Product Details

• Actors: Patrick Wayne, Doug McClure, Sarah Douglas, Dana Gillespie, Thorley Walters
• Directors: Kevin Connor
• Writers: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Patrick Tilley
• Producers: John Dark, Max Rosenberg, Samuel Z. Arkoff
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC
• Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
• VHS Release Date: March 7, 2000
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 0792843967
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #377,187 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

If you like big fake dinosaurs--and who doesn't?--this is the movie for you. Patrick Wayne stars as the intrepid Major Ben McBride, searching the Arctic for his lost friend. Sarah Douglas is at his side as Charly, the spunky lady photographer with a dainty puckish streak. As luck would have it, they come across a tropical zone that is home to big fake dinosaurs, surly Neanderthals, and nubile cavewomen with truly astonishing cleavage. Ah, but if only it were that simple. An evil rival tribe has been exterminating the gentle cave people and must be stopped. Whatever else you may want to say about producers Samuel Z. Arkoff and John Dark, they simply do not skimp on explosions. The People That Time Forgot has a detonation-filled corker of an ending that leaves the cast absolutely showered with dirt clods. Highly entertaining. --Ali Davis

Product Description

This "surefire box-office attraction" (L.A. Free Press) delivers a daring, diabolical, dinosaur-laden fantasy adventure that’s packed with "hair-raising beasties and erupting fire" (Daily Variety) every second.When an expedition in search of a lost colleague traces his last steps in the frozen Arctic, the team discovers a hidden tropical oasis in the middle of all the ice! As things quickly thaw out, clothes come off and long forgotten cavemen – and dinosaurs – come a-hunting for fresh meat. Soon, prehistoric hysteria sets in and it’s every man – and scantily clad woman – for himself.

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Who cares about finding Tyler Bowen. What happened to Lisa?, February 4, 2003

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Lawrance M. Bernabo (The Zenith City, Duluth, Minnesota) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: People That Time Forgot [VHS] (VHS Tape)

"The People That Time Forgot" is a 1977 sequel to the 1975 film "The Land That Time Forgot." In between these two there was the 1976 film "At the Earth's Core," which is mentioned mainly because all three films star Doug McClure, are directed by Kevin Connor, and are based on novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Ironically, the tag line for this film makes it sound like the films are a trilogy, although "At the Earth's Core" is based on the Pelucidar series. This film is definitely the weakest of the three, which is not all that surprising because it is based on the second book of a second rate series of potboilers by ERB. Once you get past Tarzan if you are looking for an ERB property to turn into a film you should be looking at the Martian novels about John Carter first, and then maybe Carson of Venus series or "The Outlaw of Torn." But this Burroughs rehash of "The Lost World" is not the place to go looking first.

The basic plot reminds you a lot of "Return to the Planet of the Apes. Major Ben McBridge (Patrick Wayne) leads an expedition to Antarctica to find his friend, the American adventurer Bowen Tyler (Doug McClure), who is marooned on the lost continent, Caprona, a.k.a., the land that time forgot, where there are dinosaurs and cavemen. McBridge has a plane, but it crashes and his little expedition has to survive until they find McClure (where they can break the good news that they are there to rescue him!). McClure had to deal with Germans from a U-Boat but McBridge has to put up with Lady Charlotte Cunningham (Sarah Douglas), who goes from royal pain to damsel in distress pretty quickly once things start happening, Dr. Edwin Norfolk (Thorley Walters), who fortunately knows everything about dinosaurs and cavemen, and Hogan (Shane Rimmer), the faithful side kick who is the obvious first choice to be dinosaur food.

"The People That Time Forgot" provides the same sort of lousy special effects that plagued "The Land That Time Forgot," but without the non-stop action and adventure that redeemed that first film. Besides, Tyler has ditched Lisa, his paramour from the first film and replaced her with Ajor (Dana Gillespie), a cave woman who probably took the pretty English biologist apart with that big knife. There is no need to watch this sequel out of a sense of completeness to the "story," because you are not going to be happy to the ending. However, pay attention to the Executioner, who is played by David Prowse, who came to this set after having wrapped up a little film called "Star Wars."

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars DON'T BUY THIS LAME DUCK EDITION, July 18, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: The People That Time Forgot (DVD)

For years now, THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT was not on DVD .Obviously some moron thought it was better release the second part first. Looks like he was fired and THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT is coming to DVD.

THE GOOD NEWS except for those of us that already bought THE PEOPLE THAT TIME FORGOT and have every reason to feel ripped off:

It's Part of an MGM Midnite Movies Double Feature wave
Street Date August 24th 2004
THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT/THE PEOPLE THAT TIME FORGOT

THE BAD NEWS:

EXCLUSIVE to BEST BUY

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good film, November 11, 2002

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Illumination "G.Smith" (Beds, UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: People That Time Forgot [VHS] (VHS Tape)

A few years after the happened in Land That Time Forgot, and the navy have returned to the lost world of Caprona to find the missing survivor from the previous film. This carries on its predecessor's trend of strong characters and good storylines - and the monsters are good considering the low budget. It also develops things mentioned in Land, such as the lost island being a living thing with creatures as cells moving through its bloodstream and a volcanic self-defence against any invading viral strains. Certainly well worth watching.