Alas, this was the period when Hammer could barely secure financing for a trip to the pub, so Nessie inevitably fell apart before a single frame was shot. Details have been hard to track down, but evidently the premise was that the Loch Ness Monster would leave its home waters for some ecological reason, and go on a kaiju rampage across the British Isles. It was called Nessie, and it was to have been a joint venture by Hammer Film Productions and the Japanese Toho studio. The strangest Dino-Kong coattail-rider that I know of sadly never got made. Most of them were giant ape movies of one sort or another, but some producers had more expansive visions. ![]() ![]() Late in 1976 and early in 1977, when everybody the world over was assuming that the Dino De Laurentiis King Kong would be the biggest thing since the Empire State Building, a lot of cash-in projects got green-lit. ![]() Legend of Dinosaurs and Monster Birds / Legend of the Dinosaurs / Kyoryu Kaicho no Densetsu (1977) -**
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