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You couldn’t find three movies with less in common than the trio below. Shocked

~ The first one is a disappointing version of the Arthur Coman Doyle's novel about dinosaurs.

~ The second movie is one of those stories which perpetuates the myth that there are tribes of all-women warriors in the Amazon jungle. Good grief, where did that silly idea ever come from? Very Happy

~ The third one is a wacky tale about two alien races who both want to rule the Earth, but two alien agents from different worlds fall in love!

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The Lost World (1960)



Unlike "The Lost Continent" (1951), this 20th Century Fox Cinemascope production had an ample budget — but the money wasn't well spent.

A good cast (Michael Rennie, Claude Rains, Jill St. John, David Hedison, and Fernando Lamas) are all part of an expedition that discovers a plateau in South America where dinosaurs still thrive.

Unfortunately, producer Irwin Allen elected not to use stop motion animation to create the dinosaurs. Instead, the audience is treated to two hours of disguised iguanas and baby alligators. Irwin Allen also co-wrote the script, which is burdened by an excess of soap opera melodrama.

On the positive side, the fine musical score is by Paul Sawtell and Bert Shefter.

The top quality production values make the film easy enough to watch, but there's a tragic story behind "The Lost World". Willis O'brien, creator of "King Kong", spent several years during the late 1950s making preparations for a big-budget remake of his 1925 version of "The Lost World". He made his pitch to producer Irwin Allen and the big wheels at 20th Century Fox, showing them the hundreds of preproduction drawings and paintings he had done, and he persuaded them to make the film.

But 20th Century Fox refused to let O'Brien do the film's special effects, substituting the poorly embellished reptiles instead.

From all reports, O'Brien's version would have been the greatest lost-land adventure movie of all time. Irwin Allen's lack of vision is puzzling in view of the fact that in 1956 he produced "The Animal World" with animated dinosaurs by Ray Harryhausen and Willis O'Brien!



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Love-Slaves of the Amazons (1957)

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The hot-and-cold talents of writer-producer-director Curt Siodmak run surprisingly cold in this potentially hot adventure yarn about a group of explorers captured by gorgeous Amazon warriors and forced to become their love slaves.

Naturally that sounds a lot better than it really is, since this was 1957 and love-slaves weren't all that loved or all that enslaved back in those days. Rolling Eyes

Starring Harvey Chalk, Eduardo Ciannelli, John Herbert, Gianna Segale, Don Taylor, and Wilson Viana.

Siodmak (with Ivan Tors) was responsible for "The Magnetic Monster" in 1953 and TV's "Science Fiction Theatre", along with other notable contributions to the sci-fi genre.

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The Love War (1970 TV movie)

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Lloyd Bridges and Angie Dickinson star in this TV movie about two alien races who decide not to go to war over which one will rule Earth.

Instead they settle the dispute by letting representatives of each race duel it out in a deserted town. Ironically, Bridges (from the planet Argon) falls in love with Dickinson (from the planet Zina).

A nice idea, but producer Aaron Spelling and director George McCowan fail to give it much pizazz.

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