

The first half an hour is actually pretty good.

My guess is that plastic looking toy dinosaurs just don't age very well on film. Incredibly, it's a film which seems even more dated than the first adaptation, a silent, black and white movie made in 1925. The ubiquitous Harry Alan Towers was a man devoted to turning a profit on ultra-low budget B-movies and THE LOST WORLD is his attempt at the classic Conan Doyle novel. Still the dialog with Rhys-Davies and Warner makes this one somewhat Park and the special effects are really cheap and not so special. Sadly this Lost World and its sequel came along around the time of Jurassic Stanford also proves useful in a part Dorothy Lamour would have done decades ago. The dinosaurs are indeed there including some suspicious natives who worship the beasts when the carnivores aren't eating them. Knows though he proves useful getting in and out of tight places. So Summerlee goes along on this secondĮxpedition and they are accompanied by photographer Tamara Gaski and youngĭarren Peter Mercer just about hitting puberty. Professor Challenger says he's been to a prehistoric Lost World in East Africa and Own time of Edwardian England and not updated. Starred Claude Rains and Richard Haydn this one is set in Arthur Conan Doyle's Summerlee in this remake of The Lost World. John Rhys-Davies and David Warner play our dueling professors Challenger and
