↑ Dell Four Color #1145 at the Comic Book DB.↑ James Van Hise, Hot Blooded Dinosaur Movies, Pioneer Books Inc.Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File) : B12 ↑ Entertainment Films Stage Music: Adler Signs Allen for 'Lost World'.
New York Times (1923-Current file) 28 June 1959: X7.
THE LOST WORLD 1992 RETURN TO THE MOVIE
Stock footage was also used in the 1970 movie When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth.
THE LOST WORLD 1992 RETURN TO THE SERIES
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. 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. 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. Special effects for the film were rather basic and involved monitor lizards, iguanas, and crocodiles affixed with miniature horns and fins. Īllen said he wanted to cast Trevor Howard and Peter Ustinov in support to Rains. He received financing to make the film from Buddy Adler, head of production at 20th Century Fox. Waldron who organises the expedition.Īllen purchased the rights to Doyle's novel for $100,000. John Graham as Stuart Holmes - Edward Malone's employer and the father of Jennifer and David Holmes.Ian Wolfe as Burton White - A professor who visited the Amazon Plateau before Challenger's expedition.Jay Novello as Costa - Gomez' assistant who also guides the expedition into the plateau.Ray Stricklyn as David Holmes - The brother of Jennifer Holmes and the son of Malone's boss Stuart Holmes.Richard Haydn as Professor Summerlee - A rival of Challenger's who joins the expedition.
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. When his colleagues dismiss his claims, he challenges the Society to mount another expedition to verify his story. 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. The cast includes Claude Rains,ĭavid Hedison, Fernando Lamas, Jill St. 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 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.
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