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Wonderful character development!

Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

It's easy to pick on and ridicule the movie "The People That Time Forgot" (hereafter "PTF"), based on "Tarzan" creator Edgar Rice Burroughs's prehistoric fantasy tale. Many posters have detailed the clunky special effects and matte painting backgrounds, anachronistic features such as Hun-like barbarians with horses (!) in a secluded tropical land within frozen Antarctica (maybe it had thermal springs), buxom Narga cavewoman Ajor (Dana Gillespie) with flawless makeup and hair, and both barbarians and the primitive Narga tribe speaking fluent if stilted English (although "PTF" explains this miracle by stating that Bowen Tyler (Doug McClure) instructed both factions how to speak English.)Tyler was the explorer in PTF's predecessor movie "The Land That Time Forgot" left behind in the savage land (called Caprona) by the rest of his team. "PTF" chronicles the efforts of a new team to locate and rescue Tyler from Caprona. The leader and pilot of the rickety bi-plane that flies the team over the icy Antarctic mountains to Caprona is Ken-Doll handsome and resolute Major Ben McBride (Patrick Wayne) with his brown Superman hair-curl. Hogan (Shane Rimmer) is the boozy gunner and mechanic who also provides physical comic relief in his attempts to repair the bi-plane after it crashes in the desolate landscape. Financing the rescue expedition is comely, somewhat haughty, but game photographer Lady Charlotte "Charlie" Cunningham (Sarah Douglas) with her aviatrix get-up and mini Princess Leia 'do. Last but certainly not least important is knowledgeable paleontologist and scholar Norfolk (Thorley Walters), eager to explore Caprona's ancient fauna. After some convincing, the suspicious Ajor agrees to lead them to Tyler. Can McBride's team locate Tyler? Even if they do, can they bring him –and themselves- back to civilization alive?I don't completely disagree with "PTF"'s detractors and the aforementioned flaws they point out. The flaws are there. Nevertheless, I found "PTF" more than reasonably entertaining and involving because all the characters act more or less logically and rationally and yet display personal shortcomings without looking buffoonish, yes, even Hogan. The action and the prehistoric creature/human encounters are well-planned, suspenseful, tense, and meaningful, because you care about these people and their mission. The fiery human sacrifice ritual and volcanic explosion climax are also stirring. "PTF" at heart may be an improbable pulp jungle tale, but it's a surprisingly serious and well-told one.Two other "PTF" features are especially notable. First is the positive portrayal of Norfolk. Unlike other academicians, professors, and scholars who are smart but lack physical power and courage in a dangerous situation, Norfolk is no wimp. With his sword/stick concealed within an umbrella handle, Norfolk can fight and defend himself and others with the best of them, even while still obsessed with preserving his notes. Second is the actual, if imperfect, portrayal of real prehistoric dinosaurs and reptiles. Everyone recognizes the stegosaurus, the carnivorous ceratosaurus, and perhaps the pterodactyl that attempts to sideswipe the bi-plane. However, few of us may recognize that the two giant lizards menacing our tied-up heroes sprawled on the ground are known as Megalanias, ferocious Komodo Dragon-like 20- foot lizards that lived in Australia more than 2 million years ago. Even fewer of us would know that the huge armored lizard attacking our heroes in the cave is known as a scutosaurus, a 10-foot long herbivorous reptile that actually predates the dinosaurs by hundreds of millions of years and is considered the ancestor of the turtle. I just happened to know this because I'm a prehistoric animal geek. I appreciated that "PTF" took the time to re- create these creatures fairly accurately, even though they looked a little ungainly.In the final analysis, PTF is not a soaring work of genius. However, it's fun, serviceable entertainment which is an acceptable way to use up any idle time you have.

The People That Time Forgot (1977) ** 1/2 (out of 4) Sequel to THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT finds a group of people going to the mysterious island after the letter written by Tyler (the survivor of the first film) is located. The group finally make their way to the island where they encounter all sorts of prehistoric creatures and cavemen while at the same time trying to locate Tyler. Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel is turned into a fairly entertaining movie but I think PEOPLE falls well short of LAND for a couple of reasons. I think the biggest reason is that the characters here aren't nearly as interesting as the ones in the original film. It seems like these characters are just the typical cardboard characters that you'd expect to see in a movie like this and there was very little attempt to make them more interesting. I think it's also fair to say that this sequel just seems like the first film made over without as much energy or passion. With that said, if you did enjoy the first movie then it's pretty safe to say that you'll at least be entertained by this one. As with the first one we're given some pretty good action scenes and as long as you don't take anything too serious you should at least be able to smile. The special effects of the creatures are somewhat better here but there's still no question that the dinosaurs are a long ways from what we'd eventually see in something like JURASSIC PARK. The performances aren't that bad with Patrick Wayne leading the way with Sarah Douglas and Shane Rimmer offering nice support. Doug McClure makes a very brief cameo but Dana Gillespie clearly steals the film as a cave woman. Speaking of Gillespie, the greatest special effect in the film is her costume and how amazing it is that her breasts never come popping out. THE PEOPLE THAT TIME FORGOT is a step down from the previous movie but fans of this type of thing should still be entertained.

