Sunken world

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Movie
German title Sunken world
Original title The Lost World
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1960
length 97 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Irwin Allen
script Irwin Allen
Charles Bennett
production Irwin Allen
music Paul Sawtell
Bert Shefter
Sidney Cutner
Howard Jackson
camera Winton C. High
cut Hugh S. Fowler
occupation

The lost world is a science fiction - adventure film from 1960, which at the "Professor Challenger" - novel The Lost World ( The Lost World ) by Arthur Conan Doyle based. Direction and production were in the hands of Irwin Allen , who also wrote the script with Charles Bennett .

action

Professor George Edward Challenger is not taken seriously by his colleagues at a conference in London when he speculates about a sunken world in which dinosaurs might still live. To convince them otherwise, he puts together an eight-person delegation to set off for the headwaters of the Amazon. After being dropped off by the helicopter on a high plateau, they soon get into a fight with a dinosaur who destroys the helicopter and its contact with the outside world, the radio system. So they have to fight their way through the jungle on foot and meet other dinosaurs, giant spiders and cannibal natives. Captured by them, a native girl leads them to an old man who shows them an escape route. Here, too, they meet a dinosaur; they can get to safety just in time before the volcanic eruption that destroys the high plateau. Soon afterwards, a small dinosaur hatches from an egg that has been taken away in London.

Reviews

“The adventurous and fantastic story of Arthur Conan Doyle has been relocated to the present and has lost both its charm and the appeal of scientific naivety. What remains is a largely implausible and often involuntarily exhilarating adventure film with all the clichés of the genre. "

- Lexicon of international film

Epilog.de calls the film “the greatest disappointment in the history of the dinosaur film.” And explains : “The human protagonists limit themselves to making stupid comments, and the puffed up lizards seem less credible than any extra in Godzilla costume. Neither the story nor the tricks can captivate the audience. "

Special effects

The special effects are relatively simple, but extremely effective and convincing. So z. B. slow motion macro shots of small lizards used, on which miniature horns and fins, etc., were attached. Film scholars refer to this methodology as the Slurpasaur technique. (This technique was first used by David Wark Griffith in the 1914 film Brute Force .)

Influences

Irwin Allen used raw material from this film for episodes of his numerous TV series - e. B. Land of the Giants , Lost in Space , Time Tunnel , Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea etc. In 1966, Allen tried to market The Sunken World as a TV series, but without success.

World premieres

  • USA: July 13, 1960
  • Germany: October 14, 1960
  • Austria: November 1960

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sunken World. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.epilog.de
  3. ↑ Professor Edward Challenger III A NATURAL HISTORY OF SLURPASAURS
  4. ^ Van Hise, James (1993), Hot Blooded Dinosaur Movies , Pioneer Books, n.d., p. 157.
  5. ↑ World premieres according to IMDb