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starring: Virginia Grey, Phillip Reed, Richard Denning, Barton MacLane, Dick Wesseldirected by: Jack Bernhard
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786305341062
Format: Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6305341060
Label: Image Entertainment
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Release Date: April 27, 1999
Running Time: 76 minutes
Sales Rank: 52704
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: October 15, 1948
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Description:
Almost 50 years before 'Jurassic Park...' an amateur photographer, his fiancee and their companions take a perilous journey to a place where dinosaurs, giant sloths and other prehistoric creatures thrive. Filmed in vibrant Cinecolor at a time when many movies were confined to black and white and featuring eye-popping special effects, 'Unknown Island,' directed by Jack Bernhard, offers a thrilling look at modern man's confrontation with the primordial past.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Unknown Island
Dinosaurs and bad special effects.... It's a laugh a minute. Buy it! You'll like it!
Rating:  - Clasic Cheapo Dino Film
A classic cheapo dinosaur movie with guys in rubber suits that sometimes look pretty cool, but often pretty crappy. The plot is thin, the script is not too swift, and the acting is campy and melodramatic at best. Plus, the color does look more like two-strip Technicolor than an actual modern color process. Yet, despite all this, the movie is good, dopey fun, and a must-see for any connoisseurs of dino movies, rubber suit monsters, or 50s pseudo sci-fi. While not nearly as good as The Land Unknown, ... Read More
Rating: - A really fun island/jungle adventure!
I really enjoyed this film, although I never saw it in my youth. It was shot in Cinecolor which, I think, must have been a "two-strip" process. As a result you see a lot of cheesy pastels but the skin tones are great. Now granted, the monsters are pretty hokey in this one and it's clear that the "beach" is a studio one... but, somehow, I still liked it. This flick is sort of a King Kong rip-off with no central monster to love or to hate. So, the principals shoot at darn near every one that they see. There ... Read More
Rating: - A little gem from the past
They sure dont make movies like this anymore,, and if they did, it would be
pretty hard to secure a budget... Im glad that they did make these movies, as
they were our source of entertainment. I would rather see cheap monster
movies than gangster or war movies that were all the rage in the 60's.
There were much better creature movies out there, but only this one had
those weird dinosaurs. I just got the DvD version, and again am i pleased
with the quality, the color, ... Read More
Rating: - Great nostalgia....
"Unknown Island"....Not as awesome or frightening as when I first saw it as an 8-year old in 1948 at the Centro Theatre on 77th and Central in South Central Los Angeles....but well worth the few bucks I paid for this treasure of memories.
johnnie
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