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4.3/10   296 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Jim Aupperle (story)
Ralph Lucas (screenplay)
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Release Date:
27 August 1979 (Sweden) more
Genre:
Tagline:
Trapped On A Lost World of Prehistoric Monsters more
Plot:
A space ship gets lost and is forced to make an emergency landing on an unknown planet. The planet looks much like earth... more | full synopsis
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Awards:
1 win more
NewsDesk:
Weekend Shopping Guide 11/13/09: Knowledge!
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User Reviews:
A genuinely haunting film. more (29 total)

Cast

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James Whitworth ... Jim
Pamela Bottaro ... Nyla
Louie Lawless ... Capt. Lee Norsythe
Harvey Shain ... Harvey Baylor
Charlotte Speer ... Charlotte
Chuck Pennington ... Chuck
Derna Wylde ... Derna Lee

Max Thayer ... Mike (as Michael Thayer)
Mary Appleseth ... Cindy (communications officer)
Michael Lee ... Charlotte's boy
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Additional Details

Runtime:
84 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
One of the dinosaurs that Captain Lee encounters near the end of the film when he is trying to get the T-Rex's attention is based on the Rhedosaurus, the dinosaur from The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953). more
Quotes:
Harvey: Why don't we just go somewhere, and ask somebody for some help?
Mike: This isn't Nebraska. There isn't any service station down the road. There isn't any phone. If there were, the long-distance rates would be something else.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in V.C.R. (2008) more

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9 out of 12 people found the following review useful.
A genuinely haunting film., 15 May 2001
10/10
Author: G.Spider from UK

A hard-to-come-by film, which is a shame as this is a real gem. A group of space travellers are accidentally stranded on a distant alien planet which turns out to be inhabited by prehistoric monsters. This is real edge-of-seat suspence from beginning to end, and you really feel for the characters. There is plenty of appropriately chilling scenery (and I couldn't see any houses or roads), a superbly eerie soundtrack and some dramatic, impressive stop-motion dinosaurs including one of the scariest Tyrannosaurs ever to dominate a movie screen (it even kills the Beast from 20,000 Fathoms at one point, the Harryhausen monster's cameo a nice touch). An under-rated classic, up there with the best dinosaur films.

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