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Summary: Lost World
Review: A weak script and tepid direction derail THE LOST WORLD before it has the chance to leave the station. About the only reason to rent this one is for the chance to see a youngish Wallace Beery in a fright wig and Bolshevik beard and a stop-action animated brontosaurus stomping through downtown London. Director Harry Hoyt may have established the tradition of welding a weak story to a special effects spectacle and hoping for the best. Pass this one by unless you're interested in pioneering special effects.
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Summary: Lost World
Review: A weak script and tepid direction derail THE LOST WORLD before it has the chance to leave the station. About the only reason to rent this one is for the chance to see a youngish Wallace Beery in a fright wig and Bolshevik beard and a stop-action animated brontosaurus stomping through downtown London. Director Harry Hoyt may have established the tradition of welding a weak story to a special effects spectacle and hoping for the best. Pass this one by unless you're interested in pioneering special effects.
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Summary: Good Golly You Missed, Molly
Review: It looks like Amazon hasn't been paying attention again, as usual! There was only one Lost World released in 1960. Wallace Beery, one of the stars of the 1925 silent classic, DIED 10 years before the Irwin Allen film was made. I would love to have a DVD of this Michael Rennie, Jill St. John, David Hedison, and Claude Rains masterpiece, even if produced by such a schlock company as GoodTimes. But alas, this seems not to be. GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT, AMAZON!!!
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Summary: Good Golly Miss Molly.
Review: THE LOST WORLD is one of the great classics of science fiction. The film, based upon Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel inspired several remakes and the Stephen Spielberg JURASSIC PARK sequel by the same name. The film tells the story of a professor who leads a group into the Amazon to prove his claims that dinosaurs still exist. Along the way, they capture a brontosaurus and bring it back to London. But the beast escapes and wrecks havoc on the city. The film is amazingly entertaining for a silent science fiction film and as [inexpensive] as this DVD was, the print is an excellent copy. This DVD was part of the Dinosaur Mania 4-disc set I purchased for [$] at a [local] store.
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