The People That Time Forgot, the sequel to The Land That Time Forgot, is one of several Edgar Rice Burroughs novels adapted into successive films by Kevin Conner between 1975 and 1978; the other two films were the less popular At the Earth's Core and Warlords of Atlantis. Like its predecessor, this film featured both an exciting adventure story and excellent miniature special effects. However, I couldn't overlook the similarities between the story and that of the Planet of the Apes sequel, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, which raises the question of whether The People That Time Forgot was altered to resemble the "Apes" sequel or if Beneath the Planet of the Apes was inspired by Burroughs's novel. The two films have too many parallels to list here, which fans who have seen both will notice easily, but it may simply be a coincidence.
The film appeals to 70s teen boys by featuring enough dinosaurs and attractive women to keep them on the edge of their seats. Science fiction fans would enjoy the dinosaur scenes, and the addition of eye-catching actresses broadened the film's appeal. Make no mistake - the movie offers more than just visual indulgence. However, it's challenging to keep one's eyes off alluring stars like Dana Gillespie. The capable, intelligent female leads showcase strength and sexiness simultaneously, portraying women as more than just objects on display. Their powerful portrayal likely proved liberating for many female viewers of this 1970s film ostensibly targeting males.
After the events described in The Land That Time Forgot, Bowen Tyler's message in a bottle is discovered and passed along to his comrade Ben McBride, who assembles a team to search for the mythical island of Caprona. Following Tyler's instructions, they locate the island. A small group including McBride, Lady Charlotte Cunningham (whose father funded the expedition), Dr. Edwin Norfolk (a paleontologist), and Hogan (the pilot) take off in a seaplane, hoping to fly over the island's mountain peaks and find Tyler's prehistoric paradise. However, a aggressive pterodactyl repeatedly buzzes the plane before crashing into the propeller, breaking it into pieces. This forces the team to make an emergency landing on a rocky hilltop.
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The group, unharmed, decided to continue searching for Tyler as Hogan stayed behind to repair the plane. Their trek through the jungles of Caprona led to several hair-raising dinosaur encounters and a meeting with Ajor, an English-speaking cavewoman who had befriended Tyler before his capture by the advanced race known as the Skulls. Clad in samurai armor, the Skulls captured the group and intended to sacrifice the women to the Volcano God. Through trickery and skilled swordsmanship, the men managed to find Tyler, rescue the women, and escape the monster-filled catacombs.
The Volcano God erupts in anger because the village failed to sacrifice to it. The god unleashes explosions and rivers of molten lava to destroy the island. In the chaos that follows, Tyler is killed by the Skulls, who in turn perish in the lava flow. The remaining group members narrowly escape the devastation by reaching the repaired plane and flying back to the ship, just in time.
The Volcano God erupts in anger because the village failed to sacrifice to it. The god unleashes explosions and rivers of molten lava to destroy the island. In the chaos that follows, Tyler is killed by the Skulls, who in turn perish in the lava flow. The remaining group members narrowly escape the devastation by reaching the repaired plane and flying back to the ship, just in time.
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In the early 1970s’ Amicus Pictures (Owned by Milton Subotsky and Max J Rosenberg) decided to pump so life into the declining British fantasy film industry by bringing the works of Tarzan creator Edgar Rice Burroughs to the big screen. The company’s rival, Hammer, had abandoned its standard horror films for features starring half naked women in an attempt to put more bodies in the seats and the time seemed right for Burroughs strait forward action tales to fill the void.
The Last Dinosaur was a 1977 American-Japanese co-production that starred Richard Boone as a tired, over-the-hill big game hunter named Masten Thrust, who goes on one final hunting expedition to kill the greatest predator that ever lived: Tyrannosaurus Rex. The film's title has a dual meaning, referring both to the T-Rex and to Thrust himself, whose breed of great white hunter adventurer is going extinct.
While on a routine rafting trip the Marshall family, Rick Marshall and his two children, Will and Holly, fall through a time portal into a world inhabited by prehistoric creatures and misplaced beings. Forced to learn to survive in a world turned upside down the Marshall's would have to rely on some help from unexpected places. Living day by day and running from dinosaurs or evil Sleestack, a race of lizard-like humanoids, the family grew closer together. Eventually the family would be able to return home only to have another Marshall family from another rift in time enter the dimension.
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