Crossbow?
Dino sized...
just the thing to ruin a raptors day.
Roxton we're losing daylight.
Is this what you had in mind?
Straight enough for arrows.
Start sharpening the ends into points.
Fine Iâll do the survey by myself.
Only a fool would go off by himself.
Roxton we need to find a way off this plateau...
not be playing around with bows and arrows.
Thereâs only one way off this plateau Challenger, alive.
What was that?
Hey you ugly son of a bitch over here.
Nice kitty.
Come on itâs me you want.
Thisâll do me.
At the dawn of the century
A band of adventures
set out to prove the impossible
The existence of a prehistoric world
The Visionary
The Heiress
The Hunter
The Scientist
and The Reporter
All chasing the story of a lifetime
Stranded in a savage land
Befriended by an untamed beauty
Together they fight to survive
In this amazing world of lost civilizations
and terrifying creatures
Always searching for a way home
A way out of...
the Lost World
Look what I found.
Heâs alright. But where the hell is he?
Does anybody else feel that?
Somebodyâs on their way back for the main course.
Itâs a whirlpool!
Where are the women? Challenger!
Swim for the edges!
Are you all right?
Take it easy Summerlee.
Oh my, that was rather invigorating.
Good are we all here.
Except for Roxton.
Like a bad penny.
Iâll take it over a T-Rex.
Tracks...
animal tracks here in the sand.
Hoof prints from a horse...
look there wheel tracks.
A horse drawn carriage here?
Must be some sort of civilization near by.
So letâs follow the tracks theyâve got to lead somewhere.
Somewhere with food and dry clothes.
Thereâs less than an hour of daylight left...
and weâve got one knife between us.
Sheâs right...
letâs keep the water at our back and build a fire.
Weâll strike out at first light.
What the hell?
Itâs a thigh bone...
femur if Iâm not mistaken.
Itâs human.
Itâs going to be dark soon letâs get that fire going.
Do you think your editor will believe any of this?
I just hope he gets a chance to read it.
So Roxton just curious...
why did you risk your life for me with that dinosaur?
Umm
Must have thought you were someone else.
What can you see?
My father...
the day he taught me to swim.
Your parents have been gone a long time.
Eleven years.
I will find them.
What if we were to find a way off this plateau would you leave?
Oh yes.
Iâm beginning to see how this place could grow on one.
Run theyâre coming! Run!
Split up!
Run!
Good Lord, his larynx is crushed poor devil.
Can you understand me?
Easy, easy donât strain your breathing.
How long have we been traveling?
Judging by the heat of the sun itâs midday.
Ten or twelve hours canât be.
Did anyone have a good look at our captors?
No but theyâre obviously intelligent.
They have tools, they have the wheel...
sort of.
And domesticated animals.
Quiet, I think weâre slowing.
Keep moving, human
Release them!
Quite a catch.
We mean you and your people no harm.
Guards seize him!
Tribune here he is.
This is the one who lead the escape.
Human...
what would you do in the world on your own?
Run rampant like a savage...
until you starved...
or perished in the belly of a beast?
Here you had purpose...
your life had meaning.
But now... kill him.
First lesson human...
defiance will not be tolerated.
Tribune?
Heâs strong he will be useful.
This one he is too old to work in the mines.
No wait! Please heâs harmless.
Oh for Pete sake. Tribune,
you look like a reasonable man.
Trust me...
heâll be more valuable to you alive...
we all will.
Noru? Put the men in the cells
including the old one.
Guards to the cell!
Tribune...
what about the women?
I have something more interesting in mind for them.
Lizard men what the hell are those things.
Theyâre our masters...
descended from the noblest of all beasts...
the dinosaurs.
Iâm Solomon, are you from the empire?
Professor Summerlee and if you mean the British Empire youâre entirely correct
British?
He doesnât.
Weâre strangers Iâm Challenger...
this is Roxton and Malone.
Those creatures you call them masters?
They rule and we serve.
