Lost Continent (1951 film)
- This article is about a 1951 film. For other uses, see The Lost Continent.
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| Directed by | Sam Newfield |
| Written by | Orville H. Hampton, Richard H. Landau, Carol Young (story) |
| Starring | Cesar Romero Hillary Brooke Chick Chandler Sid Melton Hugh Beaumont John Hoyt |
| Cinematography | Jack Greenhalgh |
| Editing by | Philip Cahn |
| Distributed by | Lippert Pictures Inc. |
| Release date(s) |  August 17, 1951 December 18, 1955 |
| Running time | 83 min |
| Language | English |
The Lost Continent (1951) is an American science fiction film, starring Cesar Romero and Hillary Brooke, directed by Sam Newfield and produced by his brother Sigmund Neufeld. This low-budget independent film was shot in 11 days. The footage on the plateau where the dinosaurs lived was printed with green tinting. The plot strongly resembles that of Arthur Conan Doyle's novel, The Lost World. This film, Rocketship X-M (1950)--from which the rocket launch footage was taken--and Robot Monster (1953), which reused footage from this film, were all mocked on the American TV program Mystery Science Theater 3000.
This film is generally considered to be one of the best in the 40-year-plus career of director Sam Newfield.
[edit] Plot
Maj. Joe Nolan (Romero) is the head of a mission to the South Pacific to retrieve an atomic rocket that vanished. Their plane crashes on a remote tropical island. They find a lone native girl (Acquanetta) who indicates something fell from the sky onto a forbidding plateau that dominates part of the island. The party reaches the top despite numerous obstacles as viewers are subjected to long stretches of rock climbing (almost 20 minutes in all), and discovers a lush jungle inhabited by dinosaurs. One of their party dies during the climb, another is killed by the presumed-extinct animal life, but four return to the flatland with a critical component of the rocket and escape as a dormant volcano erupts and destroys the island utterly--plateau, dinosaurs and all.
[edit] Cast
- Cesar Romero (Major Joe Nolan)
- Hillary Brooke (Marla Stevens)
- Chick Chandler (Lt. Danny Wilson)
- John Hoyt (Michael Rostov)
- Acquanetta (Native girl)
- Sid Melton (Sgt. William Tatlow)
- Whit Bissell (Stanley Briggs)
- Hugh Beaumont (Robert Phillips)
- Murray Alper (Air Police Sergeant)
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