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Harry O. HoytThe Lost World (1925)

The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page.


This movie is part of the collection: Feature Films

Director: Harry O. Hoyt
Producer: Jamie White
Production Company: First National Pictures Inc.
Audio/Visual: sound, b&w (tinted)
Keywords: adventure; fantasy

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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Reviewer: HansMadson - - October 30, 2008
Subject: Download
I can´t download the movie
how can I download the movie?

Reviewer: billwest - - March 8, 2008
Subject: viewing
Terrific , exactly what so many others saw, where King Kong came from. Great

Reviewer: robcat2075 - - December 14, 2007
Subject: The music
It's been a while since I watched this but music at the beginning is Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 8 ("Unfinished")

This is a pretty good silent movie, but the "drop the needle" music score doesn't do well for it. And of course that musical recording is not public domain so I don't know why it's even here.

I understand what we have of this movie today is missing quite a bit of footage.

Reviewer: Deacon Batista - - December 9, 2007
Subject: Music in the Film
The film is great, really. But does everyone one know the classical music tracks in it by name?

Reviewer: hillngullyrider - - December 11, 2006
Subject: Great movie
Not to repeat what has been said: this is a great movie. The effects are top notch, not to be matched until Harrhausen thirty years later. Something to try just for fun: download, it burn it, and play it at double speed. It really ziaps up the action, and still leaves the dialogue readable.

Reviewer: hudgeliberal - - July 7, 2006
Subject: Amazing effects for that time period
I have to give this film 5 stars for the effects alone. Absolutely amazing stop motion/claymation photography! Anyone who is the forefather to the great Ray Harryhausen has to be a genius. If you have never heard of Ray,check out the sinbad movies of the 60's and 70's,Jason and the Argonauts,and several other sci-fi classics. You will be in for a treat. I miss those type of effects in the movies,I think they were actually more amazing than todays computer generated variety. Just something about the way Rays creatures moved..like you picture it moving in your mind. Todays almost seem to real and that takes away that "monster" effect. Just my opinion.

Reviewer: Movie_Loving_Chick_from_MN - - May 1, 2006
Subject: Lost in a Lost World
OK...so this is the silent version of the Conan Doyle novel (same guy that created Sherlock Holmes). Pretty faithful to the novel...Wallace Beery (forever famous as Long John Silver in 1934's classic adaptation of TREASURE ISLAND---a film in which he ALSO co-stars with Lewis Stone who was Nayland Smith to Karloff's Fu Manchu and Dad to Mickey Rooney's Andy Hardy...and just to give us another connection to Sherlock Holmes you'll see Nigel Bruce--Rathbone's Watson---as Squire Trelawney in that film as well) and where WAS I? Oh yeah...Wallace Beery...pretty good here as Professor Challenger. Not sure what Bessie Love is doing in this (there is no girl in the book. But, then, there's no girl in H. Rider Haggard's KING SOLOMON'S MINES either but we have managed to put up with Anna Lee and Deborah Kerr and Sharon Stone in the various film adaptations of THAT---it's just one of those Hollywood things---throw in a girl to spice it up.

Oh, as to Spielberg "stealing the title" for his sequel to Jurassic Park...he didn't. Michael Crichton (who wrote both the books) used it intentionally as a tribute to Conan Doyle's classic and even included a character named "Roxton" in the book.

Reviewer: terracesider - - December 9, 2005
Subject: One of the greats.
The quality of the print is indeed not good but it's not bad either. It's easy to see how the astonishing special effects later inspired Harryhausen. The acting is a marvellous demonstration of the dramatic heights which could be scaled in within the confines of silent movies.

Just sit back and enjoy, then ask yourself, has film making really improved much over the lasst 80 years?

Reviewer: manavkaushik - - November 25, 2005
Subject: WORTH A WATCH
Wow! So this is here! A film worth watching.

Harry Hoyt took full seven years to finish this film. This is the film in which back projection was first employed successfully by the director for a single scene.

The Lost Word is also famous as the first in-flight movie which was shown during a scheduled Imperial Airways flight from London to the Continent in April 1925.

And may I add here that Mr. Bull Montana who appeared as an ape-man used to undergo a marathon make-up job every time he had to shoot for this film. He used to sit for more than 4 hours for his make-up.

The quality of the film is not very great but one canÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂt expect real good results when film belongs to a vintage vault. Watch it. It has good score, good performances. ENJOY !!

Reviewer: JodyValyou - - August 5, 2005
Subject: ONE OF THE GREATEST UNKNOWN FILMS OF ALL TIME
If you are familar with "KING KONG", then you have seen, some of the Dinosaur scenes form this movie. Created by the great "Wilis O'Brien", who would later teach "Ray Harryhausen" the tricks of early movie magic. This is one of the "GREATEST LOST CLASSICS OF ALL TIME". It's worth a look, just for the great early special effects. A film ahead of it's time for being released in 1925.
"BE SURE TO SEE THE FILM THAT STARTED IT ALL"

Reviewer: Jah Gussi - - July 7, 2005
Subject: The Lost review
This is great before I even get to view the flick I've lost a review. When I first arrived here there was two reviews then I logged in and refreshed the page but still only one review. The Lost Review may be found in The Lost World. I wonder if my review will make it up to the net or end up in The Lost World or The the the end.

Reviewer: Spuzz - - June 20, 2005
Subject: Before Jurassic Park..
Yes, there was a movie BEFORE Jurassic Park called "The Lost World" featuring dinosaurs etc. This is a fun movie (I havent actually seen the archive.org version yet though, so I can't vouch on it's quality), and it's really fun to watch and cringe on how unoriginal Spielberg is when coming up with movie titles.