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 fiancée.
Bob Hoskins
as Prof. Challenger
James Fox
as Prof. Summerlee
Tom Ward
as Lord Roxton
Matthew Rhys
as Edward Malone
Elaine Cassidy
as Agnes Cluny
Peter Falk
as Theo Kerr
Bianca Roe
as Selena
Nathaniel Lees
as Indian chief
Joanna Page
as Gladys
Robert Hardy
as Prof. Illingworth
Tom Goodman-Hill
as Arthur Hare
Tessa Peake-Jones
as Mrs. Hilda Summerlee
