SuperHeroBooks - The Lost World (Enhanced Edition)
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Manufacturer: Triad Productions LLC
Directed By: Harry O. Hoyt
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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0883629562483
Format: Full Screen
Label: Triad Productions LLC
Manufacturer: Triad Productions LLC
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Triad Productions LLC
Region Code: 0
Release Date: 2008-06-02
Running Time: 90
Studio: Triad Productions LLC
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Summary: Doyle...Sir Arthur Conan Doyle...A Transfer Worthy of His Masterpiece
Comment: Impeccable art work and a respectable transfer. This silent classic is a wonder to behold.
With Prehistoric Monsters and Cinematography that speaks volumes about the directors respect for the author...The Lost World is pure perfection.
Thank you Triad Productions!
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Summary: An Absolute Must Own!!!
Comment: Loved this movie. I know it's been bashed a lot by today's audiences, but you have to consider that when it was made special effects were not what they are now.
I think it's the story that counts. My two cents anyway.
In addition, what also impresses me, is that several scenes and actors reapeared in "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (series)" and other Irwin allen productions. It's great to see earlier performances as well as the inevitable stock footage Irwin and Fox used.
Especially of note are really great performances of David(Al) Hedison (later Capt. Crane in Voyage), and Ms. Marcus (the native girl) who shows up later on Voyage both as the same native girl, and also as a love interest for a ghostly u-boat captain! I think it's rather fun to see the orig. movie while picking out 'hey-that was used over there'scenes)
As I said, the story itself is good. It's entertaining,and doesn't try too hard.
I think it's worth the purchase and I'd like to see it released in widescreen format as it was originally shown. You miss some things in the regular format, but hey, it's not available in widescreen, so I'm just glad to have it at all. It hasn't been available for awhile at all.
I'd suggest you just settle down in a comfy chair and just enjoy it.
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Summary: Pre King Kong
Comment: This review pertains to the Triad Productions Enhanced Version of the 1925 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle book The Lost World.
The 1925 version is the only one that you need to own. The 1960 adaptation is not worth the film it is recorded on. I am just glad that I watched the 1925 version first.
This film has significant historical value as a pioneering film in the beginnings stages of "animatronics". In addition to that, it serves as a kind of prequel to King Kong, in both film style and in plot.
A group of people venture off to a Lost World to find dinosaurs described in a found journal. Adventure, danger, romance & conquest ensue as characters discover themselves. In the end, they try to bring one of the great Prehistoric Monsters back to England. The rest you have to see for yourself.
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Summary: A Pioneering Adventure
Comment: A non-horror movie of definite interest to horror collectors! Courtesy mainly of King Kong, Jaws and Jurassic Park, Harry Hoyt's ambitious 1925 film version of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel, The Lost World, carries some heavyweight genre lineage. Wallace Beery plays the inimitable Professor Challenger who leads an expedition to a lost land roaming with dinosaurs. Few reviewers of Steven Spielberg's abysmal Jurassic Park sequel The Lost World appear to have had sufficient-enough genre grounding to recognise any connection to its 1925 namesake, let alone the remarkable and probably (given Spielberg's admirably consistent homage to cinematic antecedents) deliberate - similarity between Spielberg's awful final act (a T-Rex rampages through San Diego) and Hoyt's (a brontosaurus rampages through London). The creative genius responsible for design of the dinosaurs in Hoyt's Lost World, Willis `O Brien, would go on to achieve genre immortality for his decidedly more sophisticated work in King Kong (1933), thus laying the ground for later horror-fantasy make-up and design legends like Ray Harryhausen (Jason and the Argonauts), Stan Winston (Jurassic Park), Rick Baker (An American Werewolf in London), Tom Savini (Friday the 13th; Dawn of the Dead), Dick Smith (The Exorcist) and H.R. Giger (Alien). Another one for your collection.
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Summary: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Famous Tale
Comment: The Lost World is a 1925 silent film adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's book of the same name. The movie stars Wallace Beery as Professor Challenger. This version was directed by Harry O. Hoyt and featured pioneering stop motion special effects by Willis O'Brien (an invaluable warm up for his work on the original King Kong directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack).
The journal of explorer Maple White is recovered from a plateau in South America featuring sketches of dinosaurs, which is enough proof for the eccentric Professor Challenger that dinosaurs still walk the earth. With that, John Roxton (sportsman), news reporter Edward Malone (whom wishes to go on the expedition to impress his fiance'), Challenger and Paula White (as well as an Indian servant, Zambo) leave for the plateau. They get onto the plateau by cutting down a tree and using it as a bridge, but it is knocked over by a brontosaurus, leaving them trapped. The explorers are shocked when they discover that a large rock has been sent their way by an ape-man perched on top of a ledge. As the crew look up to see their attacker, Challenger spies a Pteranodon (mistakenly referred to as a pterodactyl in the film) overhead and proves that the statement in Maple White's diary is true. The explorers witness various life-and-death struggles between the prehistoric beasts of the plateau. During which, an Allosaurus makes its way to the camp site and attacks the exploration party. It is finally driven off by Ed Malone who throws a burning torch into the beast's mouth. Convinced that the camp isn't safe, Ed Malone climbs a tree to search for a new location, but is attacked by the ape-man. John Roxton succeeds in shooting the ape man, but the creature is merely wounded and escapes before John can finish him off. The explorers then make preparations to live on the plateau potentially indefinitely. A catapult is constructed and a in search for Maple White, his remains are found confirming his death. It is at this time that Ed confesses his love for Paula and the two are unofficially wed. Shortly afterwards, as the paleontologists are observing a Brontosaurus, it is attacked by an allosaur and falls of the edge of the platue, becoming trapped in a mud bank. Soon afterwards, a volcano erupts, causing a mass stampede among the giant beasts of the prehistoric world. In the end, the crew is saved when Paula White's pet monkey Chico climbs a rope up the plateau and the crew climb down. As Ed makes his descent, he is again attacked by the ape-man who pulls the rope later. The ape-man is again shot, and this time killed, by Sir. John Roxton. The Brontosaurus that was pushed off the plateau had landed softly in the mud at the bottom of the plateau, and Challenger manages to bring it back to London, as he wants to put it on display. However, it escapes and causes havoc until it reaches Tower Bridge, where it's massive weight causes it to break through, into the English channel where it swims away. Challenger is morose as the creature leaves, whereas Edward Malone discovers that the love he left in London has married in his absence, allowing him and Paula to be together.
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Triad Productions brings you this 1925 silent film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's book. The movie stars Wallace Beery as Professor Challenger and was directed by Harry O. Hoyt. The film features pioneering stop motion special effects by Willis O'Brien who later imployed those same techniques in King Kong. The Plot: The journal of explorer Maple White is recovered from a plateau in South America featuring sketches of dinosaurs, which is enough proof for the eccentric Professor Challenger that dinosaurs still walk the earth. The adventure begins. This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.
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