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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786304973424 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC ISBN: 630497342X Label: 20th Century Fox Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: 20th Century Fox Release Date: June 30, 1998 Running Time: 97 minutes Sales Rank: 16901 Studio: 20th Century Fox Theatrical Release Date: July 13, 1960
Amazon.com: The Lost World (Special Edition) is a terrific two-fer that includes Irwin Allen's glossy, 1960 adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's novel as well as the fantastic, 1925 silent version of the same story. In essence, The Lost World is Doyle's tale of an expedition to a mysterious plateau deep in the Amazon rainforest, where cantankerous adventurer Professor Challenger leads an expedition to prove the existence of prehistoric creatures living far from the civilized world. Allen's film, as with his many movie and television productions focusing on disasters (The Poseidon Adventure) and science fiction (Land of the Giants), is full of relationship complications within a large ensemble of characters, creating drama and tension even before terror strikes. An attractive cast including Claude Rains as Challenger, Michael Rennie, David Hedison, Jill St. John, and Fernando Lamas makes Allen's The Lost World fun to watch, especially if one self-consciously overlooks the cast's persistently clean and pressed wardrobe (and perfect hair) despite the jungle heat and assaults by cannibals.
Part of the film's charm is also its most ludicrous element: "dinosaurs" played by various, wriggling tropical lizards, a far cry from the stop-motion animation creatures--that actually look like dinosaurs--in Harry O. Hoyt's amazing take on The Lost World 35 years before Allen's. An impressive spectacle that conveys a certain beautiful wildness, the film stars Wallace Beery as an imposing Challenger, trapped with his team on the aforementioned plateau. In constant danger from carnivorous monsters (as well as flesh-eating monkey-men), the group's relationship strains have greater poignancy and the stakes seem higher all around. Where Allen's film is lulling, Hoyt's is galvanizing, but each is unique and well worth a visit. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - The Lost World
The Irwin Allen movie is a bit cheesey, but the print is good.
The silent version accompanying it is better dramatically and is very well preserved.
Rating: - Guilty Pleasure From MY Youth
Great Irwin Allen action flick from my childhood. It's funny that the bonus silent "Lost World" had better creatures--stop-motion not just lizards with add-ons. Fun overall.
Rating: - If you really have nothing to do. . . .
This has to be one of the worst movie I ever forced my way through - it fact - I could only watch about half of the movie. The actors and actresses (I use the terms quite loosely) plus the "background sets" - are all fourth rate material.
Don't bother buying this DVD. If you really want to watch it - please just rent it. Then if you want to buy it - be my guest, you are truly a better person than me.
Rating: - The Lost World
Loved both films it made movie night fun for everyone, adults and kids alike. The films contained no profanity, nudity and minimal violence.
Rating: - THE LOST WORLD
I ENJOYED THIS MOVIE VERY MUCH,ALTHO NOT AS GOOD AS JURASSIC PARK,BUT
FOR ITS TIME, THIS MOVIE WAS DONE VERY WELL.
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