giant) and Laura (Alma Delia Fuentes, Panic) to jump in a prop plane and seek out this secret spot. Of course, the plane crashes but everyone is having so much fun on the island - no one gets upset at all - that this seems like a breezy travelogue.
That is until Laura is taken by a caveman named Molo (Armando Silvestre, Santo contra Los Zombis) and together, they battle dinosaurs - amazingly, stolen from much bigger productions like One Million B.C. - and fall in love, at which point she teaches him the value of money, shows his people how to make new weapons and gives the women tips on combing their hair. She's like one of those angels from the Book of Enoch that comes down to Earth after the Great Fall only to teach us things like dying garments and how to use makeup.
Everything works out. Well, a volcano does wipe out most of the island and that too was taken from that 1940 Hal Roach movie. So maybe not so well for everyone.
To be fair, these lizards with fins glued on them show up in more than just this movie. You can also spot them in everything from Tarzan's Desert Mystery, Two Lost Worlds and Untamed Women to Robot Monster, King Dinosaur and Teenage Caveman. Thanks to Mark David Welsh for pointing this out.
The angel Azazel is the one who did all that, plus showed humans how to make swords, daggers, shields, breastplates, bracelets, ornaments and how to create jewelry. Other angels like Amezarack, Amaros, Baraqiel, Kokabel, Tamiel and Asradel had to content themselves with just showing humanity how to cast spells and astrology.
Review by BandSAboutMovies from the Internet Movie Database.
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