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The Lost World is a 1992 film, based on the 1912 novel The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The movie is set in Africa
rather than the book's setting of South America, and the character of Lord John Roxton has been replaced with a female
character played by Tamara Gorski (in her film debut). It was followed by a sequel the same year, Return to the Lost World, with
the same director and main cast.

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Plot …

The film opens on Edward Malone, a junior reporter looking for an adventurous
assignment. Malone is sent to interview Professor Challenger, an explorer and
researcher who believes he is on the trail of the "lost world," a mysterious place in
Central Africa. Challenger has a picture of a cliff and a strange beast resembling a
pterodactyl that is his only evidence of the place.

The British scientific community finds his claims laughable. After receiving funding from
the family of Jenny Nielson, a wildlife photographer and the daughter of a rich American
contributor to the sciences, the "scientific community" agrees to organise an
exploratory expedition under the leadership of the antagonistic Professor Summerlee.
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Summerlee agrees to Malone and Nielson coming on the expedition, but refuses to allow
Challenger to be part of the expedition. With obvious reluctance, Challenger gives Directed by Timothy Bond
Summerlee a "map" to be opened at a road-end village in Africa at a particular date and
Written by Marion Fairfax
time. The expedition departs. A newsboy associate of Malone named Jim stows away on
the trip. Based on The Lost
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The expedition arrives in Africa where they are joined by a female guide named Malu and by Arthur
a Portuguese called Gomez. Summerlee opens the map from Challenger, finding it Conan Doyle
blank, at which point Challenger appears from nowhere leaving Summerlee no option
Produced by Harry Alan
but to accept his guidance on the exhibition. Under Challenger's guidance they find the
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cliff in the picture and reach the top, but Gomez (who turns out to be the brother of a
Portuguese who was killed on Challenger's first journey here) strands them with no way Starring John Rhys-
Davies
back down. Exploring the Lost World to find another way home, the team finds
Eric
dinosaurs, from a pair of Anatotitan to a pterodactyl rookery.
McCormack

Jim, Malone, and Malu narrowly avoid being eaten by a dinosaur (presumably a David Warner
Nathania
Herrerasaurus), only to find that their camp was attacked and the rest of the team is
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gone. The three discover a gathering of native tribesmen (painted with symbolic
skeletons) who regularly sacrifice humans off a cliff to the carnivorous dinosaurs. While Release date 9 February
the 'skeleton men' sacrifice a man to a Tyrannosaurus Rex, Malone distracts the tribe 1992

while the other explorers and captured natives escape, and they retreat to the safety of
Running time 99 minutes
a second tribe nearby (who use clothes, not paint). During these events, Summerlee
notes some oddities about the "ritual" vegetation necklaces that the sacrifices Country Canada

(themselves) were dressed in. The second tribe's members, through Malu's translation, Language English
tell the explorers about a time long ago when the shamans of their tribe convinced some
to worship the carnivorous dinosaurs, splitting the tribe in two.

Summerlee deduces that the vegetation necklaces placed on the sacrifices provided some necessary nutrient or immunisation
to the dinosaurs which had protected these dinosaurs from the extinction that the rest of the dinosaurs suffered globally (this
being a theory Summerlee had espoused previously). The expedition team uses their modern knowledge and research to
benefit the tribe with irrigation and horticultural benefits, to produce the antidote to a prehistoric plague. The skeleton tribe's
leader is killed, and the two tribes reunite. The chief shows the team a hidden cave that will lead them back to their world, and
has them promise that they will come back if they are ever needed.

Returning to the river, the team is ambushed by Gomez. Gomez is shot and wounded, but instead of killing him, Challenger
leaves him behind, saying, "Let the jungle have him." Malu stays in Africa, and the others return home. The Royal Zoological
Society in London rules that Challenger and Summerlee have insufficient evidence of their tale, until Jim reveals that he
brought back a baby pterodactyl. The team is celebrated for their achievements, but when Malone, Jenny, and Jim discover the
pterodactyl (named Percival), is unhappy being kept in a zoo, they release him, allowing him to fly back to the "lost world".

Cast …

John Rhys-Davies as Professor George Challenger

David Warner as Professor Summerlee

Eric McCormack as Edward Malone

Nathania Stanford as Guide Malu

Darren Peter Mercer as Jim

Tamara Gorski as Jenny Nielson

Sala Came as Dan

Fidelis Cheza as Chief Palala

John Chinosiyani as Witch Doctor

Innocent Choga as Pujo

Brian Cooper as Policeman

Charles David as Mojo Porter

Kate Egan as Kate Crenshaw

Mike Grey as Mojo Porter

Robert Haber as Maple White

Geza Kovacs as Portuguese Gomez

Ian Yule as Peterson

References …

External links …

The Lost World at IMDb

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