Lost Continent 1951
From The Grindhouse Cinema Database
Lost Continent (1951, USA) is an Adventure-Fantasy-Science Fiction film directed by Sam Newfield.
Main Details
- Released on August 17, 1951
- B&W (tinted)
- Running time: 83 minutes
- Production Co.: Sigmund Neufeld Productions (as Tom Productions Inc.)
- Distribution Co.: Lippert Pictures (1951) (USA) (theatrical) | Associated British-Pathé (1951) (UK) (theatrical)
- Directed by Sam Newfield
- Written by Richard H. Landau (screenplay), from a story by Carroll Young, with Orville H. Hampton (uncredited)
- Starring: Cesar Romero, Hillary Brooke, Chick Chandler
Plot Summary
- Major Joe Nolan heads a rescue mission in the South Pacific to recover a downed atomic rocket. The crew crash lands on a mysterious island, and spends much time rock-climbing.
Taglines
- Monsters in a land that time forgot!
- ASTOUNDING - INCREDIBLE - AMAZING! (original print ad - all caps)
- ZOOM...at atomic-powered speed to a NEW land of fantastic adventure!
- They Lived...180,000,000 Years in Seven Days!
- Modern Man Against Prehistoric Monster!
- SEE! Daring climb to a strange prehistoric world! SEE! Violent upheaval of a prehistoric earthquake! SEE! Breath-taking escape as an entire island explodes!
- A THOUSAND TERRIFYING THRILLS! (original print -all caps)
- 180.000.000 Years Beyond Belief!
- Thrills of the atomic-powered future! Adventures of the prehistoric past!
