Lost Continent (1951 film)

Infobox Film | name = The Lost Continent


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director = Sam Newfield
producers = Jack Leewood, Robert L. Lippert, Sigmund Neufield
writer = Orville H. Hampton, Richard H. Landau, Carol Young (story)
starring = Cesar Romero
Chick Chandler
Sid Melton
Hugh Beaumont
John Hoyt
cinematography = Jack Greenhalgh
editing = Philip Cahn
distributor = Lippert Pictures Inc.
released = December 18, 1955
runtime = 83 min
language = English
budget =
imdb_id = 0043757

"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.

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.

Production

*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".

Cast

*Cesar Romero (Major Joe Nolan)
*Hillary Brooke (Marla Stevens)
*Chick Chandler (Lieutenant Danny Wilson)
*John Hoyt (Michael Rostov)
*Acquanetta (Native girl)
*Sid Melton (Sergeant William Tatlow)
*Whit Bissell (Stanley Briggs)
*Hugh Beaumont (Robert Phillips)
*Murray Alper (Air Police Sergeant)