"Two Lost Worlds", released in 1951, actually a few years after "Mighty Joe Young" which I will touch on soon stars James Arness a popular actor in sci-fi in the older days and involves his character going to Australia and falling in love with a girl only to have that girl kidnapped by pirates. He plans to get her back and after a testosterone fueled fight with the pirates and the navy who is called in for aid...they find themselves shipwrecked on an island. Guess what? it's FULL OF DINOSAURS....oooh...ahhh.
How they managed to end up on an island like that is not really explained and its probably better we don't think too hard into it. AMAZINGLY in this film we are then given LIVING dinosaurs to watch!... even if it is via camera tricks showing lizards blown up to huge sizes to represent our dinosaurs. This was a technique used mostly for TV shows with low low budgets and this was only the second time it was used on a bigger budget film here. It's truly a shame however that most lizards don't really look that much like their dinosaur ancestors....so instead we get gators with fins glued to their backs and Gila Monsters. This film in it's time was heavily advertised as a living dinosaur/giant monster movie due to these techniques but most images were reused, simply taken from another movie earlier in time. This film they were all taken from was "One Million B.C." in 1940, which reminds me Joe came out first and I forgot to put "One Million B.C." in my list!!! oh well, guess what the next blog is!? so I will keep going since this one relates to the next blog topic.
Anyway as far as this film is considered I have to say the fight scenes were pretty intense, and likely because I'm sure something died in real life....aah the years before animal protection acts. The acting was one of the better things in this film and make up for some of its terribleness. Unfortunately I could not find a trailer to grace your eyes with so you will have to be sad you missed its glory *cough* yea right *cough* =(
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