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In honor of Earth Day, I present you with a film that contains Germans and dinosaurs.  If that does not make you want to recycle, I do not know what will.

Granted, the film is based on an Edgar Rice Burroughs novel and the writer's heroes were always men of exceptional talents, but, by God, those were men.

Hey they're German!   :wink: 

Man, fond memories of this film. When I was a kid and my grandparents were the only people I knew who had cable, I'd keep my fingers crossed that this would be on TBS whenever I spent the weekend with them. Great review Mr. B!  :teddyr:

Thanks to technical issues or just plain bad luck, I missed this one every time it played on TBS (but almost always managed to catch At The Earth's Core, The Last Dinosaur, and The People That Time Forgot, oddly enough).  Luckily our run-down hometown video store was there to set things right with the old Video Treasures VHS.

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Lost world movies have a special place in my heart and I saw this one in the "Thuderbird drive-in" (Remember those?).
One thing you forgot to mention was that they killed the "big crocodile" with a WWI vintage MP-18 submachinegun!

I remember watching/recording this movie on TBS when it was on Super Scary Saturday.  At least I believe it was on SSS...  Being about ten at the time, I loved it!  Great dinos, lots of killing, and freakin' machine guns!  This is still somewhere on my buy list for DVD's.  I need to remember to pick it up and watch it again.  Great review!

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http://www.cryptomundo.com/bigfoot-report/sea-monster-attacks-german-submarine/

What is it with German U-Boats and Dinosaurs?

Actually, the group is British and German, with Doug McClure's character as the only (male) American.  I have always liked many of Burroughs' heroes.  They are competent and resourceful, and often completely unafraid of death.  John Carter of Barsoom might be my favorite, but I think this movie did a good job of carrying that quality to the characters on the screen.

Now I have to see this movie. Another great review!

So these people can build an oil refinery from scratch, yet can't make a water processing plant for desinfection. There were odd gaps in the training curriculum for sailors in those days.

Actually, the group is British and German, with Doug McClure's character as the only (male) American.  I have always liked many of Burroughs' heroes.  They are competent and resourceful, and often completely unafraid of death.  John Carter of Barsoom might be my favorite, but I think this movie did a good job of carrying that quality to the characters on the screen.

Yeah but when it comes to getting things done. I'll put my money on the Germans. I swear I've never met a larger bunch of humorless, work driven, disciplined, people in my life.

This was one of the first movies that I ever saw and seeing it up here brought back a lot of Saturday memories with my uncles. Great movie  :thumbup:

Sometimes a film sticks with you because of one image.  I was lucky enough to see this in a theater when I was a kid (along with People That Time Forgot), and fell in love of that one shot of the ice covered U-Boat.  The rest of the movie is fun, but it's a rare film that fells you, even momentarily, with its beauty.

Mauser? I could've sworn it was a Luger Bradley used on the Allosaurus. But then again, I'm no gun expert.

Either way, I love this movie, alongside Warlords of Atlantis. Although I think a lot of the reviewers who've tackled it in the past are a little hard on the German characters. Really, the only bad one in the lot is that jerk Dietz. He even shoots Von Schoenvorts! But I guess it's a "one rotten apple spoils the whole barrel" kind of thing.


He's the only American, period. Everyone else is either British or German. :twirl:

When they discuss the water situation I am not certain if it is so much ability or time (to create the distilling system).  I assumed the reason they needed to find a source of potable water in a hurry was their supply was low.  It only comes up when they first arrive in Caprona.  Later, once they've built the stockade, supplies are never mentioned.


I think a lot of us saw this on television years ago.  It was a staple on Channel 29's "Creature Double Feature" Saturdays back when I was a kid (late 70's, early 80's).



There are a couple of times that the party fires on dinosaurs, but I would assume some of the German rifles were meant to be Mausers.  I did not try to examine them closely.  Dietz seems like the only completely antagonistic human character.  He's quite the evil and excitable German.  I did not comment otherwise on the Germans, besides the Captain and XO.


My only question was Lisa's nationality.  I am not certain if it was ever established.

I know the stopping power of rifles in WWI and to a large extent WWII. Were some seriously high stopping power weapons. In WWI the rifle round was designed to start to spin like a saw blade once it entered the body. A typical Browing Automatic Rifle stills works better today 80 years after it was made. Than many modern rifles.
So does the M-14 with it's loner range, it's 7.62 round, and reliability in a dirty enviroment. Now they are being brought back into use since they are what is needed in Iraq. I could see them killing dinosaurs with them in certain cases. Now as far as distilling goes. Many people back then had a lot more practical skills than we do today. Many farmers knew how to distill wood alcohal. To run their tractors back in the day. Things like that. To distill wood alcohal you need to boil a certain amount of plant matter to a certain about of water (I for get how much off hand) boiled for 24 hours. I'm sure if they worked in a U-boat that it would not be impossible for them to know how to distill petro. The thing is though. As an aside. In WWI it was the German practice to give the ship a chance to surrender.
The crew was allowed to take all they wanted into the life boats. The ship sunk. And the Germans would tell the other side where to find the men in the life boats. A different world back then to be sure.   :lookingup: 

Well since it's a Luger pistol that is last to be fired into the Allosaurus by Bradley before it collapses, it appears as if (their primitive nervous systems nothwithstanding) it fires the fatal shot, so that's what I thought you meant.


She's British. When she and Von Schoenvorts are discussing biology at one point she mentions, "German metaphysics," and he replies, "British Imperialism." Anyway I thought her accent would've been a dead giveaway. :twirl:

EDIT: Speaking of Lisa and Von Schoenvorts, in the book, they know one another because they were engaged to be married (!). And also Von Schoenvorts is a real dick in the book, too, so much so that eventually one of the German crew members bayonets him because he whipped the guy in an earlier scene for accidentally hitting him.

The novel is extremely un-PC about the Germans, but I guess that's a product of when it was written. In the book, there are a lot more survivors of the sinking but the U-bout crew goes around machine-gunning them (!!!). Also in the book, Bradley and his guys are not crew of the ship that the sub sinks but rather the crew of a fishing boat that happens by and picks up Bowen and Lisa, then they board the U-boat (I forget how and why the fishing ship is sunk; I think it rams into the sub and sinks).

I saw part of "The Land That Time Forgot" on TV when I was wee, starting about when the sub enters Caprona up to the allosaur slaying, I think.  Even though she told me I'd already seen the best part, Mom rented me the VHS the next time we went to the video store and ... the entire thing was actually kind of boring.  Mom was right: that really was the best part.

Some years later, when I was 11 or 12, I stumbled across a movie called "The People That Time Forgot".  Could it be -- a sequel to that movie that should have been better than it was?  Mom outright refused to rent it.  Seems that she'd seen it back in the 70s and its wretchedness still stuck with her.  I never got to see it because that video store closed.

But, thanks to the wonders of DVD, I got both "... That Time Forgot" movies for about $10.00.  In widescreen!  Haven't watched them yet, but this review has stirred me.

Despite the low budget, this film is very entertaining. How can you not like seeing people fight green-screened handpuppets?

Saw this movie on TV can remeber the part where the pteradactyle makes munches of the caveman BURP

Deitz is portrayed by Anthony Ainley, who is best known for appearing as the Master on Doctor Who during the 1980s. Admittedly he's not easy to recognize without the goatee, but put pictures of him from the two production side by side and the resemblance pops out.