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
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DVD Review: 50's LOST WORLD-LIKE MISFIRE IS CAMPY FUN
Summary: 3 Stars
All about a rocketship that crashes on a remote island and the guys sent out to find the craft and retrieve its 'black box' and other vital secrets. The boys fly to the last reported location of the craft but encounter engine trouble and have to crash on an island. The island just happens to be the same place where the rocket came down---nice coincidence. The pilot, played by veteran actor Cesar Romero, decides to crashland on the rocky island rather than the predominant smooth ocean waters---nice thinking, Cez. The barrelling plane comes down in a jungle with windows and fuselage intact---the guys come out looking as if they just had their nails clipped. No Ginger or Maryann on this isle, though, as they come upon a jungle girl and a chubby little kid. The kid has a conventional 50-ish American haircut---must have some pretty good barbers on the island. The jungle girl points the way to where the rocket probably landed---a dangerous mountain plateau avoided by the natives. The guys start up the rocky monolith using a novel strategy to prevent altitude sickness---by smoking a cigarette at every break. Actor Whit Bissell, with one of the most recognizable faces of the baby-boomer TV era, falls from a cliff into the foggy depths and we never see him again---but you know that he gets up and dusts himself off as he went on to omnipresence in a slew of later 50's and 60's horror/science fiction/Western films and TV shows. There is one scene where the guys have to jump over a bottomless break in the rocky path in order to get to the other side and continue their ascent. It's a tough go but they make it---hey, guys, how about taking off those heavy backpacks and tools and tossing them across first before jumping? The ascent and arrival at the top is filled with lots of the compulsory 50's B-like traisping around and muttering. Once on the plateau the film is tinted green---was hoping we'd bump into Marta or Athena here (the knockout green aliens in the original STAR TREK episode 'Whom God's Destroy' [1969] and the LOST IN SPACE TV series episode 'The Girl from the Green Dimension' [1967], respectively), but, no such luck. Romero, a very fine actor, performs splendidly under the circumstances with noir-worthy delivery and presence. At one point he suspects two of the scientists he has brought along---one played by John Hoyt (can't forget him as the selfish, wheelchair-bound millionaire in WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE, 1951) and the other by Hugh Beaumont (yep, the Beav's dad)---of collusion, planning the mishap with the rocket so that they could claim the uranium-rich but geologically volatile plateau. Romero is wrong but this would have been a much more interesting and novel plot to pursue in this film. Once on the top we see dinosaurs that appear more like toys or models than any of O'brien's or Harryhausen's work---pretty bad. One guy, Ward Cleaver (I mean, the Beav's dad) is chased by a bronto and has to climb up a tree (a scenario first depicted in the original KING KONG [1933])---nice strategy of climbing up a tree when chased by a bronto, facilitating the ravenous fury of a beast who happens to have a neck as long as the tree your climbing. You would think that after what happened to the guy in KING KONG this guy would have learned his lesson. The plateau is huge and the rocket could be anywhere, as there are no clues as to its whereabouts---nice how they just stumble into it ["...hey, there it is.."] The ship crashed nose-first into a swamp-like area---interesting how it sank to a perfect depth leaving the only external door at a level above ground just about the height of the average adult male, easily accessible to anyone except a midget. When first discovered the ship is at an angle to the ground but later seems to have miraculously straightened itself out a bit. At the end, as the mountain begins to implode and the boys scamper back down, a small boulder hits Romero on the shoulder without eliciting even a wince, an ouch, or interrupting his descent. The movie ends with Romero, sitting in a canoe, lighting up another cig---guess he'd rather go from a heart attack than starve to death or become a shark's next meal. If you look closely he seems to have stopped for a shave during his descent. By the way, the DVD's cover art features a guy to Romero's left who is never part of the original investigative party, is never on the plane, yet shows up for a few seconds as the first brontosaurous approaches---an editing miscue? A fill-in for Beaumont who was busy combing his hair? Who was this guy? Just gotta love this. No extras on the DVD but a very good print as usual from IMAGE. Have fun.
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