Unknown island (1948)

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almost 50 years before jurassic park... an amateur photographer, his fiancée and their companions take a perilous journey to a place where dinosaurs, giant sloths and other prehistoric creatures thrive. filmed in vibrant cinecolor at a time when many movies were confined to black and white and featuring eye-popping special effects, "unknown island", directed by jack bernhard, offers a thrilling look at modern man's confrontation with the primordial past. will man conquer the ancient beast or will he be vanquished from the earth instead?
ted osborne (philip reed) is the obsessed photographer determined to visually capture the anachronistic creatures ... at any cost. also along for the ride are osborne's beautiful fiancée, carol lane (virgina grey), the disreputable captain tarnowski (richard denning, best known for "hawaii five-o"), a handsome ex-marine haunted by an earlier horrific experience with the ancient animals. soon desperate to escape, they struggle for their lives in fantastic encounters with the prehistoric monsters.