September 3, 1969 –
The stop-motion western, The Valley of Gwangi, directed by Jim O’Connolly, and starring James Franciscus, Richard Carlson, and Gila Golan opened on this date. This is the last dinosaur film Ray Harryhausen worked on.
When this film was first conceived it was supposed to have been a follow-up to King Kong, but was never made, but an early B&W version of the “cowboys in Africa” footage was shot, and wound up being used in Mighty Joe Young.
The Haus of Dcaligari 