The Land Unknown (1957) | |
| Director(s) | Virgil W. Vogel |
| Producer(s) | William Alland |
| Top Genres | Adventure, Fantasy, Science Fiction |
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The Land Unknown (1957) was a Adventure - Fantasy Film directed by Virgil W. Vogel and produced by William Alland.
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The Land Unknown (1957, Virgil W. Vogel)
on Sep 2, 2011 From The Stop ButtonThe Land Unknown has it all?a guy in a Tyrannosaurus Rex suit (the dinosaur?s roar is suspiciously similar to Godzilla?s), lizards standing in for dinosaurs, awful rear screen projection of those lizards to make them seem large, CinemaScope, misogyny, torture, a homicidal rapist being portrayed as a... Read full article
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Cmdr. Harold Roberts:
We'll find the wreck without your help.
Dr. Carl Hunter: Maybe you will if you aren't trampled to death first or eaten alive or die of starvation. Wait till the Antarctic night comes and for nine months the black air hangs round you like a rotten rag and your eyes are blinded from the dark and from your own sweat, and you lose each other - and you're alone - alone. Do you hear me? ...Always alone!
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Dr. Carl Hunter: Maybe you will if you aren't trampled to death first or eaten alive or die of starvation. Wait till the Antarctic night comes and for nine months the black air hangs round you like a rotten rag and your eyes are blinded from the dark and from your own sweat, and you lose each other - and you're alone - alone. Do you hear me? ...Always alone!
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This was originally set to be an expensive sci-fi epic shot in color with a large cast and Jack Arnold directing. Arnold actually began pre-production work when Universal decided to slash the budget, shoot it in black-and-white instead of color and changed (and reduced) the cast, turning it from a big-budget "A" picture to a low-budget "B" picture. Arnold withdrew from the project and Universal assigned it to one of its contract directors, Virgil W. Vogel.
This story was allegedly inspired by the discovery, in 1947, of an area of inexplicably warm water in Antarctica.
The cover photo of Best Buy's "Classic Sci-Fi Ultimate Collection - Volume 2" is adapted from Maggie's encounter with a man-eating squid-plant.
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This story was allegedly inspired by the discovery, in 1947, of an area of inexplicably warm water in Antarctica.
The cover photo of Best Buy's "Classic Sci-Fi Ultimate Collection - Volume 2" is adapted from Maggie's encounter with a man-eating squid-plant.
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