The Lost Continent is an American science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 film, starring Cesar Romero

Cesar Romero

Cesar Julio Romero, Jr. was an American film and television actor who was active in film, radio, and television for almost sixty years...

 and Hillary Brooke

Hillary Brooke

Hillary Brooke was an American film actress best known for her work in Abbott and Costello and Sherlock Holmes films...

 directed by Sam Newfield

Sam Newfield

Sam Newfield, born Samuel Neufeld, also known as Sherman Scott or Peter Stewart, was an American B-movie director, with over 250 feature films to his credit, and a large number of shorts, training films, industrial films, TV episodes, and pretty much anything anyone would pay him for...

 and produced by his brother Sigmund Neufeld

Sigmund Neufeld

Sigmund Neufeld was an American film producer. Neufeld produced many films directed by his brother Sam Newfield.- Selected filmography :*The Red Blood of Courage *Aces and Eights *Ghost Patrol...

. This low budget independent film was shot in eleven days. The footage on the plateau where the dinosaurs lived was printed with green tinting. The plot of the film strongly resembles the plot of Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle DL was a Scottish physician and writer, most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, generally considered a milestone in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger...

's novel, The Lost World. This film; Rocketship X-M

Rocketship X-M

Rocketship X-M was the second of the American science fiction feature films of the space adventure genre begun in the post-war era, in 1950...

(1950), which provided the rocket launch footage for this film; and Robot Monster

Robot Monster

Robot Monster is a 1953 American science fiction film made in 3-D by Phil Tucker. It is frequently considered one of the worst films ever made.- Plot :...

(1953), which reused footage from this film, were all mocked on the American TV program Mystery Science Theater 3000

Mystery Science Theater 3000

Mystery Science Theater 3000 is an American cult television comedy series created by Joel Hodgson and produced by Best Brains, Inc., that ran from 1988 to 1999....

.

Plot

Major Joe Nolan (Romero) is the head of a mission to the South Pacific to retrieve an atomic rocket that vanished. Their plane crashes on a remote tropical island. They find a lone native girl (Acquanetta

Acquanetta

Acquanetta , nicknamed "The Venezuelan Volcano," was a B-movie actress known for her exotic beauty.-Early years:Although accounts differ, Acquanetta claimed she was born Burnu Acquanetta in Ozone, Wyoming...

) who indicates something fell from the sky onto a forbidding plateau which dominates part of the island. The party reaches the top despite numerous obstacles as viewers are subjected to long stretches of rock climbing (almost 20 minutes in all), and discovers a lush jungle inhabited by dinosaurs. One dies during the climb, another is killed by the presumed-extinct animal life, but four return to the flatland with a critical component of the rocket and escape as a dormant volcano erupts and destroys the island utterly, plateau, dinosaurs and all.

Cast

• Cesar Romero
  Cesar Romero
  Cesar Julio Romero, Jr. was an American film and television actor who was active in film, radio, and television for almost sixty years...
  
   (Major Joe Nolan)
• Hillary Brooke
  Hillary Brooke
  Hillary Brooke was an American film actress best known for her work in Abbott and Costello and Sherlock Holmes films...
  
   (Marla Stevens)
• Chick Chandler (Lieutenant Danny Wilson)
• John Hoyt
  John Hoyt
  John Hoyt was an American film, stage, and television actor.-Early life:Hoyt was born John McArthur Hoysradt. Before becoming an actor with Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre, the Yale University graduate worked as a history instructor, acting teacher and even a nightclub comedian...
  
   (Michael Rostov)
• Acquanetta
  Acquanetta
  Acquanetta , nicknamed "The Venezuelan Volcano," was a B-movie actress known for her exotic beauty.-Early years:Although accounts differ, Acquanetta claimed she was born Burnu Acquanetta in Ozone, Wyoming...
  
   (Native girl)
• Sid Melton
  Sid Melton
  Sid Melton was an American actor known for his roles as incompetent carpenter Alf Monroe in the CBS sitcom Green Acres and as Uncle Charlie Halper, proprietor of the Copa Club, in Make Room for Daddy and its spin-offs.Born as Sidney Meltzer in Brooklyn, New York, he was the brother of screenwriter...
  
   (Sergeant William Tatlow)
• Whit Bissell
  Whit Bissell
  Whitner Nutting Bissell , better known as Whit Bissell, was an American actor.-Early life:Born in New York City, Bissell was the son of prominent surgeon Dr. J. Dougal Bissell. He trained with the Carolina Playmakers, a theatrical organization associated with the University of North Carolina at...
  
   (Stanley Briggs)
• Hugh Beaumont
  Hugh Beaumont (actor)
  Eugene Hugh Beaumont was an American actor and television director. He was also licensed to preach by the Methodist church...
  
   (Robert Phillips)
• Murray Alper
  Murray Alper
  Murray Alper was an American actor.Alper's earliest screen credit was 1930's The Royal Family of Broadway, and for the following thirty-five years, he appeared in a number of films, usually playing cab drivers, bookies, cops and GIs.Frequently seen in comedies, Alper was featured in the Three...
  
  (Air Police Sergeant)