Rating: NR
Genre:
Adventure
Release Date: 04/03/2001
Dubbed: English
Sound: 5.1/2
Run Time: 93 Minutes
Flags: Suitable for Children
Distributor/Studio: Image Entertainment
This
adventure virtually butchers its source,
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel. But with stop-motion photography and special effects that were incredibly innovative in 1924 and 1925, who cared? These effects were the whole film, and
Wallace Beery's inspired performance was a bonus. The tale opens on reporter
Edward Malone (
Lloyd Hughes), who wants to marry
Gladys Hungerford (
Alma Bennett).
Gladys, however, only wants to marry a man of great deeds. So
Malone, having asked his editor for an adventuresome assignment, is given the task of interviewing
Professor Challenger (
Beery), who is planning an expedition to a "lost world."
Malone accompanies
Challenger and his men to South America where, on a great plateau, they find a prehistoric world occupied by dinosaurs and ape-like men. They barely escape with their lives, but they manage to bring a brontosaurus back to London. The beast breaks out and terrorizes the city before crashing through the London bridge and swimming out toward the ocean to freedom. In the midst of all this,
Malone has fallen in love with
Paula White, the daughter of an explorer (
Bessie Love). Since
Gladys, it turns out, has married a clerk,
Malone is able to wed his new sweetheart.
~ Janiss Garza, All Movie Guide
;)
