Making an adventure film that plummets your cast of characters into a “Land Lost in Time” is no easy task but when given little to no money and just eleven days to produce it, well, that’s asking a lot and it makes things exponentially harder to pull off, which brings us to Lippert Pictures and…
Tag: Arthur Conan Doyle
The Lost World (1960) – Review
When one hears the name Irwin Allen the title “Master of Disaster” leaps readily to mind as he was the man behind some of the greatest disaster movies of all time, such as The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno, but before that, he was a well-respected television producer with such classic shows as Lost…
The Lost World (1925) – Review
When one thinks of author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle most will simply consider him the father of Sherlock Holmes, one of literature’s greatest detectives, but what many don’t know is that he practically birthed the dinosaur adventure genre and filmmakers like Ray Harryhausen and Steven Spielberg owe a great debt to him. Published in 1912…
Tarzan the Terrible: Edgar Rice Burroughs – Book Review
This direct sequel to Tarzan the Untamed was first published as a serial in the pulp magazine Argosy All-Story Weekly in 1921 and continues Tarzan’s adventures against Germany and his hunt for Jane.