Lost Continent (1951)

When an atomic powered rocket is fired from a missile base in New Mexico disappears somewhere in the South Pacific, a military expedition is dispatched to find it. But when their plane crashes on an uncharted island, what they find there will astonish them. Directed by Sam Newfield, this super low budget scifi/fantasy film was shot in 11 days and looks it. If you've seen either the 1925 or 1960 film versions of THE LOST WORLD, you've pretty much seen it all before. It's a pretty tedious affair and the crude stop motion dinosaurs lack the Harryhausen magic to put it mildly. When the expedition arrives at the island's "land before time" plateau, all of a sudden everything is tinted green. I thought the film's finale of the island's earthquake was very well done and the film has a nice underscore by Paul Dunlap (THE NAKED KISS) that belies the film's B movie status. The cast includes Cesar Romero, Hugh Beaumont, John Hoyt, Whit Bissell, Sid Melton, Chick Chandler and two actresses who each have one scene apiece, Hillary Brooke and Acquanetta.