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Director
  
Irwin Allen

Duration
  

Language
  
English

5.5/10
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Genre
  
Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

Country
  
United States

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Release date
  
July 13, 1960 (U.S.)

Based on
  
The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

Writer
  
Charles Bennett (screenplay), Irwin Allen (screenplay)

Music director
  
Paul Sawtell, Bert Shefter

Screenplay
  
Irwin Allen, Arthur Conan Doyle, Charles Bennett

Cast
  
Michael Rennie
(Lord John Roxton),
Jill St. John
(Jennifer Holmes),
David Hedison
(Ed Malone),
Claude Rains
(Prof. George Edward Challenger),
Fernando Lamas
(Manuel Gomez),
Richard Haydn
(Prof. Summerlee)

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

The Lost World is a 1960 De Luxe Color and a CinemaScope fantasy adventure film loosely based on the novel of the same name by Arthur Conan Doyle and directed by Irwin Allen. The plot of the film revolves around the exploration of a flat mountain in Venezuela inhabited by cannibals, dinosaurs, carnivorous plants, and giant spiders. The cast includes Claude Rains, David Hedison, Fernando Lamas, Jill St. John, and Michael Rennie.

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Plot

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Professor Challenger (Claude Rains), a famed biologist and anthropologist, reports to the London Zoological Society that he has discovered living specimens of supposedly extinct animals, including dinosaurs, on an expedition to the Amazon Basin. When his colleagues dismiss his claims, he challenges the Society to mount another expedition to verify his story. Challenger and his companions travel to an isolated plateau, where they encounter prehistoric creatures and other hazards, and discover the legacy of a previous explorer that reveals the hidden past of one of their team. During a volcanic eruption, they escape from the plateau carrying the egg of a Tyrannosaurus rex. The egg hatches when it is dropped by accident, and Professor Challenger decides to take the infant dinosaur back to London with them.

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  • Michael Rennie as Lord John Roxton — An experienced big-game hunter who joins the expedition.
  • Jill St. John as Jennifer Holmes — The daughter of the owner of the Global News.
  • David Hedison as Ed Malone — A journalist at the Global News who volunteers to join the expedition.
  • Claude Rains as Professor George Edward Challenger — The short-tempered leader of the expedition.
  • Fernando Lamas as Manuel Gomez — The expedition's helicopter pilot.
  • Richard Haydn as Professor Summerlee — A rival of Challenger's who joins the expedition.
  • Ray Stricklyn as David Holmes — The brother of Jennifer Holmes and the son of Malone's boss Stuart Holmes.
  • Jay Novello as Costa — Gomez' assistant who also guides the expedition into the plateau.
  • Ian Wolfe as Burton White — A professor who visited the Amazon Plateau before Challenger's expedition.
  • John Graham as Stuart Holmes — Edward Malone's employer and the father of Jennifer and David Holmes.
  • Colin Campbell as Prof. Waldron who organises the expedition.
  • Vitina Marcus as the Native Girl.

    • Production

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    Allen purchased the rights to Doyle's novel for $100,000. He received financing to make the film from Buddy Adler, head of production at 20th Century Fox.

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    Allen said he wanted to cast Trevor Howard and Peter Ustinov in support to Rains.

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    Special effects for the film were rather basic and involved monitor lizards, iguanas, and crocodiles affixed with miniature horns and fins. Director Allen later stated that though he wanted stop motion models, he could only work with lizards and live creatures in accordance with the studio's budget.

    Legacy

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    Irwin Allen utilized stock footage from this film for episodes of his various TV series, including Land of the Giants, Lost in Space, The Time Tunnel, and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. In 1966, Irwin Allen even tried to sell a TV series based on the film as he had done with Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea but was unsuccessful. Stock footage was also used in the 1970 movie When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth.

    Comic book adaption

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  • Dell Four Color #1145 (August 1960)

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    References

    The Lost World (1960 film) Wikipedia
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