Unknown Island

Starring:Virginia Grey, Phillip Reed, Richard Denning, Barton MacLane, Dick Wessel, Dan White, Phil Nazir, Ray Corrigan, 'Snub' Pollard
Director: Jack Bernhard
Studio: Image Entertainment
Product Type: DVD

Description

Almost 50 years before "Jurassic Park..." an amateur photographer, his fiancee and their companions take a perilous journey to a place where dinosaurs, giant sloths and other prehistoric creatures thrive. Filmed in vibrant Cinecolor at a time when many movies were confined to black and white and featuring eye-popping special effects, "Unknown Island," directed by Jack Bernhard, offers a thrilling look at modern man's confrontation with the primordial past.

Customer Reviews:

A little gem from the past.......2007-07-04

They sure dont make movies like this anymore,, and if they did, it would be
pretty hard to secure a budget... Im glad that they did make these movies, as
they were our source of entertainment. I would rather see cheap monster
movies than gangster or war movies that were all the rage in the 60's.
There were much better creature movies out there, but only this one had
those weird dinosaurs. I just got the DvD version, and again am i pleased
with the quality, the color, the music. Its pretty bare bone dvd, without
any bonus stuff....

Great nostalgia...........2007-06-02

"Unknown Island"....Not as awesome or frightening as when I first saw it as an 8-year old in 1948 at the Centro Theatre on 77th and Central in South Central Los Angeles....but well worth the few bucks I paid for this treasure of memories.
johnnie

cheesy but fun........2007-01-01

This is your typical dinosaur movie. A lost island that time has stood still and prehistoric (most of the time dinosaurs) animals still roam this world. Several people get eaten by the dinosaurs. It's sort of predictable. The animals look very fake but it's still a good movie. There are four animals in the movie. A brontosaurus,dimetrodons,giant sloths (they look more like giant apes), and many t.rexes. I especally like the t.rexes. They look more like ceratosaurus than a t.rex but who cares! Overall it's a good movie to see. It's apporpreate enough for childern. No bad words but some violence. The violence isn't too intense but it's mild. By this movie with Lost Continent (the one with Cesar Romero). It makes a great double feature!

It's different..........2006-12-30

This is very different from what I've seen in other movies, mainly because it was made a long time ago.

I'm definitely not an expert on special effects, but, I've heard that these ones were worse than average even for their time.

But what the heck, the dinosaurs may be men in suits, but at least those suits are better than the extreme crap that is the Jurassic Park CGI dinosaur effects.

The characters are somewhat interesting, but none of them would get on my list of best movie characters.

I had something else to say about this movie, but I've completely forgotten what it was...

First Color Dinosaurs.......2006-05-21

If you're a fan of Harryhausen, O'Brien, and movies like Mighty Joe Young, The Lost World, and Valley of The Gwangi, this one is a must to complete your collection. I'm not sure how the monsters were done - some look like men in suits, but better.

The plot's similar to King Kong - a sea voyage to a monster island. I believe it's the first feature film about dinosaurs in color. One of the monsters is a giant sloth that looks like a modified gorilla suit - certainly not as cute as the sloth in Ice Age. But scarier than many movie monsters.

The stars are much better than in the typical "B" monster movies - Virginia Grey, Richard Denning, and Barton MacLane were respected actors in their day.

Vol. 7-Vampyr/Fog Island/Giant from the Unknown

Average customer rating:

Vol. 7-Vampyr/Fog Island/Giant from the Unknown
Starring: Reel Values-Horror Triple Feature
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B000065Q9T
Release Date: 2002-07-02

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