History Film / TheLandUnknown

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Lt. Carmen starts trying to torture the location of Hunter's cache out of him with a burning torch after Hunter hits the stranded explorers with a SadisticChoice, then tries forcing himself on Maggie.

The movie involves a US Navy expedition into Antarctica to investigate some unusual warm-water springs. One of the expedition’s helicopters, carrying four people, flies into a storm, damaging the rotor. The chopper is forced down into a massive, surprisingly warm valley below a thick layer of mist. They soon discover the valley is home to a gaggle of prehistoric creatures, kept alive by the warm springs heating the area and keeping the Antarctic chill at bay. They also meet a survivor from a previous Antarctic expedition, named Hunter, who’s gone a little crazy from his time in the valley. He offers to guide them to a cache of supplies that’ll help them fix the helicopter, but demands that the sole woman on the helicopter crew, Maggie Hathaway, remain with him. This goes over about as well as you’d expect with everyone else, but with the radio’s battery too low to get a signal out of the valley, time is running out for the survivors…

* BehemothBattle: Two massive “stegosauruses” (really giant monitor lizards) get into one.

* DumbDinos: Dumber than most. A Tyrannosaurus loses track of one of the characters… because said character tripped and rolled under a log ''that the Tyrannosaurus walks over only a few seconds later'', in wide-open terrain.
* EnemyRisingBehind: The Elasmosaurus does this to Maggie once, before going after her.
* GoMadFromTheIsolation: Hunter got hit by this pretty hard.

* HelicopterBlender: A subdued example when a Tyrannosaurus attacks the chopper, only to receive a large cut across the belly by the rotating blades for its trouble. It immediately flees.

* HellishPupils: the Elasmosaurus has odd goat-like horizontally-slit pupils.
* IChooseToStay: Hunter seems to be trying to do this as everyone else leaves, but then the Elasmosaurus attacks him, and the chopper rescues him anyway after he’s knocked out.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Lt. Carmen starts trying to torture the location of Hunter’s cache out of him with a burning torch after Hunter hits the stranded explorers with a SadisticChoice, then tries forcing himself on Maggie.

* MysteriousAntarctica: The Devil’s Chimney is located here.
* NeutralFemale: Maggie isn’t exactly helpful most of the time.

* ProphetEyes: The Tyrannosaurus has dead white eyes.
* PteroSoarer: Though massive, none of them actually attack the cast. Their bat-wings, however, land them solidly in this trope.

* ScienceMarchesOn: The Tyrannosaurus is a textbook example of outdated ideas about dinosaurs, being slow and clumsy, dragging its tail, having three-fingered hands…
* {{Slurpasaur}}: There are a lot of these wandering around the Devil’s Chimney, generally giant monitor lizards. One character calls them “Stegosauruses”, which is very… inaccurate.

* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Hunter was one of the survivors of a crashed plane from a 1947 US Navy expedition to Antarctica. “Operation HIGHJUMP”, from 1947, did indeed suffer a plane crash in a remote area in which three people were killed, but the survivors were all eventually rescued. Rumors of warm-water springs being found by the expedition were also a major source of inspiration.

* StockDinosaurs: A T. rex, an Elasmosaurus, several pterosaurs, and some slurpasaurs badly identified as “Stegosaurus”.

''The Land Unknown'' is a 1957 American ScienceFiction adventure movie about a LostWorld filled with dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures. It was directed by Virgil W. Vogel, and stars Jock Mahoney and Shirley Patterson.

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[[caption-width-right:297:The dinosaurs don't look quite this impressive in the actual movie.]]

“The Land Unknown” is a 1957 science fiction/adventure movie about a LostWorld filled with dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures. It was directed by Virgil W. Vogel, and stars Jock Mahoney and Shirley Patterson.

* TyrannosaurusRex: There are a few of these wandering around.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Lt. Carmen starts trying to torture the location of Hunter’s cache out of him with a burning torch after Hunter hits the stranded explorers with a Sadistic Choice, then tries forcing himself on Maggie.

* Slurpasaur: There are a lot of these wandering around the Devil’s Chimney, generally giant monitor lizards. One character calls them “Stegosauruses”, which is very… inaccurate.

AttemptedRape: Hunter goes after Maggie, only to be stopped by Lt. Carmen, who proceeds to knock him senseless on a nearby rock after a fistfight.

BehemothBattle: Two massive “stegosauruses” (really giant monitor lizards) get into one.

BlowThatHorn: Hunter has one that blasts out a Brown Note against the local predators, as seen below.

BrownNote: Hunter’s conch horn emits a very loud one of these. Unlike some examples, it simply makes them turn around and go away, and it doesn’t seem to work on humans.

DamselInDistress: Maggie, a couple of times.

DumbDinos: Dumber than most. A Tyrannosaurus loses track of one of the characters… because said character tripped and rolled under a log ''that the Tyrannosaurus walks over only a few seconds later'', in wide-open terrain.

EnemyRisingBehind: The Elasmosaurus does this to Maggie once, before going after her.

GoMadFromTheIsolation: Hunter got hit by this pretty hard.

HeelFaceTurn: Hunter is thankful to Commander Harold Roberts for chewing out Lt. Carmen for trying to torture the location of the supply cache out of Hunter. He gives them a map to the cache out of gratitude, and is much more reasonable from this point on.

