The Great Dinosaur Robbery
- The Great Dinosaur Robbery
"The Great Dinosaur Robbery" is a now out-of-print book released in 1970 and written David Eliades and Robert Forrest Webb under the pseudonym of David Forrest. The book was later the basis for the 1975 film "One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing".
Plot
The book is set in New York City in the 1920s, and follows attempts by Soviet spies to retrieve a military secret stolen by an agent of the United States. The secret, in microfilm format, is hidden in the skeleton of a dinosaur in the Museum of Natural History, and a plot soon develops to steal the dinosaur so that it may be examined more carefully.
Film
The film varied greatly from the book in the sense that it was now aimed at children rather than adults. The setting was also changed to Great Britain rather than New York, and the violence toned down considerably. In the book, the villains were agents of the newly-formed Soviet Union, but the film featured agents from post-WW1 China, with the Cold War undertones practically nonexistent in the film version.
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