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The Lost World

1960Movie1 h 37 min

44

WeakGoodWatch score

44

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Summary

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.

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Critics vs audiences
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Audiences 38GoodWatch 44
IMDb5.5
Audience score20%
Running time
1 h 37 min
A typical length for adventure movies, −6 min on the typical 103
typical 10397
Half of all adventure movies run 93–120 min.
Reach
Streams in 109 countries, rent or buy in 2 more
+99
Released
1960
July 13, 1960
66 years ago
Genres
AdventureFantasyScience Fiction
Language
English
Original language
Made in
United States
Rated
No age rating yet.
Yes: its content advisories are violence, and the viewing guide lists it for kids.
What's in it
ViolenceModerate
Gore, disturbing imagesMild
Frightening scenesMild
Sex, nudityLittle or none
Dark themesMild
In white: what the content advisories name. Levels from the title analysis.
Viewing guide
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Directing · 2
Irwin Allen Director, Screenplay, Producer
Ad Schaumer Assistant Director
Writing · 2
Charles Bennett Screenplay
Arthur Conan Doyle Novel
Camera · 1
Winton C. Hoch Director of Photography
Editing · 1
Hugh S. Fowler Editor
Sound · 2
Paul Sawtell Original Music Composer
Bert Shefter Original Music Composer
Art · 5
Joseph Kish Set Decoration
Duncan Cramer Art Direction
Walter M. Scott Set Decoration
John Sturtevant Set Decoration
Walter M. Simonds Art Direction
Costume & Make-Up · 3
Paul Zastupnevich Costume Design
Helen Turpin Hairstylist
Ben Nye Makeup Artist
Visual Effects · 1
Willis H. O'Brien Visual Effects

Tropes

Stock Dinosaur ArchetypesRare · in 13 titlesArguably the Trope Maker given its release in 1925 and the first movie to show them in a good variety, the dinosaurs are mostly stereotyped as territorial and aggressive, as shown with Allosaurus, Ag…Improbable Taxonomy Skillsin 107 titlesThe explorers are able to identify the dinosaurs to the precise genus all while looking at them from a distance, despite them only having seen dino skeletons so they should not know precisely what th…All 43 tropes

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