The Last Dinosaur
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The Last Dinosaur is a television movie co-directed by Alexander Grasshoff and Shusei Kotani and co-produced by Japanese and American interests. This B-movie first aired in the United States in 1977.
[edit] Plot
Wealthy big-game hunter Maston Thrust (Richard Boone) has a multi-million dollar company, "Thrust INC." which successfully drills for oil in the polar caps with a manned laser drill, titled "Polar Borer Thrust". When the machine is going through a routine check in the icecaps it suddenly surfaces in an odd valley, which is super-heated by a volcano. The crew , all except for Chuck Wade (Steven Keats) , captain of the expedition, get out of the sub and explore the strange area. They end up as lunch for a giant prehistoric tyrannosaurus. Chuck makes it back and Maston decides to go there himself with Bunta (Luther Rackley) , a great hunter. Dr. Kawamoto (oddly portrayed by Tetsu Nakamura, a famed and Nobel Prize winning scientist).
Before embarking on the journey, Maston holds a press conference to inform the public of this great trek. There, he meets Frankie Banks (Joan Van Ark) a photographer. Who, apparently, won a competition for a free ticket on the trip. Maston, being his sexist self, goes on about how he's never taken a women on his journies and that he's not going to change now. But with clever pursuasion Frankie manages to get herself on.
Upon arriving at the isolated valley, the group is almost stampeded by a ceratopsian. Once they recooperate, Maston, Chuck, Bunta, and Frankie go out looking for the dinosaur. Leaving Dr. Kawamoto by himself to set up the camp. Of coarse, they find it, it's 3 MPH moving-self in all. Maston tries to shoot it, but his gun gets jammed. Bunta spears it, but a flying reptile comes out of nowhere and plucks it out.
