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Writers:
Irwin Allen (screenplay)
Charles Bennett (screenplay)
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Release Date:
13 July 1960 (USA) more
Tagline:
In the middle of the twentieth century, you fall off the brink of time! more
Plot:
Professor Challenger leads an expedition of scientists and adventurers to a remote plateau deep in the Amazonian jungle to verify his claim that dinosaurs still live there. full summary | add synopsis
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1 nomination more
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This World Would Have Been Spotted by Air in 1960 more (45 total)
Cast
(Complete credited cast)| Michael Rennie | ... | Lord John Roxton | |
| Jill St. John | ... | Jennifer Holmes (as Jill St.John) | |
| David Hedison | ... | Ed Malone | |
| Claude Rains | ... | Professor George Edward Challenger | |
| Fernando Lamas | ... | Manuel Gomez | |
| Richard Haydn | ... | Professor Summerlee | |
| Ray Stricklyn | ... | David Holmes | |
| Jay Novello | ... | Costa | |
| Vitina Marcus | ... | Native Girl | |
| Ian Wolfe | ... | Burton White |
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World (USA) (complete title)
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97 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Mono (Westrex Recording System) | 4-Track Stereo (35 mm mag-optical prints)
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Canada:PG (Ontario) | USA:Approved (certificate #19503) | Finland:K-12
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Irwin Allen used real-life lizards (mainly monitor lizards) to portray the dinosaurs. Horns and spikes were attached to the lizards to make them look a bit like more like dinosaurs. more
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Continuity: When Jennifer is attacked by one of the vines, she's carrying a basket with her poodle inside it in one shot, then grabs the vine with both hands in the next. more
Quotes:
Ed Malone:
[after the "brontosaurus" had destroyed the helicopter] My radio's gone with it. That's the last of my wire stories, the end of outside contact.
Costa:
The End of us.
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Featured in "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Turn Back the Clock (#1.7)" (1964) more
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The Lost World might have been a better film if it had been set back in the time when Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote the novel. Which would be in the pre-World War I days of 1912. Back then such a plateau might have escaped detection from modern man.
In any event it's been updated to 1960 and I remember seeing it for the first time at a downtown Rochester theater long since demolished and I was with my grandmother. She took me when I was by myself visiting them in Rochester. I remember the movie, but I also remember how slow she was moving. What I didn't know was that she was in the first stages of Parkinson's disease which would eventually kill her.
Seen as an adult it's a film better left to the juvenile set. And it could use a makeover now and replace those dinosaurs with the more realistic ones of Jurassic Park.
But I doubt we could get a cast as classic as the one I saw. Claude Rains is in the lead as Conan Doyle's irascible Professor George Challenger who was the protagonist in about five books. Not as many as that much more known Conan Doyle hero Sherlock Holmes, but Challenger has his following.
In this film he's back from South America in the country roughly between Venezuela and British Guiana at the time, deep in the interior at some of the Amazon tributary headwaters. He claims he saw some ancient dinosaurs alive on a plateau.
True to his name Claude Rains invites company and financing on a new expedition to prove him right. His rival Richard Haydn accepts as does big game hunter Michael Rennie and David Hedison who is an American newspaperman whose publisher promises financing for an exclusive.
Of course it wouldn't be right in the day of woman's liberation if the shapely Jill St. John, sportswoman and a crack shot doesn't come along with her brother Ray Stricklyn. Guiding the expedition are South Americans Fernando Lamas and Jay Novello who have an agenda all their own involving at least one member of the party.
Watching The Lost World again, I think of myself as a kid back in the day and even with such a cast it really should stay in the juvenile trade. And this review is dedicated to my grandmother Mrs. Sophie Lucyshyn who took me to the movies that day back in 1960.