Slaves?
It is the way.
Your way, not ours.
Itâs our only food for today.
Thereâs got to be a way out of here.
Not unless youâre a champion of the pit like me.
The pit?
A battle between two men...
to the death.
Three more kills Iâll be free.
Hey.
Donât bruise the merchandise.
What is this?
Looks like our ticket out of this place.
If that lizard man!
Tribune
If he thinks Iâm going to put this on heâs crazy.
Look...
the Tribune may be half lizard but heâs also half man.
Near as I can work it there are two ways out of here: alive or dinner.
Solomon your saying you kill people, men...
for sport.
No not sport, to survive.
The winners are granted life...
so they can fight again.
And what happens to the losers?
Youâre eating them.
For the champion...
and the new challenger.
Challenger?
Tomorrow...
when the sun reaches itâs zenith...
the warriors will do battle...
to the death.
There thatâs better.
Better than what.
Being dead
Here comes the competition.
Iâve never seen you before are you from a nearby village?
- Weâre from... - Yeah you could say that.
Quickly.
Iâve been thinking about you.
I detest spies.
Spies?
Unless theyâre on a spit roasting slowly.
Look weâre here by mistake.
Silence!
You were sent by the empire...
clever of my political enemies to use human spies this time.
We werenât sent by anyone.
The names...
Cassius...
and Melchior...
they mean nothing to you?
No.
I swear.
Do you know what they mean to me?
Two years...
in this blasted...
waist land.
Perhaps I shouldnât kill you.
Perhaps I should send you back with a message for them.
You may tell them...
that I will return to the Empire and when I do it will be as their ruler
as their emperor.
Tribune...
personally Iâm in favor of a little ambition.
Human...
the only reason youâre still alive...
is that you may please the warriors.
And who I wonder...
pleases you?
If I didnât know better...
Iâd swear your blood was as cold as mine.
Interesting.
I say Malone are you feeling perfectly well?
Iâll tell you in a minute.
How illuminating.
A little trick I picked up in New York.
Nothing like the education of a life well spent thatâs what I always say.
Well actually the trick is professor not getting caught.
Just as I thought, sulfur.
Oh fascinating Challenger absolutely fascinating what a relief...
it is to know the geological composition of our prison walls.
Sulfur, Charcoal...
has basic chemistry failed the all knowing Summerlee.
What is he talking about?
Gunpowder?
Exactly and our ticket out of here.
Yes but arenât you forgetting the Potassium Nitrate?
What did we walk through on the way to this cell?
A field.
And what were the slaves doing in that field?
Fertilizing it.
Saltpeter.
Your shoes man take them off scrape them very carefully...
we need every last speck.
You really think it will work?
Itâs our only chance. Now hurry up with this lock.
God knows what unspeakable things theyâre doing to Roxton.
No I canât take anymore.
Best eat your fill itâs probably your last.
We donât have to fight each other.
The masters have ordered it.
There is no choice.
Of course you have a choice youâre a man dammit not an animal.
Solomon listen to me...
youâre obviously a great warrior.
What would happen if you use your skills against the creatures?
No slave can openly defy the empire ...
it is impossible.
How do you know?
Because itâs never been done.
That my friend is very different then impossible.
Quiet...
donât speak of this again.
What now?
Now we choose.
Champion goes first.
You!
Now your turn.
If you please.
Cynara your warrior is a good man. Treat him well.
You two know each other?
Sheâs my sister.
I see how your soldiers respect you.
Your talents are wasted here.
Youâre stating the obvious, my dear.
Baby sitting a bunch of humans in the boondocks.
A man...
reptile...
of your stature and intelligence...
should clearly be ruling the empire.
Unfortunately...
my grotesque little minx.
The magistrates do not agree.
They see one such as myself...
leader of vision and power...
and they quake.
What if I...
could deliver the Empire to you?
Youâre human...
your uses are breading and mining...
and the occasional hors dâoeuvre.
I can offer you something that will bring your opponents to their knees.
