The Lost World

1925
Passed
1h 50m

IMDb RATING

6.9/10

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The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.

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The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.

Director
- Harry O. Hoyt
Writers
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Marion Fairfax
Stars

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IMDb RATING

6.9/10

YOUR RATING

Director
- Harry O. Hoyt
Writers
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Marion Fairfax
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 2 wins & 2 nominations

Prof. Challenger
(as Mr. Wallace Beery)

Bessie Love

Paula White
(as Miss Bessie Love)

Lloyd Hughes

Ed Malone
(as Mr. Lloyd Hughes)

Lewis Stone

Sir John Roxton
(as Mr. Lewis S. Stone)

Alma Bennett

Gladys Hungerford
(as Miss Alma Bennett)

Arthur Hoyt

Prof. Summerlee
(as Mr. Arthur Hoyt)

Margaret McWade

Mrs. Challenger
(as Miss Margaret McWade)

Bull Montana

Ape-man
(as Mr. Bull Montana)

Frank Finch Smiles

Austin
(as Mr. Finch Smiles)

Jules Cowles

Zambo
(as Mr. Jules Cowles)

George Bunny

Colin McArdle
(as Mr. George Bunny)

Charles Wellesley

Maj. Hibbard
(as Mr. Charles Wellsley)

Jocko the Monkey

Jocko - the Monkey
(as Jocko)

Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Mary the Chimpanzee

Mary - the Chimpanzee
(uncredited)

Malcolm Denny

Undetermined Secondary Role
(uncredited)

Virginia Brown Faire

Marquette - Half-Caste Girl
(uncredited)

Holmes Herbert

Undetermined Secondary Role
(uncredited)

Director
- Harry O. Hoyt
Writers
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Marion Fairfax
All cast & crew
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Trivia
In April 1925, on a London-Paris flight by Imperial Airways, The Lost World (1925) became the first film to be shown to airline passengers. As film stock of the era was nitrate and highly flammable, this was a risky undertaking on a wood and fabric-hulled plane, a converted WWI bomber, the Handley-Page 0 400.

Goofs
Professor Challenger travels to the Lost World to prove his claims that dinosaurs still live, yet no one on the expedition seems to have brought a camera.

Quotes
Ed Malone: Professor Challenger, I've *got* to go on this expedition! The girl I'm engaged to won't marry me until I've faced death or...

Crazy credits
Jocko [the monkey] ... by himself

Alternate versions
A longer version was released in 1925 but cut in the 1930's.

Connections
Edited into The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald: Scared Silly (1998)

Soundtracks
The Lost World
(1925) (uncredited)
Music by Rudolf Friml
Lyrics by Harry B. Smith
Published in connection with the movie

User reviews108

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Featured review

8/10

Pretty Awesome for Its Time

This was the first movie I ever taped when I got my first VCR back in the 1980's. I saw it was going to be on at 3:00 a.m., so I decided to try the programming to see it it worked. It did. I was so excited. The movie is so much fun. It has Wallace Beery as a borderline madman scientist leading an expedition to a far off island to find dinosaurs. There is a subplot of a reporter who is trying to talk him into letting him go along. There are scenes where Professor Challenger (Beery) chases and assaults this man because he hates reporters. Of course, we all know the story. They do bring back a dinosaur and it gets loose (ala King Kong) and leaves a path of destruction. The special effects are like Claymation, but one could only wonder how exciting and impressive these things were in their time. As a period piece, I urge people to see this. There are full length prints of it, not just the one some have commented on, which only shows the dinosaur scenes. If you have an open mind, you will have a lot of fun.