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| CATEGORY: | Video |
| DIRECTOR: | Virgil W. Vogel |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | August, 1957 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Universal Studios |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Black & White, Closed-captioned, HiFi Sound, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Horror |
| MEDIA: | VHS Tape |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 096898159630 |
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Customer Reviews of The Land Unknown
Attack of the Killer B Movie!! Okay, I agree some of the monsters in this movie are rather weak, but all in all, because of the likable cast, this is a perfect Drive-in Black and White film. I am sure kids of today raised with all colour films and with the high quality computer generated effects, will sniff their noses at this film, but to the baby-boomers that loved Drive-In B movies, this is one of the better ones.
Jock Mahoney (TV's Yancy Derringer and later a Tarazon for movies) stars with the gorgeous William Reynolds (TV's FBI and also from The Thing that Would Not Die another perfect B movie) in this tale of a polar expedition that crashes over the South Pole due to crashing into a Pterodactyl. There is a hot pocket where all sorts of prehistoric (make it in this case prehysteric!!) monsters still exist. Three men and a woman crash and await rescue, but due to one of the running the battery down they cannot get word where they are hidden in the tropics jungle at the centre of the Pole. They discover there was another party, with one man still surviving, and since there is only one female, tempers flare up naturally.
I am a sucker for the old Black & White B horror, Sci-fi and mysteries. It's not the quality of the monsters...its the experience. So pop some popcorn, turn out the lights and enjoy a kinder gentler Jurassic Park....
50s Fun with Nostalgic Appeal
Today's kids, raised on computer-generated graphics, will probably sneer at it, but by 1957 standards THE LAND UNKNOWN was pretty hard to beat. Drawing inspiration from 1920s silent classic THE LOST WORLD and using film shot by Byrd during his polar expedition, THE LAND UNKNOWN presents the story of a helicopter forced down at a warm-water oasis in Antartica--where the crew discovers a prehistoric world where everything seems determined to gobble them up.
The special effects are a mixed bag, ranging from live-action shots of lizards-in-combat to Godzilla-style rubber suits to full size mechanics. While I wouldn't describe it as greatly sophistocated or even consistently executed, it is all a tremendous amount of fun. The script is more intelligent than you might expect--and the story takes an unexpected turn that tempers the action-heavy plot with a certain depth. The cast is no-name, but every one plays expertly, and THE LAND UNKNOWN moves at a cracking pace. This will never compete with the likes of Harryhausen's stop-motion classics, nor will it go down in the history of film as an equal to the truly great science-fiction and fantasy films of its day. But THE LAND UNKNOWN is a fun flick, and I recommend it to fans of 1950s creature features.
It's a Fair Movie
The special effects look cheap and the dinosaurs look somewhat fake, but never the less this is a watchable film for two hours, as three men and one woman try to repair their helicopter and escape a hidden prehistoric valley in the Antartic.