Unknown Island (1948)

A motley group of adventurers (Richard Denning, Virginia Grey, Barton MacLane, Phillip Reed) search out an unchartered island where prehistoric animals still exist. Directed by Jack Bernhard, this is a tacky low budget precursor to JURASSIC PARK with a little bit of KING KONG tossed in. Instead of the Ray Harryhausen stop motion technique which would have been cost prohibitive, we get rubber dinosaurs and men in gorilla suits. It's purely a sound stage jungle and desert island with lots of process shots and backdrops. It was filmed in the ugly CineColor process which gives the film the look of a colorized film though, to be fair, it might have been the condition of the transfer I watched. Still, it's amusing in its cheesy "B" movie way.