The Land Unknown

B-Movie Fan Club is a unique monthly film night programmed by our in-house B-Movie fanatic, Robin Elliot Knowles, and is one of the many community-led film strands run by Electric Palace Cinema.

A small crew led by Commander Harold Roberts (Jock Mahoney) and reporter Maggie Hathaway (Shirley Patterson) are on an expedition into Antarctica. During a helicopter flight they fly into a storm, where they almost collide in mid-air with a man-sized pterosaur. Crash-landing well below sea-level in a warm volcanic crater, they discover a steamy tropical jungle populated by living dinosaurs, giant flesh-eating plants, and fresh human footprints. The crew encounters many dangers and perils in the jungle in a fight for survival.

The story was allegedly inspired by the discovery of unusually warm water in Antarctica in 1947. Directed by Virgil W. Vogel, the film is notable for its low-budget special effects, which include men in dinosaur suits, puppets and monitor lizards standing in for dinosaurs. William Reynolds recalled the studio spent so much money on their mechanical dinosaur that they could not afford to shoot the film in colour as they first planned!

The dinosaurs featured in this film include a Tyrannosaurus, Elasmosaurus, Stegosaurus, Pterosaurs and a giant flesh-consuming plant.

Find out more about B Movie Fan Club – all tickets just £7.50 and have free candy included! Plus, get your special B Movie poster for charity.

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