Trivia: Lourie, Eastwood & prehistoric monster movies

[dragon53]

TRIVIA---Academy Award-nominated art director/director Eugene Lourie is best know by sci fi fans as the director of three giant dinosaur movies: THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS, THE GIANT BEHEMOTH and GORGO. Lourie's last movie as art director was Clint Eastwood's BRONCO BILLY. Ironically, Clint Eastwood's first movie role also involved a prehistoric monster movie---Eastwood played Jennings the lab technician in REVENGE OF THE CREATURE, the sequel to the prehistoric Gill-man in THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON.

Eugene Lourie is best know by sci fi fans as the director of three giant dinosaur movies: THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS, THE GIANT BEHEMOTH and GORGO.








Lourie's last movie as art director was Clint Eastwood's BRONCO BILLY.




Ironically, Clint Eastwood's first movie role also involved a prehistoric monster movie---Eastwood played Jennings the lab technician in REVENGE OF THE CREATURE, the sequel to the prehistoric Gill-man in THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON.

[Gwangi]

I did not know that Eastwood was in Revenge of the Creature but I do know that he's in Tarantula (1955), although only very briefly.