![]() At the same time, Summerlee reopens the cave using explosives, allowing the explorers to flee the village when Achille condemns them. In the mayhem, the chief is killed, along with several other tribesmen before Roxton and Malone manage to kill the dinosaurs. Some time later, after having buried one of their children, the ape-men howl attracting two Allosaurus who attack the village. Roxton falls in love with the chief's daughter Maree, a woman who is quite similar to him, and they eventually marry. The chief shows the other end of the cave and reveals it was blocked by a man who visited the tribe, trapping them within the plateau. The ape-men are taken captive by the tribe.Īrriving at the village, the tribe are revealed to be surviving members of Mendoz's expedition and mistake Challenger for Mendoz, who taught them Christianity. Warriors from an indigenous tribe appear, aiding them in rescuing the professors, along with Achille, the son of their own chieftain. Malone and Agnes are chased by an Allosaurus, but evade it when it falls into a manmade trap.Įscaping the trap, Edward and Agnes find Roxton at the lake, learning the apes kidnapped Challenger and Summerlee. Malone finds a lake which he names after his fiancé Gladys. Venturing in the plateau's jungle, they find several species of dinosaur, a flock of pterosaurs, and a strange species of aggressive, carnivorous ape men. However, when all but Kerr make it across, he suddenly knocks the tree into the gorge and leaves Challenger and the others stranded. They later find a gorge leading straight to the plateau, using a tree as a substitute bridge. They reach the edge of the plateau and find a cave concealing a pathway to the plateau but discover a blockage. ![]() However, in the jungle, the expedition's porters flee out of superstition, but Kerr arrives, repeatedly trying to convince the bull-headed Challenger to turn back. Agnes volunteers to join the expedition as a translator. Roxton immediately takes a liking to Agnes' unladylike behaviour and flirts with her. They travel to a Christian mission in the Amazon, meeting Agnes Clooney and her uncle Reverend Theo Kerr, who condemns Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. On the voyage to South America, Challenger reveals a map created by a Portuguese man named Father Luis Mendoz leading to a remote Brazilian plateau where he encountered dinosaurs during a previous expedition. However, hunter Lord John Roxton, and Daily Gazette columnist Edward Malone both volunteer to join and finance the expedition. Challenger proposes an expedition to discover the home of the pterosaur, but is dismissed by the science community. Returning to England, Challenger crashes a lecture at the Natural History Museum held by his rival, Professor Leo Summerlee. While in the Amazon rainforest, Professor George Challenger shoots an animal he believes to be a pterosaur. Bob Hoskins played Professor Challenger and was supported by James Fox, Peter Falk, Matthew Rhys, Tom Ward and Elaine Cassidy. ![]() The 145-minute film was divided into two 75-minute episodes when broadcast on BBC One on 25 and 26 December 2001, receiving 8.68 million and 6.98 million viewers respectively. It was filmed at various locations on the West Coast of New Zealand. The Lost World is a 2001 British made-for-television film adaptation of the 1912 novel of the same name by Arthur Conan Doyle, directed by Stuart Orme and adapted by Tony Mulholland and Adrian Hodges.
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