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Director:
Irwin Allen
Writers:
Irwin Allen (screenplay)
Charles Bennett (screenplay)
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Release Date:
13 July 1960 (USA) more
Genre:
Adventure | Sci-Fi 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
Awards:
1 nomination more
User Comments:
It just isn't what it shoud have been . . .. more

Cast

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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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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World (USA) (complete title)
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Runtime:
97 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System) | 4-Track Stereo (35 mm mag-optical prints)
Certification:
Canada:PG (Ontario) | USA:Approved (certificate #19503) | Finland:K-12

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Apparently, Director Irwin Allen wanted to use stop-motion dinosaurs for this film, but due to budget reasons he had to use the lizards as dinosaurs. more
Goofs:
Continuity: In the exterior shots of the helicopter, Manuel Gomez can be seen in a tiny cockpit on top flying it (this also houses much of the rotor engine). When they approach the plateau, the interior cockpit expands to accommodate the Professor and the rest of the cast. more
Quotes:
Lord John Roxton: The best title for a woman is still "Mrs"! more

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16 out of 19 people found the following comment useful:-
It just isn't what it shoud have been . . .., 2 March 2002
Author: Bruce Cook (brucemcook@windstream.net) from Fayetteville, GA

Unlike `The Lost Continent' (1951), this 20th Century Fox Cinemascope production had an ample budget -- but the money wasn't spent very well. A good cast (Michael Rennie, Claude Rains, Jill St. John, David Hedison, and Fernando Lamas) are all part of an expedition that discovers a plateau in South America where dinosaurs still thrive.

Unfortunately producer Irwin Allen elected not to use stop motion animation to create the dinosaurs. Instead, the audience is treated to two hours of disguised iguanas and enlarged baby alligators. Irwin Allen also co-wrote the script, which is burdened by an excess of soap opera melodrama. The good musical score, however, is by Paul Sawtell and Bert Shefter.

Top quality production values and good photography make the film easy enough to watch, but there's a tragic story behind `The Lost World'. Willis O'Brien, creator of `King Kong', spent several years during the late 1950s making preparations for a big-budget remake of his 1925 version of `The Lost World'. He made his pitch to producer Irwin Allen and the big wheels at 20th Century Fox, showing them the hundreds of preproduction drawings and paintings he had done. He succeeded in persuading them to make the film -- but Fox refused to let O'Brien do the film's special effects, substituting the poorly embellished reptiles instead.

From all reports, O'Brien's version would have been the greatest lost-land adventure movie of all time. Irwin Allen's lack of vision is puzzling in view of the fact that in 1955 he produced `The Animal World' with animated dinosaurs by Ray Harryhausen and Wills O'Brien! See my comments on `Animal World' for more info.

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