The boisterous, arrogant professor Challenger, a reputed biologist and anthropologist, dares the London Zoological Society to mount an expedition to verify his spectacular claim, without physical proof, that his previous expedition to the Amazonian basin found live dinosaurs. Apart from him and his 'socialite' counterpart, professor Summerlee, it consists of experienced discoverer Lord Roxbury, the young reporter Ed Malone -who got publicly struck down with Challenger's umbrella at his arrival- and Jennifer Holmes, Malone's news agency's boss's daughter, essentially as conditions for putting up the money. In Brazil they are joined by Jennifer's brother David and local 'guide' Manuel Gomez. They soon discover the dinosaurs are real and dangerous, like giant spiders, but loose their helicopter and thus are desperate for a way down from the isolated plateau. They learn Roxbury knew about the fate of Burton White, an explorer whose diary they find, thus presume to be dead, in search of diamonds, and confirmation of the local tribe being the lethal guardians of the plateau's secrets, but also get surprising help...
1960年的怪兽大片，略显拖沓，看得出投资比一众同类型B级片高出很多，剧情套路在今天的怪兽片中都有迹可循；片中的“恐龙”特效制作和地心游记采用的是同一种伎俩，都是巨蜥和鳄鱼化妆而成，看起来特廉价，但两只爬虫的大战可是毫无特技的实战，残酷异常；结尾出THE END那段，画面短暂重复了半秒钟左右
The boisterous arrogant professor Challenger a reputed biologist and anthropologist dares the London Zoological Society to mount an expedition to verify his spectacular claim without physical proof that his previous expedition to the Amazonian basin found live dinosaurs. Apart from him and his 'socialite' counterpart professor Summerlee it consists of experienced discove...
以前看的
又名宇宙洪荒，保存有空
喜欢这种科幻看片，那时的特效真的很有意思
