The Lost World (1960)

Regista:

Irwin Allen

Writers:

Irwin Allen (screenplay)
Charles Bennett (screenplay)

Data di uscita:

13 luglio 1960 (USA)

Genere:

Adventure | Sci-Fi

Slogan:

In the middle of the twentieth century, you fall off the brink of time!

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.

Plot Keywords:

Lizards Used As Dinosaurs | Remake | Giant Spider | Helicopter | Based On Novel

Premi:

1 nomination

Recensioni degli utenti:

okay: which one of you nitwits forgot the map?

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

Alias:

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World (USA) (complete title)

Durata:

97 min

Nazionalità:

USA

Lingua:

Inglese

Colore:

Colore

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sonoro:

4-Track Stereo (35 mm mag-optical prints) | Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Divieti:

USA:Approved (certificate #19503) | Canada:PG (Ontario) | Finland:K-12

Company:

Irwin Allen Productions

Curiosità:

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.

Errori:

Factual errors: When the camp is attacked, after the explorers have run away, Challenger identifies the creature as a Brontosaurus, yet the posture of the animal is all wrong and it has certain features from other herbivorous dinosaurs like Triceratops and Stergosaurus.

Citazioni:

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.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Turn Back the Clock (#1.7)" (1964)

okay: which one of you nitwits forgot the map?

Irwin Allen puts a saddle on the Conan Doyle novel and digs in the spurs in this silly adaptation of the eponymous book. Loaded with action but not much else, and well stocked with useless characters such as Frosty the poodle. SEE! Jill St.John, who starts off feisty but ends up as simpering baggage, explore the Amazon in pink tights. HEAR!! Michael Rennie murder the Spanish language. FEEL!!! The sense of loss as Fernando Lamas deadpans the line: "My helicopter". In an interview years later, David Hedison admitted that he HATED this movie, and it's easy to see why. With typical pre-release hype, Irwin Allen teased the public with promises of unbelievably authentic-looking monsters("like nothing you've ever seen before!"). Wrong: they were exactly like everything we've seen before. The actors, from Claude Rains to Fernando Lamas, are all good to very good, but not in this clunker. Their combined talents were wasted, as will be your money if you buy or rent this film. Get it ONLY if you feel compelled to complete a collection of '50s and '60s B-movies, otherwise: don't walk, run!