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Paul S Person wrote:

On Sun, 9 Oct 2022 08:25:11 -0700 (PDT), Mark Leeper wrote:

Six Lost Worlds: The Dramatic Adaptations of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Novel (film comments by Mark R. Leeper)

[Originally published in Argentus, Number 3, Summer 2003]

<snippo; I have a few remarks on the first two>

The silent 1925 version is, indeed, much closer to the book than the
1960 version, including the outer wrapper: the protagonist's going on
the expedition to impress his sweetie, only to find on his return that
she has married a bank clerk and her desire for a man of adventure was
merely a "girlish whim". And in other ways as well, as you noted. ................
But the stop-motion is, for its time, fantastic.

The dinosaur action is, however, first-rate -- because (as you noted)
they are not stop-motion dinosaurs but lizards wearing costumes. ...........

"In this connexion, unquestionably the most significant
development was the disintegration, under Christian
influence, of classical conceptions of the family and of family right."

---------------- an interesting quote.




Wow. both of you guys know what you're talking about!!!


i think .... Most younger folks today (say, under 40 y.o.) have trouble
being interested in the Older Sci.Fi. films


i remember watching Disney's original 1954 [20000 Leagues Under the Sea]
and was blown-away by the quality not found in the recent Sci.Fi. films


_________________20000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954 film) https://en.wikipedia.org

It stars Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas, and Peter Lorre. Photographed in Technicolor, the film was one of the first feature-length motion pictures to be ...
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