Lost World

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Director Harry Hoyt's THE LOST WORLD (1925) is based on the A. Conan Doyle novel. This old film mostly circulates in a one-hour version, but when first released it was 106 minutes. In 2000, a 93 minute edition came out. There's also a George Eastman House restoration that's only 6 minutes short of the original, but it may not be available on a home video.

Although I've owned a PD copy of "Lost World" for some years, I never watched the picture until recently, perhaps because of a perception it was a kiddie film. Not really!

It's an excellent work that shows one advantage of no audio track. With sound, there's no way Wallace Beery could've played a British professor. As the role called for a vigorous man with a volatile temper, voiceless Beery was an ideal choice.

Most impressive is the attention to detail that brings miniature dinosaurs to life. Besides moving eyes and real facial expressions, chief animator Willis O'Brien also has these creatures breathing quite naturally.
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SYNOPSIS
For Prof. Challenger (Beery), an expedition deep into the jungles of South America is a chance to prove his claims of living dinosaurs aren't the rantings of a crackpot. For Paula White (Bessie Love), a previous eyewitness of these prehistoric beasts, it means a mission to rescue her father, who was left alone in dino land when guides panicked and ran, with Paula in tow. Ambitious newsman Edward Malone (Lloyd Hughes) wants to go along to report on a possible story of the century. His newspaper is funding this trip. Wealthy sportsman Sir John Roxton (Lewis Stone) is almost 60, but he thinks that by accompanying young Paula he can win her heart.

Claymation sequences are this picture's highlight. In one, there's a carnivore called an Allosaurus that twice attacks a triceratops, finally killing it and starting to feast. Later it comes upon a Brontosaurus and the two grapple. The Bronto seems to have the advantage, his mouth is on the Allo's throat, but the bigger dinosaur slips off the side of the tall plateau where they all live. It lands in a river and gets mired in mud. This unlucky Brontosaurus is later caged and brought to London.

We're told that the beast escapes captivity while the ship it's on is being unloaded (the cage gets dropped by a crane). We then see the monster roaming the streets of London. It starts walking across London Bridge, which collapses. Bronty falls into the Thames.

Sounds pretty good, yes? Well it is! A real treat for silent movie fans, yet THE LOST WORLD is so well done, I can most highly recommend it to one and all.

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