Lost Continent (1951 film)

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The Lost Continent
Directed by	Sam Newfield
Written by	Orville H. Hampton, Richard H. Landau, Carol Young (story)
Starring	Cesar Romero Chick Chandler Sid Melton Hugh Beaumont John Hoyt
Cinematography	Jack Greenhalgh
Editing by	Philip Cahn
Distributed by	Lippert Pictures Inc.
Release date(s)	August 17, 1951 December 18, 1955
Running time	83 min
Language	English
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The Lost Continent (1951) is a science fiction film, starring Cesar Romero and Chick Chandler. It was directed by Sam Newfield. This independent film was only shot in eleven days, on a low budget. The footage on the plateau where the dinosaurs lived was printed with green tinting.

[edit] Plot

Major Joe Nolan (Romero) is the head of a rescue mission to the South Pacific to retrieve an atomic rocket that vanished. Their plane crashes on a remote tropical island. They find a lone native girl (Acquanetta) who indicates something fell from the sky onto a forbidding plateau which dominates part of the island. The expeditioners reach the top despite numerous obstacles, and discover a lush jungle inhabited by dinosaurs. Some die during the climb, others are killed by the presumed-extinct animal life, but two return to the flatland with a critical component of the rocket, and escape, along with the island girl, as a dormant volcano erupts and destroys the island utterly, plateau, dinosaurs and all.

[edit] Trivia

• The film contains rocket-takeoff footage from Rocketship X-M (1950).
• The film was mocked on a 1990 episode of the American TV program "Mystery Science Theater 3000".

[edit] Quotes

• Nolan: "Look at the size of that footprint! I've never seen anything like it before!"
• Philips: "I have. Once...in a museum."