Yesterday, MattH wrote that:
<<Can I just say that James Fransiscus was one of the great beauties of his day? Good lord, that man was Adonis.>>
Yes, he was an Adonis, if a rather runty one. Check out how he's dwarfed by Charlton Heston in Beneath the Planet of the Apes. Good Lord, Heston was at least a head and a half taller than Mr. Fransiscus. (Didn't Mr. Fransiscus die of lung cancer brought on by chainsmoking?)
About The Valley of Gwangi. When I was a runty lad myself, my two favorite film genres were westerns and dinosaur movies. Just imagine the rejoicing in my runty lad's heart when this movie came out, which had both cowboys and dinosaurs in it. Ninety minutes of heaven, my friend, ninety minutes of heaven. (I always loved the scene in which Gwangi gets revealed to the audience at the arena, and he's gobbling down that little guy. Talk about a show stopper!) Oh, and the score by Jerome Moross is just plain terrific!