History Film / Gorgo

* BilingualBonus: If you speak Irish. For instance, the first thing the islanders say to Joe (the thing that "doesn't sound like a greeting in any language") is "what will we do now?" In the part used as TheStinger for the MST3k episode, the man is actually shouting that they don't have time to waste talking to Englishmen.

* BilingualBonus: If you speak Irish. For instance, the first thing the islanders say to Joe (the thing that "doesn't sound like a greeting in any language") is "what will we do now?" They're also not saying they don't have time to talk to "strangers", [[TactfulTranslation they're saying they don't have time to be talking to Englishmen]].

* ShoutOut: Nara Island is named after a city in southern Honshu, Japan, in honor of ''Godzilla''. The movie was originally to be set in Japan, too, where the island's name would make sense, though amusingly, it still works in an Irish context, as Nara is an obvious anagram of Aran, the three islands of which are Ireland's most famous.
* ShownTheirWork: All the Irish spoken by the islanders is real Irish and correct in context. (Indeed, if anything it's ''too'' good -- it's very proper, educated UsefulNotes/{{Dublin}} Irish and not Connacht island dialect.)

* MonumentalDamage: London Bridge/Tower Bridge and the Big Ben get totaled by Gorgo's mom in her rampage.

* ProductPlacement: A Coca-Cola marquee is visible during Gorgo's mom's rampage through downtown London. Although the shot ''is'' Piccadilly Circus, which has had a Coca-Cola sign as a permanent fixture of its advertising hoardings for decades, so TruthInTelevision.

* ShownTheirWork: All the Irish spoken by the islanders is real Irish and correct in context. (Indeed, if anything it's ''too'' good -- it's very proper, educated Dublin Irish and not Connacht island dialect.)

Some British treasure hunters, headed by Captain Joe Ryan (Bill Travers) and first officer, Sam Slade (William Sylvester), are salvaging around [[Franchise/{{Godzilla}} Nara]] [[ShoutOut Island]] off the coast of Ireland when the region is rocked by an underwater volcanic eruption. Their ship is forced to dock for repairs. Ryan and Slade meet with the harbour master and learn that two divers in his employ have disappeared. One such diver is then found having died from fright. That night, the eponymous Gorgo emerges from the sea and trashes the harbour. Ryan offers to capture the creature, and succeeds in doing so. Gorgo is taken to London where he is put on display in a circus, against the wishes of the scientists who insist this could be dangerous. And yes, sure enough, said scientists are right. For it turns out the 65-foot tall Gorgo is just a baby. His fully-grown and ''very angry'' mother then emerges, and she wants her darling baby back...

* ShownTheirWork: All the Irish spoken by the islanders is real Irish and correct in context. (Indeed, if anything it's ''too'' good -- it's very proper, educated Irish and not one of the strongly accented island dialects.)

Some British treasure hunters, headed by Captain Joe Ryan (Bill Travers) and first officer, Sam Slade (William Sylvester), are salvaging around [[Franchise/{{Godzilla}} Nara]] [[ShoutOut Island]] off the coast of Ireland when the region is rocked by an underwater volcanic eruption. Their ship is forced to dock for repairs. Ryan and Slade meet with the harbour master and learn that two divers in his employ have disappeared. One such diver is then found having died from fright. That night, the epononymous Gorgo emerges from the sea and trashes the harbour. Ryan offers to capture the creature, and succeeds in doing so. Gorgo is taken to London where he is put on display in a circus, against the wishes of the scientists who insist this could be dangerous. And yes, sure enough, said scientists are right. For it turns out the 65-foot tall Gorgo is just a baby. His fully-grown and ''very angry'' mother then emerges, and she wants her darling baby back...

* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: Each wave of military equipment used against Gorgo's mother is actually ''weaker'' than the wave before it. They go from [=114mm=] guns to 75 and [=15mm=] guns to ''[=20mm=]'' cannons, and the torpedoes and rockets used get accordingly smaller as well. Since all the military equipment was StockFootage, there's really no excuse.

Also had a ComicBookAdaptation published by Creator/CharltonComics, some of which had art done by Creator/SteveDitko, and a {{Novelization}} by Carson Bingham.

** The movie was made with the intention to make you root for the monster. Apparently the director's daughter cried when she saw his earlier movie ''Film/TheGiantBehemoth'' when the monster in that film died, even scolding her father for 'killing the nice beast.' He made this film as an apology to her, seeing as how the monster survives and the relationship Sean has with Gorgo.

