Versunkene Welt (1960)

Versunkene Welt: Directed by Irwin Allen. With Michael Rennie, Jill St. John, David Hedison, Claude Rains. 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.

“This film was shown a couple of times in the u0026quot; Saturday Night At The Movies u0026quot; slot on BBC 1 in the early 1970s and being a young child at the time I enjoyed it immensely . Come on lads if youu0026#39;re six years old any movie featuring dinosaurs in the present day is a movie highlightu003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIt goes without saying that my enthusiasim for THE LOST WORLD has waned in later life . It has a totally B movie quality to it and is rather unsophisticated . There is still some amusement to be had at the special effects . Nowadays thanks to the power of technology we can watch convincing dinosaurs thudding around but in the 1960s we had to put up with actors standing in front of some back projection pretending theyu0026#39;re frightened of a couple of giant lizards with massive fins stuck on them . Oh well at least the cheese factor means itu0026#39;s more entertaining than JURASSIC PARK: THE LOST WORLD”