Super 8mm color sound 4x400'' Sci-Fi feature

 "GORGO"

Gorgo is a 1961 British science fiction monster film directed by Eugène Lourié and starring Bill Travers and William Sylvester. The story is about a ship's captain and his pearl diving crew who, with other fishermen on an island and an orphaned boy, discover and capture a gigantic amphibious sea creature and take it to London for public exhibition. This results in the creature's much larger mother invading London in search of her offspring, causing catastrophic destruction across the city.
Original Box


Duration: Approx. 78 minutes


Novel and comic book adaptations

Gorgo
Cover to issue #4 of Gorgo published by Charlton Comics, art by Steve Ditko.

A novelisation of the film was released in paperback at the time of its original release, written by Carson Bingham (real name: Bruce Cassiday) and published by Monarch Books.

From 1961 to 1965, Charlton Comics published 23 issues of the comic book Gorgo. It included work by Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko. The series was renamed Fantastic Giants with issue #24, which turned out to be the last issue of the series.