Britain's Amicus productions, who were more famous for their portmanteau horror movies, were behind this low budget fantasy adventure based on Edgar Rice Burroughs' 1918 novel of the same name. Doug McClure is the all American hero who survives an assault on his ocean liner by a German U-Boat during WW1. Along with a group of fellow survivors he manages to take control of the German submarine, but they end up lost at sea and stranded on a forgotten continent inhabited by gigantic dinosaurs and primitive cavemen. This enjoyable film in the Saturday-matinee mold, uses puppets, hand-held or on strings rather than stop motion dinosaurs, and some decent models posing as U-Boats and ships. The acclaimed sci-if author Michael Moorcock helped to write the meaty B movie script. The movie was a big hit for Amicus who went on to make two more Burroughs adaptations, The People That Time Forgot (1977), and At the Earth's Core (1976), which also starred McClure.
Review of The Land That Time Forgot
