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starring: James Arness, Kasey Rogers, Bill Kennedy, Gloria Petroff, Pierre Watkindirected by: Norman Dawn
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9786305473428
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 6305473420
Label: Image Entertainment
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Academy Ratio
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Release Date: July 20, 1999
Running Time: 61 minutes
Sales Rank: 24591
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: January 05, 1951
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Description:
Prehistoric, primitive, primeval monsters of 100,000,000 years ago...alive again today! Maddened mastodons fight for savage women! Spectacular wondrous earth-shaking adventures as man battles monster in the screen's most awesome spectacle! Beyond imagination...the weird sloth, giant congorillas, poisonous lizards, venom vultures! James Arness (The Thing) stars as the heroic Captain Kirk Hamilton, the man shipwrecked on
the island that time forgot.
Amazon.com:
Unable to decide whether to make a pirate movie, a Western, or a dinosaur flick, director Norman Dawn decided to make all three at once. It's 1830 and the clipper ship Hamilton Queen is leaving New England for the East Indies. James Arness in his pre-Gunsmoke days stars as Kirk Hamilton, the son of the ship's owner who is there to tell the captain what to do, like go through the pirate-infested waters to cut a day off their schedule. When the pirates attack, Kirk is seriously injured, so they drop him off on an island near Australia to heal. The movie slips into 'Western' mode when he helps the townsfolk form an American-styled militia to protect them from the pirates (and gets involved in a love triangle). Then the pirates return to steal some women, so Kirk and company chase after them and get shipwrecked on an island full of dinosaurs. Some might say this plot was just an excuse to use whatever stock footage was sitting around. Who cares? This movie gives a great look back at what low-budget filmmaking was like in 1950. Plus, the narration that glues the disparate scenes together is as overstated, flowery and entertaining as any narration from an Ed Wood film. Though only 61 minutes long, Two Lost Worlds is honest camp and pure pleasure. --Andy Spletzer
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Truly awful
I'm a serious fan of the cheesiest old black-and-white monster flicks. I typically sort my lists starting from the cheapest - and so when this one popped up, I bought it. OK, you get what you pay for. Awful. Awful. Awful. Or maybe just boring, boring boring. Where are the dinosaurs? Where is the 'spectacle'. Basically a pseudo western soap opera of the TV kind - that just happens to have James Arness lurking somewhere in the cast (definitely not 'starring'). I tried to give it No Stars ... Read More
Rating: - two dumb cheap plain worlds
boat goes to sea, gets pirated, wins, lands on australia-world1-ok but brief borin land scene, then gets land pirated by same ones, then chased to sea, loses and lands on world 2-no spitting monster vultures or anything but a croc w/ a fin who bit a gila monster-((stock footage from other film-1 mil. b.c. which was on tv recent by surprise free and better because it was unedited)), then back to this pic,-volcano caused lizard & croc jumping, 2 secs of neat but cheap special fx on volcano smoke ... Read More
Rating:  - What the...? A spliced-up bit of ham, barely coherent
Wow. Gathering together miles of stock footage, using leftover sets and costumes, and with a narrator whose dialogue HAD to be written by Ed Wood (c'mon, NO ONE else could write like that!), this is one of the most stupefying flicks I've ever come across. The "clipper ship" has the most Freudian bowsprit I've ever seen (certainly nothing like those actually USED), but don't worry - nothing stays on screen for more than a couple of minutes. The pace is downright frantic - clipper ship, pirates, battle, ... Read More
Rating: - Really Lost
I purchased this movie based on it's title and because James Arness was in it. The title sounded good and I have seen James in a number of movies from the 50's (e.g., The Thing, and THEM) so how could I go wrong. Well - the movie starts out slow, drags in the middle, and the prehistoric creatures (a couple of big lizards) don't even show up until the end of the movie. It will be hard for me to watch this one twice.
Rating: - TWO LOST WORLDS DVD
Before making a career out of the TV show "Gunsmoke," James Arness appeared in a series of classic 1950s science fiction films, including THEM!, THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD, and INVADERS FROM MARS. TWO LOST WORLDS, an unfortunate mess, was not one of them.
TWO LOST WORLDS tries to be too many things at the same time; it has pirates, ranchers, melodramatic lovers, and intensely annoying "cute" characters like Salty, a dreadful walking stereotype who's supposed to provide comic relief. No one ... Read More
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