The Lost World (1960 film)

The lost world is a sci - fi adventure film from 1960, based on the "Professor Challenger " The novel is based Lost ( The Lost World) by Arthur Conan Doyle. Directed and produced were in the hands of Irwin Allen, who also wrote the screenplay with Charles Bennett ..

Action

Professor George Edward Challenger is not taken seriously by his colleagues at a conference in London when he speculated about a lost world in which dinosaurs could still be alive. In order to convince them of the contrary, he puts together an eight-member delegation, which breaks the headwaters of the Amazon. After they are deposited on a Hichplateau from the helicopter, soon they get into a fight with a dinosaur that destroys the helicopter and their contact with the outside world, the radio system. So they have to nunzu foot strike, hitting on other dinosaurs, giant spiders and cannibal natives in the jungle. Of those captured, she leads a native girl to an old man who shows them an escape route. Also on this they meet a dinosaur; they can bring just in time before the volcanic eruption in safety, destroyed the plateau. From a battered egg schlüpfi in London soon after, a small dinosaur.

Reviews

" The adventurous and fantastic story Arthur Conan Doyle was moved to the present and thus a lost both charm and the attraction of scientific naivete. What remains is a largely credible and often unintentionally amusing adventure film with all the clichés of the genre. "

Epilog.de calls the film and performs " the biggest disappointment in the history of dinosaur film. ": " The human protagonists are limited to leave stupid comments, and the inflated lizards seem less credible than any extra in Godzilla costume. Neither the story nor the tricks to captivate the audience. "

Special effects

The special effects are relatively simple, but extremely effective and convincing. Thus, for example, Slow - macro shots used by small lizards, where miniature horns and fins, etc., were attached. Film scholars refer to this methodology as Slurpasaur technique. ( This technique was first used by David Wark Griffith in the movie Brute Force from 1914. )

Influences

Irwin Allen used raw material for this film episodes of his numerous TV series - eg Land of the Giants, Lost in Space, Time Tunnel, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, etc. In 1966 Allen to also market the lost world as a television series, but without success.

1960 in film Charles Bennett (screenwriter) Film score Paul Sawtell Winton Hoch Ian Wolfe The Lost World (Conan Doyle novel) Cultural depictions of dinosaurs
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