What could you possibly have...
that would be of use to me?
Technology,
I come from a world full of wonders.
With me at your side Tribune...
entire continents will lay themselves at your feet.
The whole Empire will be at your mercy.
The forces of my world:
The politics, soldiers, slaves.
What you speak of...
is magic...
superstition.
Not magic...
...science.
Crude but hopefully effective.
Feels like one deadbolt on the other side.
Quickly.
We only get one chance at this.
Hurry up.
Thats enough, step back quickly!
Success
Letâs get out of here.
What's it this?
Not exactly the Marquise of Queensbury old boy but well done.
You see Tribune I told you there were wonders in my world.
What are you doing?
Itâs time we began.
Oh, no itâs not.
Youâre here for my pleasure.
Let me know when youâve had enough pleasure.
Thank you.
And now...
how can I serve you?
what are you doing?
You chose me didnât you?
Yes but not...
there thatâs better.
Better? You think Iâm ugly.
Ugly?
No I wouldnât say that.
Enough!
I could kill you right now.
But then youâd never find a way out.
A way out?
An escape.
Weâre human...
there is no escape.
Escape?
Youâre crazy.
Any slave who runs is hunted down killed.
Nothing is worth dying for.
Not even your freedom?
What freedom is there in death?
At least now Iâm alive.
Cynara this isnât living.
If you could choose freedom would you?
Yes.
Good Iâll need your help.
Iâm not a warrior like Solomon what can I do?
You can scream.
You refuse to tell me the secret of this.
Come on Challenger.
Youâre not going to let a little gunpowder stand between us and the highway.
Well if you donât value your life. Perhaps your friends will.
Quiet. That goes for you too Summerlee.
I refuse to stand by while you...
You must.
We canât allow gunpowder to fall in the hands of this tyrant
imagine what it will do to the balance of power in his world.
Youâre quite sure of old boy.
You senile charlatan,
this is your chance to finally be rid of me.
As you wish.
Compassion...
and sacrifice...
such nobility in a lower species.
Might almost be touching if it wasnât so pathetic...
but nobility can be a two edged sword.
I seem to be losing my touch.
What do you say now?
Is this creature to be your friend or my dinner?
Whatâs going on seize them!
Solomon howâs about giving me a hand?
Human...
you breathe and you die.
Your friend wonât get far.
Get these humans out of my site.
Excellent.
I just may keep you alive after all...
What is this?
This slave...
murdered a centurion of the Empire.
The female has escaped.
I should have known better then to consort with the lower species.
Did anyone ever tell you youâve got lousy timing.
Take this one to the mines
the rest of them to the pit.
Take them away!
See how they smell the stench of death already.
Fight with me not against me.
Donât worry Iâll try to cut clean.
Youâre a pal.
There now hey.
Back to work, keep working.
This woman is suffering from heat exhaustion.
Back to work.
Halt!
Food for the miners Tribuneâs orders.
I smell meat.
Let the games begin.
Iâm not going to fight you.
Fight me!
No
Fight human!
You may choose whether I live or die but only I choose whether I kill.
Die and your friends die...
win and they live.
Tell them to tie them a little tighter so the gunpowder doesnât leak out.
This is the last batch.
Good
itâs time to give Tribune and his men a little lesson in human ingenuity.
No
You must.
Weâre not animals.
Solomon, choose.
Freedom.
Roxton!
Roxton are you all right?
Nothing that a good whiskey wonât cure.
I must say I never thought weâd all make it through alive.
I hope you know that was my plan all along.
Science.
The empire is mine.
Freedom it still sounds strange on my tongue.
Youâll get used to it.
It would be easier if I had someone with me.
You have a whole colony.
I meant someone like you.
Goodbye Solomon.
No youâve got it turned around, thatâs the direction.
Once again youâre delusional.
Thereâs an ancient Chinese curse that says âMay you live in interesting timesâ.
Really know what I say?
What?
First rounds on me.