And the most misleading poster award goes to ISLAND OF THE LOST . I mean if you've got a poster with a screaming face of a creature with yellow eyes , green skin and very sharp teeth you might think you're going to be watching a horror film . It really is a fantastic poster - for another film entirely and it's amazing if the marketing men didn't run in to any trouble with this . It's an incredibly stupid idea too because no responsible parent is going to let their children watch a gory horror . And yet ISLAND OF THE LOST is a Walt Disney type family film ! It wasn't until halfway through watching this family friendly non horror film that I realised I'd seen it many years ago one morning on ITV circa 1983 . It's hardly unforgettable must see cinema but the reason I remember it is because it's got some of the most bizarre monsters ever seen on the silver screen - vicious murderous ostriches with horns on their head , that kick their victims senseless and eat them alive which if nothing else shows an imagination of sorts even if it's by default . There is another jarring aspect and that is the teenage lad never resists the opportunity to play a tune while his siblings put on a sexy dance show Listen sonny these are your siblings you're drooling over . I suppose it could have been worse with the family shipwrecked in the Vatican or BBC television centre , but not much worse

I finally found it. I saw this as a kid. That was back when I would watch any movie until 4 in the morning, I like movies that much. This was the only movie that I saw back then that made me regret watching it. I remember telling my older brother "The best character is the sailboat. And they only show it a little at the beginning, but at least it does make a re-appearance as wreckage at the end." The whole thing is bizarre and it had to be one of those situations where the producer wanted to go to Bahama on vacation so he took a camera and some pals and then tried to piece together what they shot after they got back stateside and sobered up.The makeup on the ostriches is laughable, and the phony fangs on the dogs are as cheezy as the plastic skeletons. In between the bad acting, ludicrous score and ridiculous plot, its like National Geographic nature film, with pointless underwater shots that add nothing to the story. Hey, if you rent that underwater camera, you better use it.The dogs attacking the turtle was the only authentic thing in the whole movie, and it would get them arrested in the US if they staged it here, pity the ASPCA was not on set to prevent it.OK, fun time, lets do the rewrite. Loose the dogs and ostriches. Let the wild man be doing the king test sure, but lets have him kidnap the 11-year-old girl, to take a wife. Savages. So then the rest of the idiots try to save her, all egged on by the British guy. They fail, but it turns out the British guy is a pedophile, so the savage is really a hero, and he really just wanted the girl as a slave, since who wants to marry a kid, they are too little, too little. They all make the British guy walk the plank, the little girls enjoys being a slave, the other 4 all hook up, and a happy happy ending.

There's nostalgic charm if you're a fan of the films of this era. I happen to hugely admire the Ivan Tors film and TV projects. This is possibly a script from the 1950s, as it was co-written by actor Richard Carlson, who made SF films with Tors in the 1950s. It's certainly creaky stuff that seems outdated even by the mid-1960s when it was made. It's far more a fantasy than the usual Tors material, which strove for believability and achieved it. This doesn't. The animal sequences, which were always top-notch in Tors films thanks to trainer Ralph Helfer (inventor of affection training), but here they are awkwardly shot and silly. The cast is likable but the script is just not up to making anything work to its advantage.

I obtained this title from a mate last year (2001). I had been after it for a while.Robin Hood star Richard Greene and family, including Luke Haplin from Flipper end up on an uncharted island in the South Seas and encounter dangers such as sabre tooth dogs and ostriches withfins attached. They end up shipwrecked when their boat gets destroyed in a storm and they build their own raft to escape at the end of the movie. Through all of this, they are being watched by natives who try and capture them, but they fail.I enjoyed this movie and is worth getting hold of if you are lucky.Rating: 4 out of 5 stars.