The explorers then make preparations to live on the plateau potentially indefinitely. Suddenly, a Tyrannosaurus attacks and kills the Agathaumas, along with an unfortunate Pteranodon. Meanwhile, an Agathaumas is attacked by the Allosaurus, and gores it to death. Roxton succeeds in shooting the apeman, but the creature is merely wounded and escapes before he can finish him off. Convinced that the camp is not safe, Ed climbs a tree to look for a new location, but is attacked by the apeman. It is finally driven off by Ed who tosses a torch into its mouth. Eventually, the Allosaurus makes its way to the campsite and attacks the exploration party. The Allosaurus then attacks, and is driven off by a Triceratops. An Allosaurus attacks a Trachodon, and knocks it into a bog. The explorers witness various life-and-death struggles between the prehistoric beasts of the plateau. Leaving Zambo and Austin at the camp, they cross a chasm onto the plateau by cutting down a tree and using it as a bridge, but it is knocked over by a Brontosaurus, leaving them trapped. As the crew look up to see their attacker, Challenger spies overhead a Pteranodon (mistakenly calling it a Pterodactylus) killing and eating a young Toxodon which proves that the statements in Maple White's diary are true. Professor Challenger, Paula White, sportsman Sir John Roxton, news reporter Edward Malone (who is a friend of Roxton and wishes to go on the expedition to impress his fiancée), a skeptical professor Summerlee, an Indian servant Zambo, and Challenger's butler Austin leave for the plateau.Īt their campsite at the base of the plateau, the explorers are shocked when a large rock falls, sent their way by an Apeman perched on top of an overhead ledge. Met with ridicule at an academic meeting at the Zoological Hall, Challenger reluctantly accepts a newspaper's offer to finance a mission to rescue Maple White. The journal features sketches of dinosaurs which is enough proof for Challenger to publicly announce that dinosaurs still walk the earth. PLAY reconstructed and restored copy of 1925 film runtime 01:32:38 with modern (2001) closing credits added.įrom a lost expedition to a plateau in the borders of Peru, Brazil and Colombia, Paula White brings the journal of her father, explorer Maple White, to the eccentric Professor Challenger in London. Because of its age the film is in the public domain, and can be legally downloaded online. In 1998, The Lost World was deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. Doyle appears in a frontispiece to the film, absent from some extant prints. Hoyt and featured pioneering stop motion special effects by Willis O'Brien, a forerunner of his work on the original King Kong. The film was produced and distributed by First National Pictures, a major Hollywood studio at the time, and stars Wallace Beery as Professor Challenger. The Lost World is a 1925 American silent fantasy giant monster adventure film adapted from Arthur Conan Doyle's 1912 novel of the same name.
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