Production
Producer Hal Roach hired D. W. Griffith to produce this film and Of Mice and Men, writing to him, "I need help from the production side to select the proper writers, cast, etc. and to help me generally in the supervision of these pictures." Although Griffith eventually disagreed with Roach over the production and parted, Roach later insisted that some of the scenes in the completed film were directed by Griffith. This would make the film the final production in which Griffith was actively involved. But cast members recall Griffith directing only the screen tests and costume tests. When Roach advertised the film in late 1939 with Griffith listed as producer, Griffith asked that his name be removed.
The film was nominated for two Academy Awards: Best Musical Score and Best Special Effects. The "dinosaurs" seen in the film include a pig in a rubber triceratops suit, a man in a tyrannosaurus suit, an alligator with glued-on dimetrodon sail and a Rhinoceros Iguana.
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