Неизвестная земля (1957)

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The Land Unknown is a 1957 American science fiction CinemaScope adventure film about a naval expedition trapped in an Antarctic jungle. The story was allegedly inspired by the discovery of unusually warm water in Antarctica in 1947. It stars Jock Mahoney and Shirley Patterson and was directed by Virgil W. Vogel. The film's low-budget special effects include men in dinosaur suits, puppets and monitor lizards standing in for dinosaurs.

Production

The film was produced by William Alland for Universal International Pictures. The studio originally planned to make The Land Unknown a lavish, Technicolor feature, but the movie's budget was slashed after the disappointing box office performance of Universal's This Island Earth (1955). Although the feature was shot in CinemaScope, black-and-white film was used, and plans to shoot at the off-studio back lot Falls Lake were canceled.

The jungle scenery included a massive cyclorama hung around the entire sound stage, and tropical plants hung upside down to make them appear more prehistoric. Dinosaurs featured in the film include a Pteranodon; an Elasmosaurus; a pair of Stegosaurus, played by monitor lizards; and a Tyrannosaurus rex, played by Smyth. A giant, carnivorous plant is depicted as well.

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