Two Lost Worlds (1951)

TWO LOST WORLDS is an amusing little adventure flick made on an obviously low budget. The story is about settlers versus pirates, with strapping James Arness the hero of the hour who spends most of his time in a love triangle with a pretty magistrate's daughter and her ranch-owning lover. The film has a low rent but exotic feel to it with a light, action-focused plot to keep youngsters entertained. Late on in the proceedings, the heroine is kidnapped by dastardly pirates and taken to a 'lost world' inhabited by erupting volcanoes and dinosaurs. The dinosaur footage is brief and ripped off from earlier films and features a couple of lizards with glued-on fins fighting. High art this ain't, but old B-movie fans will get a kick out of it.

Two Lost Worlds and I only counted one of them is a cheap knockoff of a film with stock footage from One Million BC and Captain Caution thrown together fill out a film where a Yankee sailor finds love and romance and dinosaurs and volcanoes and kangaroos in one sixty minute film. If you like all those things you got your money's worth.This low budget independent casts James Arness in the lead as the Yankee sailor who after a firefight with some pirates in the New Hebrides island is dropped off in Queensland in Australia to recover from wounds. Where he falls in love with Laura Elliot who is engaged to rancher Bill Kennedy. That's your romance.But the pirates aren't done yet, they capture Elliot and her little sister as hostages after a raid and Arness and Kennedy lead a rescue attempt. After another pirate firefight they get stranded on a volcanic island with some dinosaurs. I think you can figure the rest out.I saw this when I was about 8 years old on Million Dollar Movie in New York. I thought it was hot stuff then, but my ardor for this film has considerably cooled. It's half romance novel, half science fiction and not done well in either department. And absolutely no one talks like they're from Australia.

American sailor has his ship attacked by pirates and ends up ashore in Australia where he falls in love with one of the local women. When the pirates attack the village the sailor has to go off to rescue his lady love...only to end up shipwrecked on an island with dinosaurs.Misbegotten adventure film that stands out only because of the dinosaurs in the final minutes, this is a clunky adventure film that isn't very good. One person here on IMDb indicates that this is actually several episodes of an an sold TV show stitched together, which makes perfect sense owing to the compartmentalized structure of the films stories. Not really bad, it is like watching an old TV show that you never heard of for a good reason. I picked up the film because of the dinosaurs on the cover only to later read about how they only show up at the end, and then was shocked at how little even that was. My dislike for the film has nothing to do with the lack of monsters, indeed I was ready to bail on the film early on, but kept going because I wanted to see said beasties.Not worth your time, let alone your money

Two Lost Worlds is more of an adventure movie than a sci-fi but I still quite enjoyed this.After being attacked by pirates, the clipper ship The Queen settles in Queensland, Austrlia while its captain recovers from injuries received during the attack. He falls in love with one of the local girls there and pirates then raid the colony and they escape. After the ship is attacked again and set on fire, the few survivors end up on an uncharted island where they encounter dinosaurs and then a volcanic eruption and earthquake and are then rescued.The dinosaur footage in this movie is the fight from One Million BC, as is the disaster footage, where we get to see more enlarged lizards from that movie too.The only member of the cast I've heard of in this is James Arness (The Thing From Another World, Them!).Despite the low budget, Two Lost Worlds is worth watching. Not bad at all.Rating: 3 stars out of 5.