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The Lost World

(1925)

A loony professor is rounding up people to go with him on a dinosaur hunt. He says no reporters though, and when one guy who asks to come along admits he's a reporter the professor attacks him! Later the reporter stops by the prof's house to try to smooth things over, but the professor just attacks him again! They finally get it all straightened out though, the reporter joins the team, and they're off. Now, they bring some real weirdoes on this trip (including a guy wearing blackface Ted Danson style), but the thing that freaked me out the most was their pet monkey:

Seriously, he looks like he's about to get the beating of his life, and knows it. What have they been doing to this little fucker? Whatever it is, he gets his revenge later- I'm pretty sure he's at least partly responsible when their log bridge falls and traps them on the mountain where all the dinosaurs live. Why they can't just make another log bridge is a mystery, but it probably has something to do with the fact that they're complete idiots. They do manage to escape eventually, and a brontosaurus happens to fall off the mountain too (this part's hilarious), so they're able to catch it and take it to London. Taking dinosaurs out on the town is never a good idea though, and needless to say it escapes and starts wrecking everything. It would've been nice if the flapper chick who was tagging along the whole time took off her top or something, and there's no gore, but there's enough dinosaurs and destruction that it still ends up being an okay flick.