The Lost World (1925)

The Lost World is a 1925 silent fantasy adventure film and an adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's 1912 novel of the same name. The movie was produced by First National Pictures, a large Hollywood studio at the time, and stars Wallace Beery as Professor Challenger. This version was directed by Harry O. Hoyt and featured pioneering stop motion special effects by Willis O'Brien (an invaluable warmup for his work on the original King Kong directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack). Writer Doyle appears in a frontispiece to the film. In 1998, the film was deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.

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Cast:

• Alma Bennett – Gladys Hungerford
• Arthur Hoyt – Professor Summerlee
• Wallace Beery
• Alma Bennett
• Bessie Love – Paula White
• Bull Montana – Ape Man/Gomez
• Charles Wellesley – Major Hibbard (uncredited)
• Chris-Pin Martin – Bearer/Cannibal (Scenes Deleted)
• Francis Finch-Smiles – Austin
• George Bunny – Colin McArdle
• Lloyd Hughes
• Jocko the Monkey – Himself
• Jules Cowes (in blackface) – Zambo
• Lloyd Hughes – Edward Malone
• Bessie Love
• Margerette McWade – Mrs. Challenger
• Mary the Chimpanzee – Herself (uncredited)
• Nelson MacDowell – Attorney (uncredited)
• Lewis Stone
• Wallace Beery – Professor Challenger