Before 'Star Wars' came along, '70's sci-fi movies were fairly bleak and pessimistic about Man's future, such as 'Zardoz', 'Soylent Green' and 'The Final Programme'. But there were one or two family fantasy movies about, such as the trilogy based on the novels of 'Tarzan' creator Edgar Rice Burroughs that began with 'The Land That Time Forgot' ( 1975 ). Produced by John Dark and directed by Kevin Connor, with American he-man Doug McClure as the lead, they were mocked in 'Red Dwarf', but four decades on still manage to work as entertainment, and were made on low budgets which makes them all the more remarkable.'People' begins with an expedition to the Arctic wastes to locate Bowen Tyler ( McClure ). The crew includes Ben McBride ( Patrick Wayne, son of John ), an old friend of Tyler's, Hogan ( Shane Rimmer ), an alcoholic pilot, Norfolk ( Thorley Walters ), a bumbling scientist, and Lady 'Charly' Cunningham ( Sarah Douglas, sporting a pre-'Princess Leia' hairstyle ), a crusading feminist news woman ( who is only there as her uncle's newspaper is funding the trip ). Taking to the sky in a plane, they are attacked by a Pterodactyl and are forced to land. According to Tyler's journal ( which was found in a bottle off the coast of Scotland ), this island is Caprona, and is inhabited by prehistoric monsters and primitive tribes people. Among the latter is stunningly sexy jazz singer Dana Gillespie as 'Ajor', who looks like she has fallen off the front cover of 'Cave Girl Monthly'. As you can probably guess, our heroes must battle both monsters and tribes people alike in a bid to survive. This was the 'Indiana Jones' of its day. The nice thing about these movies is that they are not camp, though they have humour. McClure does not show up until an hour into the picture ( a good thing some might say ) and then gets himself killed. As 'McBride', Wayne is no De Niro but does need to be ( he does look astonishingly like John Barrowman though! ). It was made in an era where heroes in movies did not suffer from angst, hence we are not treated to long-winded accounts of how McBride is racked with guilt over his brother's death ( or whatever ). The characters are one dimensional, and the film is better for it. Thorley Walters is, a ever, a delight to watch, and what can I say about Sarah Douglas except "Phwoar!". Mind you, she gets strong competition in the eye candy department from Gillespie.It goes without saying that special effects have improved leaps and bounds since this was made, but that's no reason ( not in my book ) to dismiss the movie as rubbish. Good effects don't necessarily mean a good movie. Dark and Connor made two more films together ( one with McClure ): 'Warlords Of Atlantis' ( 1978 ) and 'Arabian Adventure' ( 1979 ), both derived from original scripts by 'Dr.Who' writer Brian Hayles.If you decide to watch this, have a big box of popcorn handy ( just be careful you don't choke when Gillespie appears. Obviously they had not invented underwear on Caprona yet! ).

"The Land that Time Forgot" was actually a rather great camp classic of the 70s. The special effects in that film were just horrendous, yet the movie was nothing short of entertaining and superb when it comes to fun and energy. The sequel, titled "The People that Time Forgot" is also kind of a like a movie that time forgot. The special effects used on the dinosaurs are a bit better than those achieved in the prequel (yet the pterodactyls still can't move their wings at all!) The movie is fun to watch, yet people have almost forgotten it entirely this day."The People that Time Forgot" features the exact kind of cast that you would expect from a caveman-dinosaur flick. Adventurers, scientists, dinosaurs, cavemen, and volcanic eruptions. So it is pretty typical for a film of its type. Acting by the cast, including Patrick Wayne and Doug McClure, was well regarded in my opinion of the film. And the fights between the humans and the cavemen, as you see in a lot of films like this, they were just plain old good fun.But what doesn't work about "The People that Time Forgot" that did work in "The Land that Time Forgot"? The sequel is just not full of the energy and originality that the first one had. And it just didn't have the overall feeling that the first one did.