- Actors: Wallace Beery, Bessie Love, Lloyd Hughes, Lewis Stone, Alma Bennett
- Directors: Harry O. Hoyt
- Writers: Arthur Conan Doyle, Marion Fairfax
- Producers: David H. Shepard, Earl Hudson, Jamie White, Scott MacQueen, Serge Bromberg
- Format: Black & White, Silent, NTSC
- Number of tapes: 1
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- Studio: Paradox
- VHS Release Date: Oct 1 2002
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00005ABVG
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Amazon Bestsellers Rank:
#22,120 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
- #12 in Video > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Fantasy > Lost Worlds
- #17 in Video > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Fantasy > Prehistoric
- #60 in Video > Classics > Silent Films
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Every larger-than-life creature feature, from King Kong to Godzilla to Jurassic Park, owes a debt to the original Lost World, the granddaddy of giant monster movies. Based on an adventure fantasy by Arthur Conan Doyle, it's the story of a maverick scientist (Wallace Beery, under a bushy beard) who finds a land that time forgot on a plateau deep within the South American jungles and comes back to London with a captured brontosaur to prove it. His expedition includes Bessie Love, the daughter of an explorer who disappeared on the previous expedition, and big-game hunter Lewis Stone. The ostensible stars of the picture are all upstaged by Willis O'Brien's dinosaurs, simple models brought to life with primitive stop-motion animation. Hardly realistic by any measure, these pioneering special effects are still a sight to behold, especially the lumbering brontosaur (which receives the most care from O'Brien, both foraging in his jungle and rampaging through the streets of London).
The Lost World was truncated for rerelease in the 1930s and the original negative was subsequently lost. David Shepard meticulously "rebuilt" the film using material from eight different surviving prints from all over the world, cleaning and restoring along the way. The result, which is 50 percent longer than previously extant prints, is still not complete but closer than any version since its 1925 debut. The difference is not merely in restored scenes but in a rediscovered sense of grace in scenes filled out to their original detail and pace. The film moves and breathes once again like a silent film.
The disc features the choice of an original, modern score by the Alloy Orchestra and a classic orchestral score compiled and conducted by Robert Israel (both enjoyable and effective), 13 minutes of O'Brien's animation outtakes (including a couple of isolated frames that capture O'Brien manipulating his models), and rudimentary commentary by Arthur Conan Doyle historian Roy Pilot. --Sean Axmaker
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Newly restored with fifty percent more footage than any version in seventy years, here is the model for "King Kong," "Jurassic Park" and "Godzilla." A world wide sensation when it opened on February 15, 1925, "The Lost World" is a story of living dinosaurs from the Jurassic age written by the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and starring a cast of stegosaurus, allosaurus, brontosaurus, triceratops, and pterodactyl under the technical direction of Willis H. O'Brien (King Kong, Mighty Joe Young) and a cast of actors under the direction of Harry O. Hoyt.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Wild in the streets (never trust a vegetarian),
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This review is from: Lost World, the 25 (DVD)
The eyes of the civilized world have never seen adventure and romance like this. A silent film with sound effects.Professor Challenger (Wallace Beery) comes in to the possession of Professor Whites lost diary. It was brought to him by the surviving daughter Miss Paula (Bessie Love). When he is not mangling newspaper reporters he intends to prove the story of a plateau in Brazil still harbors the descendents of dinosaurs. We see all the members of the expedition to both prove the existence of dinosaurs but also to save Paula's father. The adventure allows us to see fallen trees and dinosaur fights eight years before King Kong repeats the performance. A friendly brontosaurus nibbles at the fallen tree that was to be their escape rout. So it looks like Paula will have to learn to love Edward (Lloyd Hughes) a news paper man that endeared himself to the curmudgeon Challenger. And what is to become of Sir John Roxton (Lewis Stone) who made no secret that he also is in love with Paula? Always lurking in the background is the evil minded Ape-man (no not Tarzan) Bull Montana.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Original standard-8 version in the vaults!,
By robin (japan) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Lost World, the 25 (DVD)
I was unaware that The Lost World (1925) had been subject to so much trimming. Stored in my attic somewhere I have what must be a pretty complete print of the film, since it consists of 5 or 6 reels, running time as far as I recall was indeed 80 or 90 mins. And at least some of the 'missing scenes' mentioned by people are definitely included in the print I have (case in point - the head through the window scene is definitely in there). Wow. Must get the Image DVD and run them side by side, something new might turn up. Have to oil the projector up!! I'm not sure when my the print I have same out, but the packaging is very old, and 8mm goes back to the turn of the '30s, which is only shortly after the original revisited the splicing room. Will share my findings.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Lost World,
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This review is from: The Lost World (DVD)
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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