* DidntSeeThatComing: Needless to say, the human cast didn't expect for the 60 foot tall kaiju they caught to be a baby and his 200 foot tall mother to come on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge, nor did they expect said Kaiju to plow through all of the military's firepower unscathe.

** Gorgo's mom levels London and very likely killed many innocent people while at it, but the only reason she went to London in the first place was because people kidnapped her baby and turned him into a circus attraction, and stubbornly refused to do the sensible thing and let the baby go free even when they knew the mother was coming or even evacuate the citizens, purely out of arrogance that they could easily take her down when she arrived. The only human to actually try and do the right thing was young [[ChildrenAreInnocent Shaun]] who tries to convince everyone to set Gorgo free even before they know that there's a giant angry mom coming to save him, who gets ignored by the greedy and arrogant adults.
** The movie was made with the intention to make you root for the monster. Apparently the director's daughter cried when she saw his earlier movie ''Film/TheGiantBehemoth'' when the monster in that film died, even scolding her father for 'killing the nice beast.' He made this film as an apology to her, seeing as how the monster survives and the relationship Shaun has with Gorgo.

** One of the scientists insists the ship's crew continually hose down Gorgo while transporting him to London. We find out later that this creates a trail, which Mama Gorgo uses to find her baby right away.

* NonMaliciousMonster: Neither Gorgo nor its mother are out to destroy civilization or cause death for the sake of it, Gorgo's mother rampage is solely motivated by its desire to save its child from captivity and once she is reunited with it, they both leave peacefully. Even before, they both seemed content with living far away from civilization without causing trouble for anyone.

* ProductPlacement: A Coca-Cola marquee is visible during Gorgo's mom's rampage through downtown London. Although the shot ''is'' Piccadilly Circus, which has had a Coca-Cola sign as a permanent fixture of its advertising hoardings for decades, so TruthInTelevision
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Literally defines the climax of the film involving Gorgo's mom who isn't happy at her baby being turned into a circus attraction and tormented and makes sure mankind suffers for it.
* ShoutOut: Nara Island is named after a city in southern Honshu, Japan, in honor of ''Godzilla''. The movie was originally to be set in Japan, too, where the island's name would make sense. Though amusingly, it still works in an Irish context, as Nara is an obvious anagram of Aran, the three islands of which are Ireland's most famous.
* ShownTheirWork: All the Irish spoken by the islanders is real Irish and correct in context. (Indeed, if anything it's ''too'' good - it's very proper, educated Irish and not one of the strongly accented island dialects.)

* UnderestimatingBadassery: The military thinks that Gorgo's mother is just another animal they'll put down quickly. They were very wrong and all of London pay for their arrogance

* {{Novelization}} Published by Monarch Books, it features some deleted scenes from the film such as a scene where Sam and Joe fight a giant octopus and a [[MisplacedWildlife killer whale]] underwater while searching for the treasure. It also adds some sex scenes. How, you may ask, with no major female characters [[{{Squick}} aside from Gorgo's mother]]? Simple. Author Carson Bingham writes in a [[CanonForeigner daughter]] for [=McCartin=] who falls in love with Joe.

* AlwaysABiggerFish: The titular monster is just a baby. Its even more gigantic unnamed ''mother'' is the one that wrecks all of London's shit.
* BringItBackAlive: Gorgo was subjected to this and brought to London.

* ComicBookAdaptation: Illustrated by Creator/SteveDitko.

* DidntSeeThatComing: Needless to say, the human cast didn't expect for the 60 foot tall kaiju they caught to be a baby and his 200 foot tall mother to come on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge.

** Sure, Gorgo's mom levels London and probably killed millions of innocent people, but the only reason she went to London in the first place was because people kidnapped her baby and turned him into a circus attraction. The only human to actually oppose this last action is Shaun.

* {{Kaiju}}: Gorgo's mother. Gorgo himself, too, though he's only an infant, though already larger than a T.rex even as a baby.
* MamaBear: Replace "bear" with "kaiju" to have Gorgo's mother in a nutshell.

* MonumentalDamage: London Bri... errr, the '''Tower Bridge''' and Big Ben get totalled by Gorgo's mom.

** One of the scientists insists the ship's crew continually hose down Gorgo while transporting him to London. We find out later that this creates a trail, which [[OhCrap Mama Gorgo follows]].
** Also, one of the rockets fired at Gorgo's mother goes astray and hits Big Ben through the clock face.
* NonMaliciousMonster: Neither Gorgo nor its mother are out to destroy civilization or cause death for the sake of it, Gorgo's mother rampage is solely motivated by its desire to save its child from captivity and once she is reunited with it, they both leave peacefully.

