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List Price: $9.99 | | Label: Image Entertainment
Salesrank: 79190
Released: July 20, 1999 |
| Our Price: $6.17 |
| Used Price: $4.29 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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| Features:
Black & White DVD NTSC | |
Editorial Review:
Prehistoric, primitive, primeval monsters of 100,000,000 years ago...alive again today! Maddened mastodons fight for savage women! Spectacular wondrous earth-shaking adventures as man battles monster in the screen's most awesome spectacle! Beyond imagination...the weird sloth, giant congorillas, poisonous lizards, venom vultures! James Arness (The Thing) stars as the heroic Captain Kirk Hamilton, the man shipwrecked on
the island that time forgot.
Description of Two Lost Worlds:
Unable to decide whether to make a pirate movie, a Western, or a dinosaur flick, director Norman Dawn decided to make all three at once. It's 1830 and the clipper ship Hamilton Queen is leaving New England for the East Indies. James Arness in his pre-Gunsmoke days stars as Kirk Hamilton, the son of the ship's owner who is there to tell the captain what to do, like go through the pirate-infested waters to cut a day off their schedule. When the pirates attack, Kirk is seriously injured, so they drop him off on an island near Australia to heal. The movie slips into "Western" mode when he helps the townsfolk form an American-styled militia to protect them from the pirates (and gets involved in a love triangle). Then the pirates return to steal some women, so Kirk and company chase after them and get shipwrecked on an island full of dinosaurs. Some might say this plot was just an excuse to use whatever stock footage was sitting around. Who cares? This movie gives a great look back at what low-budget filmmaking was like in 1950. Plus, the narration that glues the disparate scenes together is as overstated, flowery and entertaining as any narration from an Ed Wood film. Though only 61 minutes long, Two Lost Worlds is honest camp and pure pleasure. --Andy Spletzer
Two Lost Worlds Reviews:
Obscure film - and with good reason 
2009-05-11 - Not much to offer here. This is tough going until the end, and the final "pay off" we waited for (re: dinosaurs & destruction) is pathetically weak at best. James Arness shows up for his paycheck and that's about it. His brother, Peter Graves, had to live with "Killers From Space" on his acting credits and James had this mess. We all have our crosses to bear, I suppose. Video & audio quality are okay. If you can get it for a few bucks then okay, otherwise forget it. There are much better b-film dino movies out there that are truly deserving of your attention. This ain't one of them.
Truly awful 
2008-07-08 - I'm a serious fan of the cheesiest old black-and-white monster flicks. I typically sort my lists starting from the cheapest - and so when this one popped up, I bought it. OK, you get what you pay for. Awful. Awful. Awful. Or maybe just boring, boring boring. Where are the dinosaurs? Where is the 'spectacle'. Basically a pseudo western soap opera of the TV kind - that just happens to have James Arness lurking somewhere in the cast (definitely not 'starring'). I tried to give it No Stars - but the system wouldn't let me.
two dumb cheap plain worlds
2007-07-13 - boat goes to sea, gets pirated, wins, lands on australia-world1-ok but brief borin land scene, then gets land pirated by same ones, then chased to sea, loses and lands on world 2-no spitting monster vultures or anything but a croc w/ a fin who bit a gila monster-((stock footage from other film-1 mil. b.c. which was on tv recent by surprise free and better because it was unedited)), then back to this pic,-volcano caused lizard & croc jumping, 2 secs of neat but cheap special fx on volcano smoke in background. the next day the group is picked up at sea by their former boat.(b/w boring movie)-if it sells it should be .01 minus 2$ shipping. lousy, i can't even pawn it, they want $1 for it but said i have to get 4 more lousy movies like this one to pawn a total of 5$-just my continued dumb luck, oh but no, i want my $ back (oh,ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh-sam kinison).
What the...? A spliced-up bit of ham, barely coherent 
2003-03-07 - Wow. Gathering together miles of stock footage, using leftover sets and costumes, and with a narrator whose dialogue HAD to be written by Ed Wood (c'mon, NO ONE else could write like that!), this is one of the most stupefying flicks I've ever come across. The "clipper ship" has the most Freudian bowsprit I've ever seen (certainly nothing like those actually USED), but don't worry - nothing stays on screen for more than a couple of minutes. The pace is downright frantic - clipper ship, pirates, battle, wild kangaroos, sheep, period-costume ball, another ship, another pirate battle, burning ships, lost island, "dinosaurs", volcano, back to the original clipper. All in about 60 minutes! Yikes!
This one may be of some interest to older Detroit-area viewers because the co-star is Bill Kennedy. Bill used to host a daily TV afternoon movie (back in those halcyon days before everything was syndicated to death), trading in on his days as a B-movie actor. He also gets the funniest scene in the movie, when, after having a large (styrofoam) volcanic boulder bounce off of him, he lays down, tells Arness to "take care of Elaine", then jerks his head to the left in the quickest "death scene" I've ever seen. Worth the price of the DVD just to see THAT!
The dinosaurs? Sheesh - must have been used from somewhere else, because they look VERY familiar (in a cheesy Irwin Allen way). But they're just stuck in with less than 15 minutes to go, and have NO bearing on the "plot". Without them, this would have been a "pure" costume-drama. With them, hmmmm, not much improvement.
Not really recommendable unless you want to try out your skills as an MST riffer. (This would have been a GREAT show, with enough extra time for a short!) A bit faster paced than "Lost Continent" (what isn't?), which was made the same year, but LOOKS 30 years older due to the 1830's setting and relentless costuming, and nowhere NEAR the rewatchability factor. Worth a look if you can get it cheap just to see Bill Kennedy and his howler of a death scene.
Really Lost
2001-09-25 - I purchased this movie based on it's title and because James Arness was in it. The title sounded good and I have seen James in a number of movies from the 50's (e.g., The Thing, and THEM) so how could I go wrong. Well - the movie starts out slow, drags in the middle, and the prehistoric creatures (a couple of big lizards) don't even show up until the end of the movie. It will be hard for me to watch this one twice.
