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The Lost World is a 1925 American silent fantasy monster adventure film adapted from Arthur Conan Doyle's 1912 novel of the same name. The film was produced by First National Pictures, a major Hollywood studio at the time, and stars Wallace Beery as Professor Challenger. It was directed by Harry O. Hoyt and featured pioneering stop motion special effects by Willis O'Brien, a forerunner of his work on the original King Kong. Doyle, who also created Sherlock Holmes, appears in a frontispiece to the film, absent from some extant prints.
In 1998, The Lost World was deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.
Because of its age the film is in the public domain, and can be legally downloaded online.
Cast
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as himself (appears in a frontispiece to the film, missing from some prints)
- Bessie Love as Paula White
- Lewis Stone as Sir John Roxton
- Lloyd Hughes as Edward Malone
- Wallace Beery as Professor Challenger
- Arthur Hoyt as Professor Summerlee
- Alma Bennett as Gladys Hungerford
- Virginia Brown Faire as Marquette the half-caste girl (uncredited)
- Bull Montana as Ape man/Gomez
- Francis Finch-Smiles as Austin
- Jules Cowes as Zambo
- Margerette McWade as Mrs. Challenger
- George Bunny as Colin McArdle
- Charles Wellesley as Major Hibbard
- Nelson MacDowell as Attorney (uncredited)
- Chrispin Martin as Bearer/Cannibal (scenes deleted)
- Jocko the Monkey as himself
- Mary the Chimpanzee as herself (uncredited)[4]