Guy Madison stars as
an American cowboy in Mexico who falls for a pretty senorita. Of course, she’s betrothed to the local bad
guy, and you know it’s only a matter of time before she leaves that scumbag for
Guy. Complicating their relationship is
the appearance a mysterious beast that lives in a nearby swamp. It’s been eating livestock left and right,
and when it begins to get an appetite for fat drunk comic relief sidekicks,
it’s up to Guy to stop the beast.
The Beast of Hollow
Mountain kind of plays like a half-assed Valley of Gwangi as it only has one
cowboy and one dinosaur. The stop-motion
special effects are rather cheesy, but they do have a certain charm about
them. The color Cinemascope
cinematography is crisp, so it makes the dinosaur look cooler than he would’ve
been in black and white.
The problem is you
have to wait an awful long time before you get to see the beast. The lovey-dovey stuff with Guy and his
would-be girlfriend really slows things down to a crawl. The subplot with the drunkard sidekick and
his whiny son also eat up a lot of screen time.
At least the scene where Guy gets into a brawl with the bad guy is a lot
of fun. Their fight lasts a long time
and they pretty much wipe out half the town in the process. I can’t say it’s as good as the fight in
McClintock, but it’s certainly in the same spirit.
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