The Lost World

1960

Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi

17
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 20% · 3 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 20% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.5/10 10 4855 4.9K

central and south america professor dinosaur

Plot summary

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.

Director

Irwin Allen Photo
Irwin Allen

Top cast

Claude Rains Photo
Claude Rains as Prof. George Edward Challenger
Fernando Lamas Photo
Fernando Lamas as Manuel Gomez
Ben Wright Photo
Ben Wright as BBC Field Reporter Ted Bottomley
Jill St. John Photo
Jill St. John as Jennifer Holmes
720p.BLU 1080p.BLU
751.81 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 37 min
Seeds 3
1.44 GB
1920*1080
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 37 min
Seeds 9

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Hey_Sweden 7 / 10

Solid escapism for undemanding viewers.

From the "Master of Disaster", producer & director Irwin Allen, comes this fantasy-adventure that may be too goofy and corny for some tastes. But it's played with a healthy, hard to resist amount of humor, and it's just old-fashioned enough - albeit in color and widescreen - to keep it reasonably fun.Claude Rains plays Professor George Edward Challenger, a scientist who discovered something extraordinary on a past expedition. It's a plateau, deep in the Amazon jungle, where dinosaurs still roam. A news magnate finances a second expedition to the area, so that Challenger can obtain proof of what he saw. In his company will be a hunter / adventurer (Michael Rennie), the magnates' headstrong daughter (Jill St. John), who actually invites herself along, her brother (Ray Stricklyn), a journalist (David Hedison), a pilot (Fernando Lamas), a cowardly guide (Jay Novello), and Challengers' rival Professor Summerlee (Richard Haydn).This second screen adaptation of the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle story doesn't have much of a sense of awe & wonder, but it's staged and executed with some flair, and has its share of amusements. One thing it sadly lacks is effects work by the legendary Willis O'Brien, who worked on the first film. Here, he's credited as "effects technician", but his primary task was coming up with dinosaur designs. The so-called "dinosaurs" are actually played by ordinary Earth reptiles made to look huge through photographic trickery.Our heroes are a likable enough bunch. Rains chews on the scenery in a flamboyant portrayal. One of his first orders of business is whopping Hedison on the head with his umbrella. St. John is cute, as is Vitina Marcus as a native gal. Rennie is a macho leading man.It gets better as it goes along, delivering a fair amount of obstacles for the group to surmount on their way to freedom. The finale is particularly exciting as they race through mountainous tunnels and avoid lava flows. The music by Paul Sawtell & Bert Shefter is rousing, the cinematography by Winton C. Hoch fairly colorful.Seven out of 10.
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Reviewed by Theo Robertson 6 / 10

Entertaining As A Child

This film was shown a couple of times in the " Saturday Night At The Movies " slot on BBC 1 in the early 1970s and being a young child at the time I enjoyed it immensely . Come on lads if you're six years old any movie featuring dinosaurs in the present day is a movie highlight

It goes without saying that my enthusiasim for THE LOST WORLD has waned in later life . It has a totally B movie quality to it and is rather unsophisticated . There is still some amusement to be had at the special effects . Nowadays thanks to the power of technology we can watch convincing dinosaurs thudding around but in the 1960s we had to put up with actors standing in front of some back projection pretending they're frightened of a couple of giant lizards with massive fins stuck on them . Oh well at least the cheese factor means it's more entertaining than JURASSIC PARK: THE LOST WORLD

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