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The Lost World

The Lost World

Adventure · Fantasy · Drama · 1925

The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.

Movie details

The Lost World

“Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Stupendous Story”

1925 Adventure · Fantasy · Drama 1h 44m

Critical arithmetic

The consensus, allegedly.

IMDb

6.9 / 10

6.2K votes

Rotten Tomatoes

100 %

Tomatometer

TMDB

6.7 / 10

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The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.

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The Lost World

The Lost World

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This Lost World is a splendid BBC TV dramatisation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous adventure story. Bob Hoskins makes an unusually genial Professor Challenger, far less of a bully than Doyle's character, but his slightly stereotyped companions are nicely filled out by a solid cast. James Fox is Challenger's more timid but still covertly adventurous rival, Tom Ward is the moustachioed big game hunter who faces an Allosaurus with an elephant gun, and Matthew Rhys plays the tagalong reporter hoping to impress his faithless fiancée.

The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Harry O. Hoyt

Written by

Marion Fairfax

Bessie Love

Bessie Love

Paula White

Lewis Stone

Lewis Stone

Sir John Roxton

Wallace Beery

Wallace Beery

Prof. Challenger

Lloyd Hughes

Lloyd Hughes

Edward E. Malone

Alma Bennett

Alma Bennett

Gladys Hungerford

Arthur Hoyt

Arthur Hoyt

Prof. Summerlee

Margaret McWade

Margaret McWade

Mrs. Challenger

Court is in session

Put The Lost World on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Arthouse Gremlin

“Its refusal to behave is the point.”

The strange choices create the kind of friction that follows you out of the theatre and into the argument.

The prosecution The Popcorn Loyalist

“Oddness is not depth.”

A film can break every rule and still leave nothing behind but the memory of how hard it tried to be singular.