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Based on a story by Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot is about the crew of a German submarine and the survivors of a ship they torpedoed banding together on a mysterious island full of dinosaurs and cave people. The British production takes a long while to get to the island, so much so that it feels like an entirely different movie once you’re there. The dinosaur effects are achieved Godzilla-style, with men stomping around in rubber suits. Effects not withstanding, the movie does muster a palpable sense of prehistoric atmosphere and the ending is admirably bleak.