Review: The Land That Time Forgot
During WWI, a German U-boat commanded by Capt. Von Schoenvorts (John McEnery, apparently dubbed by Anton Diffring) sinks a cargo boat. That boat’s passengers (Doug McClure and Susan Penhaligon among them) wrangle their way aboard the sub when it rises to the surface. After some scuffling, the two parties agree to a tenuous truce until they can find suitable neutral land to port. Instead, they losing their way and end up on an island called Caprona, which houses dinosaurs, neanderthals, and a volcano. Anthony Ainley plays German Lt. Dietz, who is our obligatory disruptive mutineer. Average adventure film from Amicus Films may as well have been titled “The Sub That Wasted Time and Forgot to Go Somewhere” . Directed by Kevin Connor ( “From Beyond the Grave” , “Motel Hell” , the much better “The People That Time Forgot” ), it’s at least 30 minutes before we get out of the submarine an onto land. Which means it’s 30 minutes worth of a submarine movie, and that’s not what I ...