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The Lost World (1925)

02/02/1925Adventure, Fantasy, Drama1h 44m
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Stupendous Story

Overview

The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Bessie Love

    Paula White

  2. Cast 1

    Lewis Stone

    Sir John Roxton

  3. Cast 1

    Wallace Beery

    Prof. Challenger

  4. Cast 1

    Lloyd Hughes

    Edward E. Malone

  5. Cast 1

    Alma Bennett

    Gladys Hungerford

  6. Cast 1

    Arthur Hoyt

    Prof. Summerlee

  7. Cast 1

    Margaret McWade

    Mrs. Challenger

  8. Cast 1

    Bull Montana

    Ape Man

  9. Frank Finch Smiles

    Challengers Diener

Wallace Beery is the rather eccentric "Prof. Challenger" - an eminent explorer who tries to convince his justifiably sceptical peers of a plateau in the Amazonian jungle where there be dinosaurs... Derided and ridiculed, he secures some funding from "Sir John Roxton" (Lewis Stone), assembles a team and back they go - promising to return with proof positive. The acting is adequate - that's not what matters, really - it's the wonderful and fluent actions of the stop motion photography that makes the stand out. These effects are superb. Basic, sure, and the scale of the sets around them isn't lik...