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,
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