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The Lost World (1960)

The Lost World poster
Directed by
Irwin Allen
Genre
fantasy film, adventure film, science fiction film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 37m
Rated
12
Rating
5.8 of 10 from 115 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A group of explorers travels to a remote plateau in Venezuela. They find a land filled with prehistoric animals and dangerous plants.

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What happens

The Lost World is a 1960 American fantasy adventure film directed by Irwin Allen, loosely based on the 1912 novel of the same name by Arthur Conan Doyle. Shot in De Luxe Color and CinemaScope, the film's plot revolves around the exploration of a plateau in Venezuela inhabited by cannibals, dinosaurs, carnivorous plants, and giant spiders. The cast includes Claude Rains, David Hedison, Fernando Lamas, Jill St. John, and Michael Rennie. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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