Lippert Pictures Lost Continent is an interesting and better product than normally you might get out of this low budget studio. Basically it's a version of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World updated with the plot to include the Cold War. It also is a film that glorifies our brand new United States Air Force only a few years old at the time.
Scientists John Hoyt, Whit Bissell, and Hugh Beaumont are testing a new rocket, modifying those V-2s that the Nazis introduced before World War II ended. The thing goes completely haywire and disappears somewhere in the South Pacific.
This part of the plot completely lost me. After all the fighting in the Pacific over various islands and decisions which ones to fight for and which ones to bypass, you'd think there would be no lost islands by 1951. But apparently we and the Japanese missed this one and it's a beaut. It's got more uranium per square yard than any place on earth and a big mountain with a prehistoric plateau on which a lot of prehistoric flora and fauna still exist. And a few large dinosaurs as well.
Cesar Romero, Chick Chandler, and Sid Melton are Air Force men who take our scientists to look for the rocket and get the data from it. All six have the usual encounters with prehistoric life that one associates with films like these. It looks a whole lot like the Jurassic Park that Richard Attenborough created. The prehistoric sequences are photographed in a sepia toned green, the rest of the film is standard black and white.
When I was a kid I saw this on television in the Fifties and I still remember Sid Melton getting gored by a triceratops. Lost Continent was an exciting film back then and kids who are the age I was back then might still like this film. It's better than a lot of Lippert products, but still very hokey.
Scientists John Hoyt, Whit Bissell, and Hugh Beaumont are testing a new rocket, modifying those V-2s that the Nazis introduced before World War II ended. The thing goes completely haywire and disappears somewhere in the South Pacific.
This part of the plot completely lost me. After all the fighting in the Pacific over various islands and decisions which ones to fight for and which ones to bypass, you'd think there would be no lost islands by 1951. But apparently we and the Japanese missed this one and it's a beaut. It's got more uranium per square yard than any place on earth and a big mountain with a prehistoric plateau on which a lot of prehistoric flora and fauna still exist. And a few large dinosaurs as well.
Cesar Romero, Chick Chandler, and Sid Melton are Air Force men who take our scientists to look for the rocket and get the data from it. All six have the usual encounters with prehistoric life that one associates with films like these. It looks a whole lot like the Jurassic Park that Richard Attenborough created. The prehistoric sequences are photographed in a sepia toned green, the rest of the film is standard black and white.
When I was a kid I saw this on television in the Fifties and I still remember Sid Melton getting gored by a triceratops. Lost Continent was an exciting film back then and kids who are the age I was back then might still like this film. It's better than a lot of Lippert products, but still very hokey.