If you happen to have an “adventure seeker” for a friend you have my sympathy as this can lead to all kinds of problems, such as them never shutting up about their latest adventure, but worst of all is the possibility that they will somehow manage to get you to go along on one of…
Tag: The Lost World
Lost Continent (1951) – Review
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…
The Beast of Hollow Mountain (1956) – Review
In the subgenre of “Weird West” we have been treated to some truly fun stuff ranging from Billy the Kid Versus Dracula to Cowboys and Aliens but in the late 50s a film dealing with cowboys versus dinosaurs was released and credited as being “From an idea by Willis O’Brien” the man who created the…
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…