I was wondering about fights between dinosaurs in “prehistoric movies” (or any sci-fi flick that features dinos) – have there been ones where the tyrannosaur / allosaur / unidentified theropod winds up on the losing side? I know about the fantastic King Kong confrontations, of course, but right now, I can’t seem to think of any others…
Does it count if the theropod lost to humans or only where they lose to another Dino?
I think the original 1925 silent Lost World had a Triceratops defeat a T-Rex.
The last Jurassic movie had the Big Bad Theropod losing to a Mosasaurus in a single bite.
The T-rex loses to the spinosaurus in Jurassic Park 3.
Good one, I forgot that.
Problem is the Spinosaurus is also a theropod. I don’t think that counts.
The film had an Agathaumas* defeat an Allosaur, but then a T-Rex killed the Agathaumas.
*It was an Agathaumas in the movie, but I guess there’s doubt if it’s a different dinosaur than a Triceratops, and it’s often described as a Triceratops in references to the movie.
OK, thanks for the clarification, I haven’t seen it in decades.
If you can take your mind off Raquel Welch’s costume (or lack thereof) in One Million Years BC", a theropod gets killed by a Triceratops (don’t know what kind of therapod, the movie makers were a bit more concerned with Ms. Welch’s cleavage than paleontology).
Kind of a cheesy example, but a baby Apatosaurus, Triceratops, Saurolophus, Pteranodon and Stegosaurus kill a T-Rex in The Land Before Time by pushing it off a cliff, along with a giant boulder. It’s perhaps not the most realistic battle.
And rightfully so, twas her cleavage that made the movie a hit, not the cheesy dinos.
Agathaumas is a genus of doubtful validity that was named from some bones that are pretty similar in different kinds of ceratopsians. Today it’s basically considered a synonym for Triceratops. The film may have used the name because of a famous restoration by Charles Knight.
Not quite what the OP is looking for, but the cheesy classic Dinosaurus! ends with the T-Rex losing a battle with a steam shovel.
If we’re counting one theropod defeating another, then the first Jurassic Park also has a T. rex playing the Big Damn Hero near the end by eating a velociraptor.
There were dinosaurs in that movie? I never noticed.
Didn’t a dude with a sharp stick kill a theropod in that movie?
Oh, that does sound familar! I need to re-watch the movie.
I remember seeing that when I was a kid! (Now that you mention it, of course.) Fun stuff!
Yeah, I would be fine with mentions of them losing to humans, as well.
The TV series walking with Dinosaurs gave us a T’ rex vs. an ankylosaur:
The T. Rex not only loses, it's dead, but it doesn't know it yet. In the 1950s film **the Animal World** ray Harryhausen collaborated with his mentor Willis O'Brien to give us a T. rex vs. triceratops battle that the Triceratops is doing better in, but the fight gets broken up by one of those inconvenient volcano eruptionsI fondly recall Dinosaurus with the T.Rex vs. steamshovel at the end (I own a copy of the film). I’m convinced that James Cameron saw it, too, and thet it inspired the duel between Ripley in the Loader Suit and the Alien Queen at the end of Aliens.
There’s a T. rex vs. Triceratops in the awful TV movie The Last Dinosaur, but the T. rex wins
In Caveman, it happens twice
T-rex versus old blind man, played by Jack Gilford
T-rex versus Ringo Starr, armed with prehistoric ganja