Reptileenbu Did you people see the same film I saw?

TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Jonah Abbott There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Brenda The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

classicsoncall The movie is based on the 1918 Edgar Rice Burroughs story and is set during the World War I era. I find it interesting that Burroughs' tales start out in one milieu before transitioning into science fiction fantasy; another example would be "John Carter From Mars" which opened with a narrator during the time period of the Civil War. In this tale, Burroughs opines on a lost world he calls Caprona, uncharted and forgotten for two hundred years and set somewhere within the hidden confines of the Antaractic.The adventure begins with the sinking of the twenty thousand ton British freighter Montrose by a German submarine. Survivors of the Montrose manage to find their way aboard the sub as it surfaces and in a highly unlikely maneuver, manage to subdue the German Captain and his crew. Further suspension of disbelief is required as the Brits, along with American Bowen Tyler (Doug McClure) trade control of the sub with the German Von Schoenvorts (John McEnery) once again before they decide they need to work together as their rations and water supply are at minimum, particularly after Tyler's maneuver of torpedoing a German supply ship that was to rendezvous with the submarine. I thought it pretty convenient that Tyler's father had a hand in designing submarines, which in turn gave him an advantage in knowing the sub's machinery and operating mechanisms. What were the odds? Things pick up once the seamen make it through an underwater tunnel that brings them to the tropical land of Caprona. Encountering a Neanderthal type being that becomes sort of a guide, the adventurers run across a variety of dinosaurs from earth's ancient past, including pterodactyls, a diplodocus, plesiosaurus and a couple of allosaurs that they summarily shoot to death. I always wondered in movies like this why the principals begin firing at creatures that aren't posing any particular danger. Perhaps in an attempt to elicit the viewer's sympathy in this regard, another encounter with a styracosaurus ends with the dying creature shedding a tear. The story line offers an interesting concept for one's consideration when biologist Lisa Clayton (Susan Penhaligon) proposes that the land they've encountered is home to animals and human-like beings that represent the various stages of evolution that Earth had gone through. Surmising that if they continue traveling in a northerly direction, they would eventually come across more advanced creatures, the explorers are waylaid in their quest by warring sub-humans and a seismically active environment that leads to a fiery finale. Volcanoes explode and fissures open in the ground that emit fire due to the presence of burning oil.The story doesn't have a typical happy ending for the principal characters, Tyler and Clayton. Left stranded on purpose by a vengeful German who opposes his Captain, the pair can only look on in astonishment as the submarine is hijacked, but their amazement is tempered when the sub is destroyed during the volcanic eruptions and attendant upheaval. The picture hints an Adam and Eve type of new beginning for them, now left to their own devices to make the best of an unplanned and unimagined future together.

Claudio Carvalho In 1916, during the World War II, a British passenger ship is torpedoed by the German U-boat commanded by Captain Von Schoenvorts (John McEnery) and sinks. The survivors Bowen Tyler (Doug McClure) and Lisa Clayton (Susan Penhaligon) join a few crew members that has also survived and Bowen convinces them to take over the submarine that has come to the surface. They sail together but they end lost in the middle of the ocean. After many incidents between Germans and British, the two groups team-up to survive and arrive in Caprona, a land that is not charted in the maps. Soon they realize that the land has dinosaurs, pterodactyls and Neanderthals. They capture a native, Ahm (Bobby Parr), and they learn that there is oil on the land. They see the chance to refine it and leave Caprona. Will they succeed in their intent? "The Land That Time Forgot" is an unforgettable adventure based on Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel with the same title. The plot is delightfully naive and is funny to see how we could buy a story of a land forgotten by time forty years ago. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "A Terra Que o Tempo Esqueceu" ("The Land That Time Forgot")

mgruebel "The Land That Time Forgot" is arguably the most underrated dinosaur action movie of the 1970s. Good B-movie fun for the kids (and adults) in the family that can't resist dinosaur fare.This Doug McClure vehicle about British sailors who capture a German U-Boat that sunk their ship, then get stranded on a prehistoric island (think King Kong's Skull Island), only to be picked off one-by-one by ravenous dinosaurs and cave men, has pretty high value special effects for a 1970s flick. It is an instant classic, like "Logan's Run," which also featured some of the top special effects the time could muster - until Star Wars changed the whole game. (Of course, I am excluding 1968's "2001" here, a Kubrick film so far ahead of its time that it stands in a special category of its own.)Caprona actually has a plot (unlike the Jurassic Park sequels, for instance), good actors in a fabulous ensemble cast, character development, and a great set-up (Germans and British who want to kill one another, instead have to band together to survive ravaging dinosaurs).The special effects of course are not up to modern CGI, but they are awesome in their palpable physicality: glider planes disguised as pterodactyls that pick up a real actor in their teeth by swooping down; ichthyosaurs that shoot out of the water next to the U-Boat to feed on human prey; prehistoric men that will bash your head in with an ax, but also make dearest friends and love the Edison phonograph music; tar pits bubbling and shooting natural gas flames. We must forgive a scene where two allosaurs (still standing upright and tails down as was the posing custom in 1970s paleontology) have strings attached. Puppetry still beats stop motion, but take the kids to "Dark Crystal" if you want to see it done really well.The band of men and women is eventually defeated by their own infighting. The simple moral is that Nature will get us if we don't work together and get over our differences. As the U- Boat goes down in flames, the viewer actually feels sorry for the doomed characters, and equally sorry for the lone couple that was left on shore to deal with the prehistoric mayhem.This film is good enough to deserve a remake, but also good enough that it doesn't really need one. One the other hand, many modern remakes were made from movies NOT good enough to need a remake, or even to have been made in the first place.

Spikeopath The Land That Time Forgot is directed by Kevin Connor and adapted to screenplay by Michael Moorcock & James Cawthorn from the Edgar Rice Burroughs novel of the same name. It stars Doug McClure, Keith Barron, John McEnery, Susan Penhaligon, Anthony Ainley and Declan Mulholland. Music is by Douglas Gamley and cinematography by Alan Hume. It is the first of four feature films featuring the pairing of director Kevin Connor and actor Doug McClure. Story is set during World War I and sees an uneasy alliance formed between enemies on board a German U-Boat after it drifts for miles and lands in a lost world of dinosaurs and cavemen.Rationale goes out the window, as does any hope of quality thesping, in the sort of cheese laden creature feature that thrilled many a child back in the mid to late 1970's. Film was enough of a success that it spawned three more films of the same ilk; At the Earth's Core (1976), The People That Time Forgot (1977) and Warlords of Atlantis (1978). Of the four, this is the one that arguably has the most about it in terms of plotting and character development. Certainly it's the biggest budgeted of the four. In fact for the first third of the picture it's distinctly un-child friendly, as story focuses on characters from opposite sides of the war clashing on board the U-Boat after the torpedoing of the ship housing the allies. But once the boat reaches arctic climes and wades thru to the sunnier "other side", it's all prehistoric puppets, fisticuffs and square jawed heroics from McClure. Ultimately a fun boys own adventure without sensible trappings. Not as outrageously fun as At the Earth's Core, but a decent launching pad for the 70's creature feature niche created by Connor and McClure. 6.5/10