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Release year: 1960

Storyline

Professor Challenger leads an expedition of scientists and adventurers to a remote plateau deep in the Amazonian jungle to verify his claim that dinosaurs still live there.

Top credits

Directors

Irwin Allen

Writers

Cast

Michael Rennie — Lord John Roxton
Jill St. John — Jennifer Holmes
David Hedison — Ed Malone
Claude Rains — Prof. George Edward Challenger

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Did you know

• One of the last screen credits for Willis H. O'Brien who was the mastermind behind the special effects for the original King Kong (1933). O'Brien's input was largely restricted to hundreds of conceptual sketches for the dinosaurs. Budget limitations meant that none of them were realized on film.

• Scenes from The Lost World (1960) were used in the Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964) episode Turn Back the Clock (1964) (October 26, 1964). Actress Vitina Marcus reprised her role as the native girl in that episode.

• David Hedison was reluctant about making the film as he didn't think the material was any good. Seeing Jill St. John dressed in a pink outfit with a poodle on set didn't do much to make him think differently. Nevertheless, he applied himself anyway, to the extent that Irwin Allen offered him the lead in his next film, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961). Hedison turned it down but would later take a part in Allen's TV series based on the submarine film.