History Film / TheLastDinosaur

* YourSizeMayVary: Despite the ''Tyrannosaurus'' being explicitly stated to be 20 feet tall, it frequently appears much larger.

1977 action-adventure film in which a drilling expedition unexpectedly finds a LostWorld deep below the [[MysteriousAntarctica North Pole]]. Big game hunter and oil tycoon Masten Thrust is determined to hunt his last and ultimate predator, a ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' that killed nearly the entire first explorer group. Ultimately the team becomes trapped in the LostWorld and must try to survive against the ''T. rex'' and vicious cavemen. This film was a co-production between Creator/RankinBassProductions (best known for the stop-motion ''WesternAnimation/RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer'' special) and Creator/TsuburayaProductions (best known for ''Series/{{Ultraman}}'' and its countless spin-offs).

* IChooseToStay: [[spoiler:Masten Thrust, at the end, decides to stay on the LostWorld while the rest of the expedition leaves on the reclaimed drill.]]

* DoubleMeaningTitle: ''The Last Dinosaur'' refers to not just the ''Tyrannosaurus'', but also Masten Thrust. Lampshaded when he acknowledges this himself.

1977 action-adventure film in which a drilling expedition unexpectedly finds a LostWorld deep below the [[MysteriousAntarctica North Pole]]. Big game hunter and oil tycoon Masten Thrust is determined to hunt his last and ultimate predator, a ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' that killed nearly the entire first explorer group. Ultimately the team becomes trapped in the LostWorld and must try to survive against the ''T. rex'' and vicious cavemen. This film was a co-production between Creator/RankinBassProductions (best known for the stop-motion ''WesternAnimation/RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer'' special) and Tsuburaya Productions (best known for ''Series/{{Ultraman}}'' and its countless spin-offs).

* GreatWhiteHunter: Masten Thrust, complete with a black tracker to carry his rifle for him.

** TheSmartGuy: Dr. Kawamoto a, well, scientist. Wade is also a geologist and knows most about the dinosaurs but is...

* TheVoiceless: Bunta. Though Thrust says he is "very articulate if you happen to speak his language", he is never heard saying a thing in any language.

* ClosedCircle: The LostWorld is deep underneath the Artic ice to start with, and then the ''Tyrannosaurus'' steals the drilling machine and takes it to its lair, and then to the horror of the rest of the expedition Masten reveals that he ordered that no rescue teams were to be sent.

* SendInTheRescueTeam: Defied, much to the horror of the rest of the expedition: Masten gave explicit orders that if the expedition didn't contacted the surface world in two days' time, no rescue attempt was to be made to avoid any more potential massacres. The team is able to recover the drilling machine three months after the ''T. Rex'' steals it.

* TyrannosaurusRex: Paleontologists have called them the crown of creation...the king of the super tyrant lizards!

* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Chuck, who is nominally a geologist, exhibits expertise in zoology, paleontology and botany. Likewise Kawamoto is both a machinist/engineer, geologist and botanist.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Hmm, judging by the clothes and especially the music, it's a good guess this was made in the 1970's.

1977 action-adventure film in which a drilling expedition unexpectedly finds a LostWorld deep below the [[MysteriousAntarctica North Pole]]. Big game hunter and oil tycoon Masten Thrust is determined to hunt his last and ultimate predator, a ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' that killed nearly the entire first explorer group. Ultimately the team becomes trapped in the LostWorld and must try to survive against the T. Rex and vicious cavemen. This film was a co-production between Rankin/Bass (best known for the stop-motion ''Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer'' special) and Tsuburaya Productions (best known for Ultraman and its countless spin-offs).

* DumbDinos: The'' T. rex'' consistently attacks the humans and inanimate objects rather than its natural prey.

* LastOfHisKind: The ''Tyrannosaurus'' is assumed and said to be this, and Thrust also declares himself as such, giving the film it's DoubleMeaningTitle.
* LivingDinosaurs: Somehow dinosaur life was preserve in the oasis in the Artic.

* NonIndicativeName: The T-rex may very well be the last of its species, (no others are shown) but there clearly are other dinosaurs in the LostWorld.

1977 action-adventure film in which a drilling expedition unexpectedly finds a LostWorld deep below the [[MysteriousAntarctica North Pole]]. Big game hunter and oil tycoon Masten Thrust is determined to hunt his last and ultimate predator, a ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' that killed nearly the entire first explorer group. Ultimately the team becomes trapped in the lost world and must try to survive against the T. Rex and vicious cavemen. This film was a co-production between Rankin/Bass (best known for the stop-motion ''Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer'' special) and Tsuburaya Productions (best known for Ultraman and its countless spin-offs).

* MoralDissonance: Frankie is a liberated and independent woman and manages to get herself included in the expedition because women are as capable as men. No argument there, but somehow she ends up being assigned the cooking and housekeeping chores when they're stranded in the lost world. Made a little more obnoxious when they "adopt" Hazel, a cavewoman, whom Frankie then saddles with the domestic duties, including washing and brushing Frankie's hair. [[note:]]Hazel gets her name because Wade laughingly suggests it as an apparently perfect maid's name. Francesca laughs right along with the boys.[[/note]]

* PeopleInRubberSuits: Well the effects were Japanese-made, and what are they most famous for?

* ElephantGraveyard: The Tyrannosaur's SuperVillainLair is a valley boneward of all the things its killed and eaten.

* SomewhereAPaleontologistIsCrying: There are a lot of inaccuracies you can point out, most egregious being the ''Uintatherium'' (a prehistoric rhino-like mammal) that attacks the group shortly after their arrival, which Chuck identifies as a "ceratopsian" (the group of horned dinosaurs that ''Triceratops'' belonged to). This is especially hilarious considering earlier in the film Chuck claimed to have taken a year of vertebrate paleontology.

* SomewhereAPaleontologistIsCrying: There are a lot of inaccuracies you can point out, but most of this is averted when you take the film into proper context. Please see the discussion page for a detailed breakdown of this. However there are a few things that are completely unforgivable, most egregious being the ''Uintatherium'' (a prehistoric rhino-like mammal) that attacks the group shortly after their arrival, which Chuck identifies as a "ceratopsian" (the group of horned dinosaurs that ''Triceratops'' belonged to). This is especially hilarious considering earlier in the film Chuck claimed to have taken a year of vertebrate paleontology.

1977 action-adventure film in which a drilling expedition unexpectedly finds a LostWorld deep below the [[MysteriousAntarctica North Pole]]. Big game hunter and oil tycoon Masten Thrust is determined to hunt his last and ultimate predator, a ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' that killed nearly the entire first explorer group. Ultimately the team becomes trapped in the lost world and must try to survive against the T. Rex and vicious cavemen. This film was a co-production between Rankin/Bass (best known for the stop-motion ''Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer'' special) and Tsuburaya Productions (best known for Ultraman and it's countless spin-offs).

* DoubleMeaningTitle: ''The Last Dinosaur'' refers to not just the ''Tyrannosaurus'', but also Masten Thrust.