The Lost World (1960 film) Irwin Allen even tried to sell a TV series based on the film, as he had done with "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea", but was unsuccessful. Stock footage was also used in the 1970 movie "When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth". The Lost World (1960 film) The Lost World is a 1960 De Luxe Color and a CinemaScope fantasy adventure film loosely based on the novel of the same name by Arthur Conan Doyle and directed by Irwin Allen. The plot of the film revolves around the exploration of a plateau in Venezuela inhabited by cannibals, dinosaurs, carnivorous plants,
Land of the Lost (1991 TV series) yet to be released on DVD or Blu-ray. Like its 1970s counterpart, the inhabitants of the Land of the Lost are mostly dinosaurs. An iguana can be seen occasionally. A creature, called an "osongi", which resembles an iguana, once bit Tom. A spitting viper called the "shika" is seen in the Valley of Death, and it blinds Kevin temporarily. Termites have also been found. A "Triceratops" named Princess is sometimes used as transportation for Christa and Stink. Christa (perhaps unconsciously) named her after a dog her family once owned. Princess is distinct from the other Triceratops in that her right