Professor Challenger leads an expedition of scientists and adventurers to a remote plateau deep in the Amazonian jungle to verify his claim that dinosaurs still live there.Professor Challenger leads an expedition of scientists and adventurers to a remote plateau deep in the Amazonian jungle to verify his claim that dinosaurs still live there.Professor Challenger leads an expedition of scientists and adventurers to a remote plateau deep in the Amazonian jungle to verify his claim that dinosaurs still live there.
- Awards
- 1 nomination
- Jennifer Holmes
- (as Jill St.John)
- Man at Airport
- (uncredited)
- Airport Attendant
- (uncredited)
- Prof. Waldron
- (uncredited)
- Indian Chief
- (uncredited)
- Guest at Zoological Institute Forum
- (uncredited)
- Member of Zoological Institute Forum
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- Charles Bennett
- Irwin Allen
- Arthur Conan Doyle(uncredited)
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- TriviaOne of the last screen credits for Willis H. O'Brien who was the mastermind behind the special effects for the original King Kong (1933). O'Brien's input was largely restricted to hundreds of conceptual sketches for the dinosaurs. Budget limitations meant that none of them were realized on film.
- GoofsWhen the explorers encounter the dinosaur in the "Cave of Fire," the wires holding the monster upright can be seen.
- Quotes
Professor George Edward Challenger: [to the people at the Zoological Institute] I have seen these creatures with my own eyes. Curupuri. To the Indians, creatures of the supernatural. And well they might be. For we know them as gigantic creatures of the long dead Jurassic period. In other words: live dinosaurs!
- ConnectionsEdited into Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Turn Back the Clock (1964)
Eccentric Professor Challenger challenges crusty Professor Summerlee in public to go with him on an expedition to find a plateau in South America where he (claimed) he saw prehistoric dinosaurs roaming around. A motley party is assembled to make the trip consisting of a cynical aristocrat with a secret, his eye-fodder girlfriend in pink and her eye-fodder brother, the hard working reporter who fancies her, and 2 dingy latins with plenty of secrets. A couple of hours after landing they discover prehistoric dinosaurs roaming around partial to wrecking helicopters, and we discover Challenger appears rather challenged when coming to name them. Corn abounds, the special effects are worse than in 1925, every plot device is telegraphed ahead, and every racial, sexual and class stereotype is out in force but I love it just the same! At least Jill St. John didn't twist her ankle, and the sets weren't always cardboard though.
If you didn't see this when young and impressionable don't bother, however if you did and you're not a serious type it's worth a try. You still might be horrified but you might return to a lost world of safe family adventure movies.
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- Sep 29, 2007
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- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World
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- $1,515,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 37 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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