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To rescue his colleague who went missing on a jungle expedition and to
prove there is a plateau deep in the jungle where dinosaurs still exist,
professor Challenger (Wallace Beery), which consists of the missing
explorer's daughter Paula (Bessie Love), Malone (Lloyd Hughes), a
journalist out for a scoop, big game hunter Roxton (Lewis Stone) who's
secretly in love with Paula, and Professor Summerlee (Arthur Hoyt),
Challenger's cheif doubter. Finding the plateau and climbing up doesn't
pose too much of a challenge for our little expedition, to Challenger's
delight, they even find all sorts of dinosaurs - which seem to do little
other than to battle each other -, but then their getaway route is cut
off, and they already prepare to remain in dinosaur country forever ...
something not without its tensions, since Paula and Malone soon fall in
love with one another, much to the dismay of Roxton. Meanwhile, at the
bottom of the plateau though, Challenger's bearers haven't been idle and
have built a rope ladder long enough to reach the plateau, and they have
trained a monkey to climb up and carry the ladder with him ... and it's
about high time too, since the neighbouring volcano is about to break out
and destroy the plateau with all its dinosaurs for good. Our heroes make
it off the plateau just in time, even if an apeman (Bull Montana) tries to
prevent their escape, and once down, they even find an alive brontosaur
that has made it down the plateau as well, and they take it with them to
London to put it on display. Unfortunately though, the brontosaur isn't
interested in a future in show business, breaks loose, destroys half of
London, then makes it into the Thames to swim home ... Of
course, the plot of this film is silly and stretches believability, but in
many ways, it's a milestone film nevertheless: The story, that might sound
teribly clichéd nowadays, was amazingly fresh in 1925, the large-scale
use of (stop motion-)special effects was simply unprecedented, and the
dinosaurs in this film simply look incredibly well even from today's point
of view. Apart from that, you probably shouldn't take the film too
seriously of course - but if you don't, you'll be greatly
entertained.
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