Lucybespro It is a performances centric movie

SparkMore n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

SeeQuant Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

ChampDavSlim The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

JohnHowardReid Copyright 15 August 1951 by Tom Productions, Inc. U.S. release through Lippert Pictures. No recorded New York opening. San Francisco world premiere at the Paramount: 19 July 1951. U.S. release: 17 August 1951. 7,533 feet. 82 minutes. SYNOPSIS: Hunting for a lost rocket, a small party of scientists crash-lands on an unknown Pacific island. NOTES: Shooting from 13 April to 24 April 1951 COMMENT: By the humble standards of both Mr Lippert and the Neufeld Brothers, this is not too trying a little offering. On the debit side (in no particular order) are Mr Sid Melton who labors painfully to garner a few laughs from trite material; animated monsters that look like drawing-board rejects from The Lost World (1925); and a mountain peak that is obviously rooted on a film studio floor. We could also add Hillary Brooke to this side of the ledger. One of our favorite stars, Miss Brooke is treated shamefully here. True, she looks lovely, but she has only one scene. Count it! One! I'll assign Cesar Romero to neither debit nor credit. He's competent enough, but I can take him or leave him. However, I like Chick Chandler and John Hoyt, and it's always good to see Whit Bissell making out as a scientist type. Although the monsters are pretty crummy, at least three or four of the excitements are grippingly presented by director Newfield and I very much the idea of presenting all the top-of-the-mountain footage on green-tinted stock.

Prichards12345 Boy is there rock climbing in this 1951 dinosaur adventure movie. Climbing, climbing, and more climbing. That is, when there isn't trudging through jungle, jungle and more jungle on screen. They sure knew how to fill up a movie in those days...Cesar Romero (Yaaay!) leads an expedition to, er basically find a missing rocket's black box or something. That's about all the plot there is; though genre fans can savour the sight of John Hoyt (the original Doctor in a Star Trek pilot, Whit Bissel, and Aquanetta looking to pay the bills. I have a soft spot for Mr Bissel, who always showed dignity in these sorts of movies, no matter how silly they were.There are a few stop-motion dinosaurs on show - but they look to me horribly over-exposed and are probably stock footage from other movies - the actors never interact with them on camera, which is a dead give-away. Still, this movie, while full of soporific filler, is not quite in the turkey class, has a pretty decent ending, and with a better script and better defined characters might have made a decent flick. The budget probably defeated it....

skybar20-1 I hold great nostalgic affection for this film. Yes, it is no "King Kong" regarding its special effects and story, but the film's real strength is in the characters' clever bantering throughout. Some of the banter is not PC (calling women "dames", cracks about marriage, much smoking as if a cigarette company bankrolled the film) but it's still great fun. The dinosaurs don't come off well in ways more than movement. They look like cute toys. Possible SPOILER*** here. To all wondering about the missing scene with Sid Melton, it is intact in the DVD version with Cesar Romero and Hugh Beaumont sharing the cover with two battling triceratops in the background. The cover is also green. This is a great film to watch on a lazy weekend afternoon especially if the weather is bad.

john22900 SPOILER ALERT! I loved this movie when I saw it as a kid in spite of the cheesy effects sequences. The acting wasn't bad at all but the writing, especially Sid Melton's dialogue and character, should have been rewritten. His sad sack character's comic relief seems incongruous with the rest of the cast and their parts. That said, the film's actors are literally a who's who of 50's TV and B movies. The director did a pretty good job with what he had. With a slightly bigger budget, the dinosaurs could've been made to look more believable. The dinosaur movements seem jerky and abnormal. The climbing sequences are okay and do tend to generate a bit of suspense. Once they reach the top of the mountain looking for the lost rocket, things progress along rather nicely. I have seen this film in its original form and it appears that in new releases of this film, a brief sequence is missing. After the Sid Melton character is partially eaten by a triceratops, Sid, barely alive, asks Cesar Romero for a cigarette. Sid is given one and as Romero flicks his cigarette lighter, the flame dies. Talk about symbolism. That scene appears to be missing from recent releases!