The Land Unknown

Director: Virgil Vogel Virgil Vogel

Overview

Virgil W. Vogel's fantasy details a Navy patrol on an Antarctic expedition which stumbles onto a bizarre subterranean colony of prehistoric creatures.

Product Details

Release Date:	07/01/2014
UPC:	0025192180910
Original Release:	1957
Source:	Universal Mod
Language:	English
Time:	1:19:00
Sales rank:	34,873

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Jock Mahoney	Cmdr. Harold Roberts
William Reynolds	Lt. Jack Carmen
Shawn Smith	Margareth Hathaway
Phil Harvey	Steve Miller
Henry Brandon	Hunter
Douglas Kennedy	Capt. Burnham
H.J. Salter	Composer
Henry Mancini	Composer
Joseph Gershenson	Composer
Herman Stein	Composer

Technical Credits

William Robson

Laszlo Gorog

Virgil Vogel	Director
William Alland	Producer
Orien Ernest	Special Effects
Jack Kevan	Special Effects
Fred Knoth	Special Effects
William Robson	Screenwriter
Laszlo Gorog	Screenwriter
Leslie Carey	Sound/Sound Designer
Corson Jowett	Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

Make no mistake about it, The Land Unknown is one bad film. But those who are fans of 1950's sci-fi, especially the subgenre known as "lost world" films, will still get a kick out of it, as will all aficionados of bad movies. Not every single thing in Land is bad; some of the optical effects are actually pretty good for the period, and the use of actual footage from an early South Pole documentary is also interesting. Unfortunately, the dinosaurs, which are the reason one watches a film like this, are exceptionally poor. Many are lizards with plates or other objects attached to them, and they look no more like dinosaurs than any other lizard with objects attached to it. But those are still better than the tyrannosaurus, which is nothing more than a man wearing a not-too-convincing tyrannosaurus suit. Throw in a lame script, simply horrible dialogue, haphazard plotting and performances that are strictly from hunger, and the result is a dreadful mess that can't help but inspire laughter. It's definitely fun for a while, but the fun wears out a bit too quickly.