The Lost World
The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Director: Harry O. Hoyt
Actors: Alma Bennett, Arthur Hoyt, Bessie Love, Bull Montana, Frank Finch Smiles, Jules Cowles, Lewis Stone, Lloyd Hughes, Margaret McWade, Wallace Beery
The Lion Hunters
A lion trapper and his daughter rendezvous with their hardheaded partner in the African jungle. Bomba, with some assistance from the local natives and lions, runs them off.
Miss Robin Crusoe
This 1954 feminist version of “Robinson Crusoe” stars Amanda Blake as a woman shipwrecked on a jungle island. Also with George Nader and Rosalind Hayes.
The Roots of Heaven
In Fort Lamy, French Equitorial Africa, idealist Morel launches a one-man campaign to preserve the African elephant from extinction, which he sees as the last remaining “roots of Heaven.” At…