Friday, November 19, 2021

The Lost World (1960)

A load of tosh but an enjoyable monster romp all the same. Professor Challenger (Claude Rains) returns from the Amazon with an amazing discovery, though not one he can prove, he has found dinosaurs atop a remote plateau! Despite official scepticism, Challenger assembles a new expedition to gain the proof. Unfortunately his team is a motley team including a sceptical scientist Summerlee (Richard Haydn), a dodgy adventurer Lord Roxton (Michael Rennie), a journalist Malone (David Hedison) and... a young woman Holmes (Jill St John) who brings her little yapping dog for an adventure to find dinosaurs!

The group find the plateau thanks to helicopter pilot Gomez (Fernando Lamas) but things soon take a turn for the worse when a dinosaur wrecks their helicopter and chases them into the jungle. Really you wonder why they were not a little more prepared. Soon things get worse as they are captured by a native tribe after finding a native girl (Vitina Marcus) and are prepared for the chop...

The plot is obvious but the film is good old fashioned adventure fun though fairly ridiculous in many ways, including the low budget "dinosaurs" which are basically large lizards with horns and plates glued to them!