The Lost World
"Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Stupendous Story"
6.8
U
1925
104 min
"Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Stupendous Story"
The small city of Tarker's Mills is startled by a series of sadistic murders. The population fears the work of a maniac, but sightings of a mysterious, hairy creature soon spread. People lock themselves up at night, but there's one boy who's still outside…
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.
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Bessie Love
Paula White
Lewis Stone
Sir John Roxton
Wallace Beery
Prof. Challenger
Lloyd Hughes
Edward E. Malone
Alma Bennett
Gladys Hungerford
Arthur Hoyt
Prof. Summerlee
Margaret McWade
Mrs. Challenger
Bull Montana
Ape Man
Frank Finch Smiles
Challengers Diener
Jules Cowles
Zambo
George Bunny
Colin McArdle
Charles Wellesley
Maj. Hibbard