Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

Actuakers One of my all time favorites.

FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Raymond Sierra The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

JohnHowardReid Copyright 15 August 1951 by Tom Productions, Inc. U.S. release through Lippert Pictures. No recorded New York opening. San Francisco world premiere at the Paramount: 19 July 1951. U.S. release: 17 August 1951. 7,533 feet. 82 minutes. SYNOPSIS: Hunting for a lost rocket, a small party of scientists crash-lands on an unknown Pacific island. NOTES: Shooting from 13 April to 24 April 1951 COMMENT: By the humble standards of both Mr Lippert and the Neufeld Brothers, this is not too trying a little offering. On the debit side (in no particular order) are Mr Sid Melton who labors painfully to garner a few laughs from trite material; animated monsters that look like drawing-board rejects from The Lost World (1925); and a mountain peak that is obviously rooted on a film studio floor. We could also add Hillary Brooke to this side of the ledger. One of our favorite stars, Miss Brooke is treated shamefully here. True, she looks lovely, but she has only one scene. Count it! One! I'll assign Cesar Romero to neither debit nor credit. He's competent enough, but I can take him or leave him. However, I like Chick Chandler and John Hoyt, and it's always good to see Whit Bissell making out as a scientist type. Although the monsters are pretty crummy, at least three or four of the excitements are grippingly presented by director Newfield and I very much the idea of presenting all the top-of-the-mountain footage on green-tinted stock.

Aaron1375 I saw this film as part of an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000. It is a film that features a lot of stars one would recognize from back in the day and the plot is rather ambitious; however, the main problem with the film is the overly long scene of the group of men climbing a mountain. This film is a film that was produced by James Lippert and his films do tend to have an excessive amount of padding within it and this one is no exception. Besides the overly long rock climbing in the film, there is also an abundance of scenes where the group of men decide to take a break every few minutes it seems. You basically get an action scene that lasts like two minutes and then are treated to watching the guys sit around and eat food by the campfire.The story has a rocket that is launched and it flies for a bit and then proceeds to go down. A group of six men are charged with flying after said rocket and finding it to get something or another out of it. They are able to track it to an island before their plane crashes. A native girl on the island takes them to the forbidden mountain and they proceed to climb it for the longest time. How they are climbing this mountain is anyone's guess seeing as how they are not really prepared to go mountain climbing wearing their normal shows and only having like one rope to head up. Well, they finally manage to make it up the mountain, but by this time over half the movie is over and they are in some sort of lost land. It is not a continent as it is not nearly big enough to be a continent. This portion of the film is supposed to be tinted green, but a lot of the made for television versions of this film did not include this feature. The men must go through this strange jungle with its creatures from another time to find the rocket before once again heading back down the mountain.This made for a rather good episode of MST3K, as I loved the portion of the film where Joel begins to lose it as the film kept stalling at the mountain climbing sequence. That segment of the movie was probably the longest portion of the film and then add to it the trip back down and you spend most of the film watching guys go up and down. I am guessing most of the movie is intact for the episode as it is only an hour and 23 minutes long, so perhaps five or ten minutes were cut from the actual film.So this film could have been good. The plot was ambitious, but when watching the film you can tell that most of the scenes featuring the dinosaurs are short while scenes of people climbing and walking are long. I do not see the reason behind including so much padding as they could have easily cut ten or so minutes out and still had enough for a feature presentation. Back in the day it was not totally out of the question for a film to run just over or under an hour. A film that could have been okay for the time, but just a bit too much padding.

Bruce Cook A synopsis of this film and a list of the cast members is bound to raise false hopes. Sad to say, it sounds much better than it looks.An atomic rocket crashes atop a lofty plateau on a South Sea island, a plateau where dinosaurs still survive. Three military men and three scientists climb to the top of the plateau and struggle through the savage environment to recover important data from the rocket. The cast consists of B-movie sci-fi veterans: Cesar Romero ("The Jungle"), John Hoyt ("Attack of the Puppet People"), Hugh Beaumont ("The Mole People"), White Bissell ("The Time Machine" and others), Hillary Brooke ("Invaders from Mars"), Sid Melton ("Captain Midnight"), and a bit part by Acquanetta ("Captive Wild Woman").The jungle sets and tabletop miniatures bear a pleasing resemblance to a poor-man's Skull Island (misty and surrealistic). The special effects during the climactic earthquake are nicely done. The cast does a fair job with Richard Landau's script. Admirable music by Paul Dunlap. Directed by Sam Newfield.In spite of these assets, the film is defeated by a low budget and the poorly done animation (the credits do not name the animator). Only two triceratops, one brontosaurus, and one pterodactyl are shown. The dinosaur models lack detail. "The Lost Continent" came out early in the sci-fi craze of the 1950s, before any of Harryhausen's movies. The producers didn't realize how hungry the public was for rampaging stop-motion monsters.

acarrera As a child I hated Sci FI movies but this one was compelling the actors were great and the plot the same. its a must see again. I believed then and still hold some theory that one day we will venture in to a lost continent in the south Pacific, Ther are so many small uncharted Islands.