This Lost World is a splendid BBC TV dramatisation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous adventure story. Bob Hoskins makes an unusually genial Professor Challenger, far less of a bully than Doyle's ...

Professor Challenger, on an expedition to South America, shoots an animal that he claims is a pre-historic pterosaur. On his return to England, his fellow Professor, Summerlee, and most of the ...

Watching The Lost World is tantamount to taking a trip through a Coney Island fun house. The picture's chief attraction is its production gusto. Emphasis on physical and pictorial values makes up ...