special effects are improved, despite the odd dodgy model, and on the whole the film is excellent viewing.

quite funny as each tries to one up the other in terms of who is superior, man or woman. Wayne is a more commanding lead here than he was in the same year's SINBAD & THE EYE OF THE TIGER. He just wasn't convincing as Sinbad. It's a shame Wayne didn't do more fantasy adventure movies.Douglas is also good as the feisty magazine photographer who doesn't mind getting her hands dirty. Douglas also sports Princess Leia buns on her head. She does get to put her hair down during the big finale when the girls are about to be decapitated. Douglas would screen test for SUPERMAN after this movie as would her co-star Dana Gillespie.Walters is his usual chipper self portraying another great and batty character role as the slightly nutty Dr. Edwin Norton. Walters also gets in on the action with his fellow co-stars. Walters is always reliable and plays very odd and eccentric characters in his movies. He doesn't disappoint here.Dana Gillespie is simply the hottest cave girl since Raquel Welch. Her breasts threatening to erupt from her 'barely there' top. A protégé of David Bowie, she still sings today I gather. She also tested for SUPERMAN and lost out to Sarah Douglas for the role of Ursa. There is a hint that Gillespie's character Ajor, may have had some romantic involvement with Tyler.McClure has what amounts to a guest appearance as you do not see him until towards the end. He is held captive in the Mountain of Skulls which is ruled by the vicious Nagas, samurai-like warriors who have hideously deformed faces beneath their masks.Shane Rimmer has a very comedic turn as the bumbling pilot Hogan who must fix the damaged plane. As more pterodactyls pass over, he shoots them down then marks them on the side of the plane. All his scenes are peppered with humorous bits of dialog. He is incredibly loyal to the Major. Rimmer also returned for the fourth film in the series WARLORDS OF ATLANITS the only one not a Burroughs story as a villain along with John Ratzenberger who went on to play Cliff on CHEERS.Frequent heavy Milton Reid has a role as the evil Sabbala and Hammer performer Dave Prowse plays the executioner.One of my favorite movies I saw as a kid, it is still a favorite. The film sports an even greater sense of adventure than its two predecessors. A fine cast and very well drawn characters help enliven the film. There are less monsters on display here. Most of them are trotted out during the conclusion as the heroes are being "chased" by the live volcano and several different creatures including the sword wielding Naga's attempt to impede their progress.The score is very impressive and really needs a CD release It has since been released on the composers own label . I have a lobby set for both LAND and PEOPLE as well as posters. The film was shot in the Canary Islands and at Pinewood Studios. Love the volcano set and the Mountain of Skulls which is obviously a painting but the interior is quite frightening with the walls literally made up of thousands of skulls from victims of the Naga's.Two memorable set pieces involve the attack on the bi-plane by a pterodactyl near the beginning resulting in a forced landing and the finale where the heroes fight it out with the Nagas, snake creatures inside a tunnel as well as a prickly monster in a cave adorned with stalagmites and stalagtites.The MGM DVD is gorgeous. I have one small problem though. There is one scene missing Posted a thread detailing the scene that is present on a recording I have of it from television from back in 1980. It's basically an extension of a scene in the DVD. About a minutes worth of dialog that further explains the volcano god Nagarumata.The film also won or was nominated for a couple of awards from the Academy of Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Horror IMDB says it was only nominated but I have read that the film did indeed win an award . Highly recommended if you like sci-fi fantasy adventure movies.

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! .

City of Skulls where he is being held prisoner. After fighting off several warriors, they escape but Tyler is killed. The City of Skulls is ruled by a huge bald bloke who reminds me of Tor Johnson of Plan 9 From Outer Space fame. They escape the volcanic eruption at the end. Other Prehistoric monsters in this movie include a Stegosaurus, a pair of Creatosaurus and what looks like an Ankylosaurus. These monsters don't look too bad, but you can't beat stop-motion.This movie is worth watching, especially if you a dinosaur movie fan like me.Rating: 4 stars out of 5.

untouched by time Artic island populated by rampaging dinosaurs and warring tribes of primitive cavemen. Aided by a lone foxy, friendly cave babe David Bowie's luscious onetime girlfriend Dana Gillispie in tight, skimpy, clingy leather Frederick's of the Stone Age apparel that shows off a lot of her fine, fabulously full-figured physique , our brave foursome travel the perilous countryside in search of a missing explorer beefy series regular Doug McClure sporting a bushy beard . Patrick Son of John Wayne does a pretty fair Clint Eastwood impersonation as our intrepid mighty macho man main hero, although he's clearly upstaged by the beauteous Sarah Douglas Ursa in the first two "Superman" movies as a feisty lady photographer, Thorley Walters as a hearty anthropologist, and Shane Rimmer as a crusty alcoholic airplane pilot. Kevin Connor's spirited direction keeps things moving along at a brisk, unflagging tempo, ably abetted by John Scott's rousing full-orchestral score and Alan Hume's picturesque cinematography. Furthermore, the bargain basement special effects are lovably shoddy, veteran villains Milton Reid and David "Darth Vador" Prowse make perfectly pernicious last reel appearances as two evil primordial baddies, and with the exception of some mild violence and equally tame profanity the film overall sweetly captures a certain good-natured innocence that's actually quite endearing in its undisguised naiveté. In short, this one's loads of nice, zippy, never-a-dull-moment lively and eventful fun.

island located amid a polar enclosure, the mother-ship keeps their track from semi-frozen waters. Unaware of what to expect, they glide into a tropical isle, well sheltered from view by snow-capped ridges and peaks. Stumbling into a giant pterodactyl-us, they crash-land and realization sets in—expect anything, except it will be prehistoric.They encounter a number of dinosaurs, with the props made to be as convincing as possible, given this is an old film—one of the precursors to time travel and dinosaur films recurrent today, such as A Walk With Dinosaurs. Concurrent with the film'S overarching, there is a created language for the tribe of Nargas, who are fantastically costumed. Learnt broken English for the set's Sheena, Ajor, eliminates a lot of misunderstandings between her and the protagonists.Even though adventure prevailed and the mission went awry, it still incorporates to make it a task to pin down satisfactorily. Ah, time travel.