Source: Neatorama
Look! It’s Cap’n Huffenpuff! Oh, wait, that was last week. It’s actually Wallace Beery in the role of Professor Challenger in the 1925 film The Lost World, although Professor Challenger was used by Bob Clampett as the model for Cap’n Huffenpuff. The film was also the inspiration for 1933’s King Kong (both films involving the bringing back of a prehistoric creature to civilization) and other works of science fiction.
The Lost World was a faithful adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1912 novel, with but a few deviations. Even today, in the age of Jurassic Park, it is quite watchable. From the IMDb:
In this 1925 silent era film,…
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