HelicopterBlender: A subdued example when a Tyrannosaurus attacks the chopper, only to receive a large cut across the belly by the rotating blades for its trouble. It immediately flees.

HellishCopter: A less-extreme version, the chopper goes down in one piece and only needs some minor repairs. Unfortunately, an important part is broken, and the only hope of fixing it might lie in Hunter’s cache.

HellishPupils: the Elasmosaurus has odd goat-like horizontally-slit pupils.

IChooseToStay: Hunter seems to be trying to do this as everyone else leaves, but then the Elasmosaurus attacks him, and the chopper rescues him anyway after he’s knocked out.

IntrepidReporter: Maggie tries to be one. YMMV on how successful she is.

KickTheSonOfABitch: Lt. Carmen starts trying to torture the location of Hunter’s cache out of him with a burning torch after Hunter hits the stranded explorers with a Sadistic Choice, then tries forcing himself on Maggie.

LivingDinosaurs: Naturally.

LostWorld: The Devil’s Chimney, a deep valley where volcanic activity both keeps the place warm (and dinosaur-friendly) and constantly melts and vaporizes enough glacial runoff to bathe the entire place in cloud cover.

MacGuffin: Hunter’s cache of supplies becomes this.

ManEatingPlant: One of them eats a small mammal, then attacks Maggie.

MorePredatorsThanPrey: A particularly egregious case. The only prey item we see is a small mammal that is quickly eaten by the carnivorous plant mentioned above.

MysteriousAntarctica: The Devil’s Chimney is located here.

NeutralFemale: Maggie isn’t exactly helpful most of the time.

OminousFog: The Devil’s Chimney is totally shrouded in it. It also serves as cloud cover from the air, explaining why (almost) nobody knew about the place before the movie began.

PrehistoricMonster: Quite a few. All fangs and teeth, no brains at all.

ProphetEyes: The Tyrannosaurus has dead white eyes.

PteroSoarer: Though massive, none of them actually attack the cast. Their bat-wings, however, land them solidly in this trope.

TheRadioDiesFirst: Or rather, loses power. Recharging the battery doesn’t give it ''quite'' enough oomph to send out a distress signal.

ScienceMarchesOn: The Tyrannosaurus is a textbook example of outdated ideas about dinosaurs, being slow and clumsy, dragging its tail, having three-fingered hands…

Slurpasaur: There are a lot of these wandering around the Devil’s Chimney, generally giant monitor lizards. One character calls them “Stegosauruses”, which is very… inaccurate.

SoleSurvivor: Hunter is the last survivor of a 1947 plane crash, and buried three other people who were killed by the local wildlife.

StockDinosaurs: A T. rex, an Elasmosaurus, several pterosaurs, and some slurpasaurs badly identified as “Stegosaurus”.

StockNessMonster: An Elasmosaurus acts as a particularly aggressive one of these.

TyrannosaurusRex: There are a few of these wandering around.

VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Hunter was one of the survivors of a crashed plane from a 1947 US Navy expedition to Antarctica. “Operation HIGHJUMP”, from 1947, did indeed suffer a plane crash in a remote area in which three people were killed, but the survivors were all eventually rescued. Rumors of warm-water springs being found by the expedition were also a major source of inspiration.

“The Land Unknown” is a 1957 science fiction/adventure movie about a Lost World filled with dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures. It was directed by Virgil W. Vogel, and stars Jock Mahoney and Shirley Patterson.

IChoosetoStay: Hunter seems to be trying to do this as everyone else leaves, but then the Elasmosaurus attacks him, and the chopper rescues him anyway after he’s knocked out.

DumbDinos: Dumber than most. A Tyrannosaurus loses track of one of the characters… because said character tripped and rolled under a log *that the Tyrannosaurus walks over only a few seconds later*, in wide-open terrain.

TheRadioDiesFirst: Or rather, loses power. Recharging the battery doesn’t give it *quite* enough oomph to send out a distress signal.

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[[caption-width-right:350:The dinosaurs don't look quite this good in the movie itself.]]

BlowthatHorn: Hunter has one that blasts out a Brown Note against the local predators, as seen below.

DamselinDistress: Maggie, a couple of times.

GoMadfromtheIsolation: Hunter got hit by this pretty hard.

slurpasaur: There are a lot of these wandering around the Devil’s Chimney, generally giant monitor lizards. One character calls them “Stegosauruses”, which is very… inaccurate.

Tyrannosaurusrex: There are a few of these wandering around.

Slurpasaur: There are a lot of these wandering around the Devil’s Chimney, generally giant monitor lizards. One character calls them “Stegosauruses”, which is very… inaccurate.

VeryLooselyBasedonaTrueStory: Hunter was one of the survivors of a crashed plane from a 1947 US Navy expedition to Antarctica. “Operation HIGHJUMP”, from 1947, did indeed suffer a plane crash in a remote area in which three people were killed, but the survivors were all eventually rescued. Rumors of warm-water springs being found by the expedition were also a major source of inspiration.

KicktheSonofaBitch: Lt. Carmen starts trying to torture the location of Hunter’s cache out of him with a burning torch after Hunter hits the stranded explorers with a Sadistic Choice, then tries forcing himself on Maggie.