Lost Continent
by Sam Newfield
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Actor: Acquanetta, Cesar Romero, Chick Chandler, Hillary Brooke, John HoytDirector: Sam Newfield
Brand: Image Entertainment
Cinematographer: Jack Greenhalgh
Editor: Philip Cahn
Producer: Jack Leewood
Producer: Robert L. Lippert
Producer: Sigmund Neufeld
Writer: Carroll Young
Writer: Orville H. Hampton
Writer: Richard H. Landau
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 83 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-12-04
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Image Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Lost Continent
Movie Review: It's Great for its time...
Summary: 5 Stars
My favorite sci-fi movie, in fact my FAVORITE MOVIE. Why? It had a limited budget but with special effects including stop-motion animation and a "cheesy" theme. An atom-powered rocket...stock footage of a V-2 rocket taking off from White Sands in the early fifties...a 1941-vintage battleship (Arizona Class) with two main masts as a research vessel in the Pacific code-named "Neptune". "Top of the World" was a radar unit inside a mobile vehicle. Then why is it so good a movie?
It is pure escapism. The movie's musical score is riveting. The special effects, though limited, are state-of-the-art for 1951. There are no "gila monsters" substituting for dinosaurs except for one scene near the top of the "lost continent" about 25 minutes into the movie. The Brontosaurus and Triceratops look decent for what was thought of as their appearance in the fifties.
Cesar Romero (the Joker in 1966-1967 "Batman" as well as numerous thirties-forties movies), Chick Chandler, Hugh Beaumont (Beaver's father), John Hoyt ("When Worlds Collide", "Time Travelers" in 1964, "X-The Man With X-Ray Eyes" and Twilight Zone episodes), Hugh Bissell (1956 "Invasion of the Body Snatchers") and Sid Melton ("Danny Thomas Show" and "Atomic Submarine") provide credible acting to the movie.
Why Hillary Brooke and Aquanetta were given higher credit is a mystery to me than some of these actors mentioned, above. Nonetheless, this movie is the ONE movie I have seen 100+ times and never get tired of watching.
Unfortunately the DVD master has "light bars" through some of the sequences but that does not deter from my memories of making this the greatest movie of my life.
My only complaint is that I wish they could find a better master copy...
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