The Lost World (1925) | Directed by Harry O. Hoyt - Full Movie

The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.

The Lost World is a 1925 American silent fantasy giant monster adventure film adapted from Arthur Conan Doyle's 1912 novel of the same name. The film was produced and distributed by First National Pictures, a major Hollywood studio at the time, and stars Wallace Beery as Professor Challenger. It was directed by Harry O. Hoyt and featured pioneering stop motion special effects by Willis O'Brien, a forerunner of his work on the original King Kong. Doyle appears in a frontispiece to the film, absent from some extant prints.

In 1998, The Lost World was deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. Because of its age the film is in the public domain, and can be legally downloaded online.

Directed by: Harry O. Hoyt
Screenplay by: Marion Fairfax
Based on: The Lost World (1912 novel) by Arthur Conan Doyle
Produced by: Earl Hudson
Starring: Bessie Love, Lewis Stone, Wallace Beery, Lloyd Hughes
Cinematography: Arthur Edeson
Edited by: George McGuire
Production company: First National Pictures
Distributed by: First National Pictures
Release date: February 2, 1925 (US)
Running time: 106 minutes (original), 55 minutes (Kodascope 16 mm), 64 minutes (1991), 100 minutes (1998), 93 minutes (2000), 110 minutes (2017)
Country: United States
Language: Silent film (English intertitles)
Budget: $700,000
Box office: $1.3 million