Directed by:
Harry O. HoytScreenplay:
Marion FairfaxCinematography:
Arthur EdesonCast:
Bessie Love, Lewis Stone, Wallace Beery, Lloyd Hughes, Alma Bennett, Arthur Hoyt, Bull Montana, Charles Wellesley, Arthur Conan Doyle, Gilbert Roland (more)VOD (1)
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Professor Challenger – ridiculed for his speeches on living dinosaurs and desperate to prove their existence – engineers the expedition with Malone to rescue Paula White’s father (previously stranded on the plateau) and to further his research and show the mocking disbelievers that dinosaurs do still exist after all. Initially unaware that their efforts are being closely followed by an ape-man – science’s ‘missing link’ – an early appearance of a pterodactyl only hints at what terrifying realities exist high on the isolated plateau. (Eureka Entertainment)
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A classic work, whose creators the film world owes much to. Compared to the (eight years younger) King Kong, The Lost World is much more (unintentionally) funny and at times very naive, but then again - if it wasn't for this film, we might not have seen the story of the great ape. Moreover, the future Kong animators have gotten their hands on stop-motion animation (the lizard fights still look very good), and all things considered, and if I may make one not-so-fair comparison, they've brought a lot more dinosaurs to life here than Steven Spielberg and his crew did in Jurassic Park. And the ending with the brontosaurus in the city? Unprecedented. In 1925, the world must have been shocked.
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The magic of adventure escapism. The story arc is very simple and very melodramatic, as befits the early beginnings of cinema, but it still works very well and its archetype foreshadows legendary works such as the original King Kong and the relatively young Jurassic Park. What's more, the miniatures and special effects are really superb, which (especially in the bombastic last half-hour) would have been almost entirely at home in a film three decades younger – yes, Lost World surpasses in many ways even many American sci-fi films made in the 1950s and 60s. A genre milestone.
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Of course, what interested me the most in this movie were the tricks that are almost unbelievable for their time. The way stop motion animation is done here simply looks good, and yet the movie was made several years before the legendary "King Kong". True, the fights are not long, but the movements of the dinosaurs are worth it.
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