* ProductPlacement:
** A Coca-Cola marquee is visible during Gorgo's mom's rampage through downtown London.
** Although the shot ''is'' Piccadilly Circus, which has had a Coca-Cola sign as a permanent fixture of its advertising hoardings for decades, so TruthInTelevision
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Literally defines the climax of the film involving Gorgo's mom.

* SuicidalOverconfidence: The military is entirely confident they'll be able to kill Gorgo's mother. It's for this reason that London wasn't evacuated despite them knowing she's coming. Needless to say, they fail.

** The military isn't much better: It doesn't occur to any of them to give Gorgo back until Mama Gorgo has trashed most of the Royal Navy and a good chunk of London.

* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: In the film itself, the fact that Gorgo's a baby and his mother goes on the warpath to get him back is a plot twist. However, the trailers flat out show the scene revealing that.

** NonMaliciousMonster: Neither Gorgo nor its mother are out to destroy civilization or cause death for the sake of it, Gorgo's mother rampage is solely motivated by its desire to save its child from captivity and once she is reunited with it, they both leave peacefully.

** Also, one of the rockets fired at Gorgo's mother goes astray and hits Big Ben through the clock face. Although it could be justified that this may be a low budget moment in the film.

* FridgeLogic: It's never properly explained exactly ''how'' the scientists figured out that Gorgo was only a baby, not to mention how they estimated the size of an adult Gorgo ''using two differently-sized drawings of an Iguanodon skeleton.''

** Sure, Gorgo's mom levels London and probably killed millions of innocent people, but the only reason she went to London in the first place was because people kidnapped her baby and turned him into a circus attraction.

* GiganticAdultsTinyBabies: Gorgo is about a tenth the size of his mommy. That said, he's still over 60 ft tall, while Ogra towers over 200 feet.

* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Sure, Gorgo's mom levels London and probably killed millions of innocent people, but the only reason she went to London in the first place was because people kidnapped her baby and turned him into a circus attraction.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: One of the scientists insists the ship's crew continually hose down Gorgo while transporting him to London. We find out later that this creates a trail, which [[OhCrap Mama Gorgo follows]].

* ProductPlacement: A Coca-Cola marquee is visible during Gorgo's mom's rampage through downtown London.

* TooDumbToLive: Several bystanders get roasted alive when they decide to go down to the dock and watch as the military fills the river with petrol and lights it in an attempt to burn Gorgo's mother.

Some British treasure hunters, headed by Captain Joe Ryan (Bill Travers) and first officer, Sam Slade (William Sylvester), are salvaging around [[Franchise/{{Godzilla}} Nara]] [[ShoutOut Island]] off the coast of Ireland when the region is rocked by an underwater volcanic eruption. Their ship is forced to dock for repairs. Ryan and Slade meet with the harbour master and learn that two divers in his employ have disappeared. One such diver is then found having died from fright. That night, the epononymous Gorgo emerges from the sea and trashes the harbour. Ryan offers to capture the creature, and succeeds in doing so. Gorgo is taken to London where he is put on display in a circus, against the wishes of the scientists who insist this could be dangerous. And yes, sure enough, said scientists are right. For it turns out the 65-foot tall Gorgo is just a baby. His fully-grown mommy then emerges, and she wants her darling boy back...

* ChromosomeCasting: There are no women in the film, except as background characters. This is lampshaded in the [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]] episode.

* GiganticAdultsTinyBabies: Gorgo is about a tenth the size of his mommy. That said, he's still over 20 ft tall.

* {{Kaiju}}: Gorgo's mother. Gorgo himself, too, though he's only an infant.

* {{Novelization}} Published by Monarch Books, it features some deleted scenes from the film such as a scene where Sam and Joe fight a giant octopus and a [[MisplacedWildlife killer whale]] underwater while searching for the treasure. It also adds some sex scenes. How, you may ask, with no major female characters? Simple. Author Carson Bingham writes in a [[CanonForeigner daughter]] for [=McCartin=] who falls in love with Joe.

* ShoutOut: Nara Island is named after a city in southern Honshu, Japan, in honor of ''Godzilla''.
** The movie was originally to be set in Japan, too, where the island's name would make sense.

* AlwaysABiggerFish