Description

The Lost World is a 1925 silent film fantasy film adventure film and an adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1912 The Lost World (Arthur Conan Doyle). The movie was produced by First National Pictures, a large Hollywood studio at the time, and stars Wallace Beery as Professor Challenger. This version was directed by Harry O. Hoyt and featured pioneering stop motion special effects by Willis O’Brien (an invaluable warmup for his work on the original King Kong (1933 film) directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack). Writer Doyle appears in a frontispiece to the film. In 1998, the film was deemed “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant” by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.

Cast

• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – Himself (appears in a frontispiece to the film, missing from some prints)
• Bessie Love – Paula White
• Lewis Stone – Lord John Roxton
• Lloyd Hughes – Edward Malone
• Wallace Beery – Professor Challenger
• Arthur Hoyt – Professor Summerlee
• Alma Bennett – Gladys Hungerford
• Virginia Browne Faire – Marquette the half-caste girl (uncredited)
• Bull Montana – Ape Man/Gomez
• Francis Finch-Smiles (billed as “Finch Smiles”) – Austin
• Jules Cowes (in blackface) – Zambo
• Margerette McWade – Mrs. Challenger
• George Bunny – Colin McArdle
• Charles Wellesley – Major Hibbard (uncredited)
• Nelson MacDowell – Attorney (uncredited)
• Chris-Pin Martin – Bearer/Cannibal (Scenes Deleted)
• Jocko the Monkey – Himself
• Mary the Chimpanzee – Herself (uncredited)