This Lost World is a splendid BBC TV dramatisation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous adventure story. Bob Hoskins makes an unusually genial Professor Challenger, far less of a bully than Doyle's character, but his slightly stereotyped companions are nicely filled out by a solid cast. James Fox is Challenger's more timid but still covertly adventurous rival, Tom Ward is the moustachioed big game hunter who faces an Allosaurus with an elephant gun, and Matthew Rhys plays the tagalong reporter hoping to impress his faithless fiancée.
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Classical in form, resolved, earnest and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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Cast
- Bob HoskinsProf. Challenger
- James FoxProf. Summerlee
- Tom WardLord Roxton
- Matthew RhysEdward Malone
- Elaine CassidyAgnes Cluny
- Peter FalkTheo Kerr
- Bianca RoeSelena
- Nathaniel LeesIndian chief
- Joanna PageGladys
- Robert HardyProf. Illingworth
Crew
- Stuart OrmeDirector
- Tony MulhollandScreenplay
- Adrian HodgesScreenplay
- Arthur Conan DoyleNovel
- David OddDirector of Photography
- Rob LaneOriginal Music Composer
- David YardleyEditor
- Christopher HallProducer
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