The Lost World

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The Lost World

1925

1h 44m

Sci-Fi

Adventure

Fantasy

Horror

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In London, professor Challenger announces that prehistoric creatures are alive and flourishing in the Amazon jungle and declares his intention to mount an expedition proving his point. Journalist Edward Malone volunteers to go and convinces his newspaper to fund the journey. Paula White hopes to find her father, a missing explorer. They and others undertake the voyage and witness dinosaurs and humanoids doing battle.

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Don Druker

Chicago Reader

06/08/2015

Harry Hoyt directed, combining incredible special effects (the monsters) and unbearable melodrama (the actors).

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Mordaunt Hall

New York Times

01/07/2008

As soon as the thrilling sequences are reached, where the explorers are seen in the supposed habitat of the living dinosauri, brontosauri, allosauri and other prehistoric monsters, there is no end of excitement.

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Nick Bradshaw

Time Out

06/24/2006

The film retains a certain naive wonderment, the story (Eurocentric as it may be) still holds up, and Wallace Beery is an inimitably hirsute Professor Challenger.

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Robert E. Sherwood

LIFE

10/07/2021

In The Lost World, as it appears on the screen, the animals have been constructed with amazing skill and fidelity and their movements, though occasionally jerky, are generally convincing.

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

10/03/2021

4/4

A sizable success in 1925, the film remains a thrilling adventure yarn.

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Alan Ng

Film Threat

02/12/2021

7/10

What's most remarkable is the quality of stop-motion animation.

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Terry

07/17/2025

This was a great performance by the Grand Feature Film Orchestra. It really brought the film to life.

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Damjan J

@Damjan Feb 27

who doesnt love old movies this was peak

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Robert C.

@RobertJCross 07/07/2025

The first dinosaur movie with awesome stop motion effects that were ahead of their time.

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Jack S

@RT58840043 01/27/2024

Notable only for the innovative early use of stop-motion dinosaur effects, this one, with the exception of a couple dinosaur-related action sequences, is otherwise slowly paced to the point of monotony. A poorly dramatized story, filled with one-dimensional characters, this version unfortunately feels longer than its brief 93-minute running time.

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Joseph D

@JRDzencelowcz 08/20/2023

If you get the chance, see the 90 minute cut, it's the best. The technical wizardry used to give life to the animals, & the world they live in is highly impressive, given the film's nearly 100yrs old, & the cast is colorful & entertaining. The music also helps breath life into the story. I'm glad this world didn't stay lost.

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David W

@Sternhammer 11/06/2022

Innovative, exciting, well written, acted and directed. The quality of the stop motion for its vintage is extraordinary. It set so many firsts and has quite literally sign posted the way for pretty much every film in this genre since. An absolute classic in every sense of the word. This was the start of adventure movies as we know them.

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Synopsis

In London, professor Challenger announces that prehistoric creatures are alive and flourishing in the Amazon jungle and declares his intention to mount an expedition proving his point. Journalist Edward Malone volunteers to go and convinces his newspaper to fund the journey. Paula White hopes to find her father, a missing explorer. They and others undertake the voyage and witness dinosaurs and humanoids doing battle.

Director: Harry O. Hoyt
Producer: Earl Hudson, David Shepard, Scott MacQueen
Screenwriter: Arthur Conan Doyle, Marion Fairfax
Distributor: First National Pictures Inc., Milestone Film & Video, Grapevine Video
Production Co: First National Pictures
Genre: Sci-Fi, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 22, 1925, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 1, 2016
Runtime: 1h 44m