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THE LOST WORLD (1925). This silent film, to be honest, creaks a plenty. Wallace Beery as Professer Challenger is discredited and mocked after seeing real dinosaurs, so with a new team, goes back to get real evidence. Silent films can be hard going, but this print looked nice and even a music score (From one of those 100 Films sets). The main thing, of course, are the Dinos created by Willis O'Brien (later of KING KONG)-quite impressive , even from this early period. My wife, with her talent for faces, also spotted a younger Holmes Herbert (Dr Jekyll AND MR HYDE, MARK OF THE VAMPIRE, THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD, THE GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN, THE MUMMY'S CURSE to name a few).
Also noticed that KING KONG took a lot from this-many similar plot lines. ***
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