This Lost World is a splendid BBC TV dramatisation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous adventure story. Bob Hoskins makes an unusually genial Professor Challenger, far less of a bully than Doyle’s character, but his slightly stereotyped companions are nicely filled out by a solid cast. James Fox is Challenger’s more timid but still covertly adventurous rival, Tom Ward is the moustachioed big game hunter who faces an Allosaurus with an elephant gun, and Matthew Rhys plays the tagalong reporter hoping to impress his faithless fiancĂ©e.
Length 150 minutes
Bob Hoskins | James Fox | Tom Ward | Matthew Rhys | Elaine Cassidy | Peter Falk | Bianca Chiminello | Joanna Page | Robert Hardy | Tom Goodman-Hill | Tessa Peake-Jones | Brian Abbott | Jane Howie | Nicole Whippy | Inia Maxwell | Michael Bertenshaw | Tim Healy | Jasper Jacob | Paul Joseph | Laurence Kennedy | Nathaniel Lees | Terry Mortimer | Tamati Patuwai | David Quilter | Dominic Rowan | Malcolm Shields | Julia Walshaw | Mason West