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The Lost World (Special Edition) - 1960 & 1925 versions |  | Director: Irwin Allen
Actors: Michael Rennie, Jill St. John, David Hedison, Claude Rains, Fernando Lamas
Studio: Fox Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Rating:  45 reviews
Format: Anamorphic, Black & White, Color, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 2
Running Time: 172 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: FOXD2245965D
UPC: 024543459651
EAN: 0024543459651
Theatrical Release Date: July 13, 1960
Release Date: September 11, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 09/11/2007 Run time: 197 minutes Rating: Nr
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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
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Love this classic! November 22, 2009
Old Fan (Corvallis, Oregon United States)
This movie was one of my most favorite movies to watch when I was a child. I just love putting it on and letting it take me back in time. I had a little toy helicopter I flew around the rooms of my house from one potted plant to another pretending it was the chopper in the movie and the plants were jungle. Nostogia at it's best for this ole fan.
 Highly entertaining March 4, 2009
Katherine E. Warwick
The lost world is just a fun movie to watch. It is a fun adventure movie .
Leapin' Lizards! February 8, 2009
Mr. Richard D. Coreno (Berea, Ohio USA)
The 2-for-1 includes the 1960 and 1925 silent film versions of the iconic story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about an area in the Amazon rain forest where dinosaurs still roam and riches could be had for those who can make it out alive.
Director Irwin Allen handles the 1960 version, which is short on special effects, but has a solid cast: Claude Rains and Michael Rennie portraying anthropologists Prof. George E. Challenger and Lord John Roxton, respectively, David Hedison as newspaper reporter Ed Malone and Jill St. John as Jennifer Holmes, the daughter of a top newspaper executive.
Challenger is in pursuit of the mysterious surrounding the land that takes the world back to millions of years ago, while Roxton is snooping around for clues concerning the mysterious disappearance of a great explorer. And their lives get real difficult when they become stranded in this land of man-eaters. The film placed fifth in the Top Action Drama category for the 1961 Laurel Awards, which were published in Motion Picture Exhibitor magazine.
The silent film is a nice gem and features the genius of Willis O. Brien with special effects. The bonus material brings unique focus on Brien's cutting-edge work.
There are leapin' lizards and creepin' villagers and the set is a nice look into the Hollywood vision of the Sci-Fi genre from different signposts over the years.
 OK But Not Good. January 18, 2009
Roberto Vitale (Orlando, FL USA)
Unfortunately, the movie opened with a comic relive sequence. This effectively reset the viewer's expectation from sci-fi to comedy. It has a good underline premise, but the movie moved along unevenly, like if looking for a theme or identity. It is ok, but you would not look forward to see it again.
us oldsters gotta love those old saturday matimees December 27, 2008
Edward A. Schatz (lakewood, california)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
After reading all the review's pro and cons, I remember this film from my youth, and remember the hawking and badgering to get my parents to let me stay up late many a night to watch this over and over. Guess what, I still gratuitously enjoy it. Along with it's counterpart, JTTCOTE, and the Harryhausen films that made our youth. We didn't have the computer aided effects and the million man staffs, what we did have is something this generation has lost, imagination, sorry, it's true. Their little minds just cannot fathom having to fill things in. Four thumbs up, uh, use your imagination if you dare!
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