The Lost World (1925)
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The Lost World is a 1925 American science-fiction giant monster film, and the film adaptation of the eponymous Arthur Conan Doyle's novel. The Lost World is a silent film with English intertitles. The film was produced and distributed by First National Pictures. It was released to American theaters on February 2, 1925.
One of the first dinosaur movies and one of the first giant monster movies, The Lost World was made eight years before its direct successor, King Kong. It is also the first film with a giant monster destroying buildings. The film inspired some of the most popular movies in the genre, such as the original King Kong and the film adaptation of Michael Crichton's novel Jurassic Park. It started a long era of dinosaur movies in the 20th century. The film was recognized as one of the greatest movies of all time and entered the public domain in the United States in 1998.
Plot
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Amid the popular buzz of Professor Challenger claims of living dinosaurs in the Amazon, from which the general populace viewed him as a madman, reporter Ed Malone takes up the scoop and agrees to infiltrating a presentation held by the professor, who specifically barred reporters from being present. At the presentation, academics scoff and challenge Professor Challenger to provide proof, and hence some offer to take part in an expedition to a plateau in Brazil, on which famous game hunter Sir John Roxton would take part to corroborate Challenegr's claims. Ed Malone ends up offering to join the expedition, but lets the truth slip that he is a reporter, which draws the ire of Professor Challenger and the others attending, causing Ed to flee. Too angered to continue, Challenger returns to his home, only to find Malone inside. Malone continues to plead with the professor to let him come on the expedition, but the professor is too angered to listen, and attacks Malone, resulting in the two engaging in a brawl that brings them out the doors and into the sidewalk. Eventually, a policeman pulls Professor Challenger aside, and asks if Malone wishes to press charges, to which Malone refuses, admitting he intruded in the professor's house. With their fisticuff broken up, Ed mentions that he and Sir John Roxton are friends, and this is enough to persuade Challenger to accept Malone's offer.
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At their camp on the plateau during the night, the researchers witness an Allosaurus attack and kill a Trachodon, the corpse of which falls into a nearby bog. The Allosaurus feasts on it and then fights a Triceratops, protecting its young, but retreats after it stabs the Allosaurus with its horns. The Allosaurus wanders into the camp where the researchers are, but is repelled by guns and Ed throwing a torch into its mouth. It retreats to fight an Agathaumas, which kills it by goring it with its horns. Meanwhile, the apeman attempts to attack Malone when he climbs a tree to find a safer place to set camp, but Roxton shoots the anpeman out of the tree, and he retreats. Shortly after killing the Allosaurus, the Agathaumas is killed by a Tyrannosaurus rex, which also kills a Pteranodon flying nearby.
Following the encounter with the Allosaurus, Ed Malone attempts to find a new campground, climbing up a tree. The Apeman attempts to attack Malone while his guard is down, but Sir John Roxton shoots the Apeman down from the tree. Injured, the Apeman retreats over a hill.
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Staff
Staff role on the left, staff member's name on the right.
- Directed by Harry O. Hoyt
- Special effects by Willis H. O'Brien
Cast
Actor's name on the left, character played on the right.
- Bessie Love as Paula White
- Lewis Stone as Sir John Roxton
- Lloyd Hughes as Edward Malone
- Wallace Beery as Professor Challenger
- Alma Bennett as Gladys Hungerford
- Arthur Hoyt as Professor Summerlee
- Margaret McWade as Mrs. Challenger
- Bull Montana as Apeman
- Finch Smiles as Austin
- Jules Cowles as Zambo
- George Bunny as Colin McArdle
- Charles Wellsley as Major Hibbard
- Jocko as Himself
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as Himself
Appearances
Monsters
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Production
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Gallery
- Main article: The Lost World/Gallery.
Alternate titles
- Lost World (ロスト・ワールド; Japan; Elveszett világ; Hungary; Kadonnut maailma; Finland; Затерянный мир; Soviet Union; Изгубљени свет; Serbia)
- A Lost World (Un mondo perduto; Italy; En försvunnen värld; Sweden)
- Forgotten World (Vergessene Welten; Germany)
Theatrical releases
- United States - February 2, 1925; August 5, 1925
- United Kingdom - February 17, 1925
- Japan - August 5, 1925
- Ireland - October 16, 1925
- Brazil - October 23, 1925
- Denmark - October 24, 1925
- Canada - 1925
- Germany - January 1926
- Finland - January 18, 1926
- Spain - November 28, 1927
- Portugal - November 28, 1928
Video releases
DVD/VHS (restored edition 2012)
- Discs: 1
- Notes: Frequently bought with King Kong vs. Godzilla and released on May 15, 2012.[1]
Videos
| The Lost World Abridged film version(1925) |
| The Lost World Trailer |
Trivia
- Bull Montana, who played the apeman, had previously played a similar role, a gorilla with a human brain transplant in the film Go and Get It (1920).
- O'Brien later worked on another film adaptation of The Lost World in 1960.
- When the Brontosaurus walks through London, its neck support accidentally appears in one of the shots.[2]
- Scenes from this film are featured in the seventh episode of Walking with Dinosaurs, and in the fourth episode of Primeval.
External links
- The Lost World on Wikipedia
References
This is a list of references for The Lost World. These citations are used to identify the reliable sources on which this article is based. These references appear inside articles in the form of superscript numbers, which look like this: [1]
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