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Major Joe Nolan heads a rescue mission in the South Pacific to recover a downed atomic rocket. The crew crash lands on a mysterious island, and spends much time rock-climbing.Major Joe Nolan heads a rescue mission in the South Pacific to recover a downed atomic rocket. The crew crash lands on a mysterious island, and spends much time rock-climbing.Major Joe Nolan heads a rescue mission in the South Pacific to recover a downed atomic rocket. The crew crash lands on a mysterious island, and spends much time rock-climbing.
William E. Green
- Simmons
- (as William Gren)
Paul Bradley
- Officer at Proving Grounds
- (uncredited)
Ed Hinton
- Officer at Proving Grounds
- (uncredited)
Clark Howat
- Naval Captain
- (uncredited)
Chubby Johnson
- Bunker 'Suit'
- (unconfirmed)
- (uncredited)
Bert Stevens
- Officer at Proving Grounds
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- Richard H. Landau
- Carroll Young
- Orville H. Hampton(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
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Did you know
- TriviaThe 20-minute rock climbing sequence was mercilessly skewered on Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1988).
- GoofsAt approximately 32 minutes into the film, Hugh Beaumont can be seen and heard laughing in the background as one of the men is pulled up onto a ledge on the mountainside. For a moment, the actor being pulled is upside down in a humorously compromising position, which is apparently what caused Beaumont to 'lose it'.
- ConnectionsEdited from Rocketship X-M (1950)
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Pulpy Appeal, Although I Could've Used More Hillary Brooke
"Lost Continent" (1951) is a film that I used to love as a kid, but hadn't seen in over 40 years. I still remembered parts of it vividly, however, especially the gripping image of a man falling to his doom through a covering of cloud, and wondered if it would hold up all these years later. The answer: well, partly. In this one, the prototype of an atomic rocket crashlands on a mountain plateau in the South Pacific, and Air Force pilot Cesar Romero is called on to ferry scientists Whit Bissell, John Hoyt and Hugh Beaumont (six years pre-"Beaver") to the site, along with a few others. After a protracted but nonetheless suspenseful climb up the steep mountainside, which the band accomplishes with only ropes (and no pitons or carabiners!)--a climb that takes up more than 1/3 of the picture--our heroes make it to the top and discover a suddenly green-tinted world, populated with prehistoric critters. Although the switch from B&W to that greenish hue IS pretty nifty, it must be said that these dinosaurs are brought to life by the filmmakers using what might be the lamest stop-motion photography ever committed to film; 1925's "The Lost World" did a better job at this! Still, cheaply put together as it is, "Lost Continent" is mighty fun to watch, mainly because the leads are so appealing and convincing. The presences of yummy '50s gals Hillary Brooke and Acquanetta in bit roles doesn't hurt, either. Although the dinosaurs-on-an-island bit had been better handled three years earlier in "Unknown Island," and the notion of going after a crashlanded rocket over dangerous terrain would be dealt with infinitely better in 1968's "Ice Station Zebra" (and even in the 1963 Bob Hope comedy "Call Me Bwana"), this film still has a pulpy appeal that manages to strike a chord in me 40 years later. Watch it with the kiddies one night. Oh...nice-looking print on the DVD that I just watched, too!
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- Oct 29, 2007
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- Затерянный континент
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- Runtime1 hour 23 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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