The Savage (US-1926: dir. Fred Newmeyer)
According to Stephen Jones in The Illustrated Dinosaur Movie Guide, this film features a young reporter named Danny Terry (played by Ben Lyon), who accompanies a scientific expedition to the Mariposa Islands, just as Edward Malone follows Professor Challenge on an expedition to find The Lost World (1925). In The Savage, Professor Atwater (played by Tom Maquire) has a theory about evolution to prove and to do so he fakes a missing link (the “savage” of the title). However, a friendly brontosaurus follows Danny back to New York — just as a brontosaurus ends up in London in The Lost World. The Savage is a comedy and, I assume, a take-off of the earlier film.
The girl in the first picture below (which comes from clubdesmonstres.com) is, presumably, the Professor’s daughter, Ysabel, played by May McAvoy.
This film looks fantastic!! The story sounds like a lot of fun too.From these to pics,they seem to have achieved some pretty stunning visuals for the time that it was released in.I wonder what the status is on it.Is it lost like so many other classics or will it be made available for us all to enjoy on dvd soon??
Well, none of my sources mentions that it is lost, so it may very well be out there somewhere. Thanks to the incentives DVD technology offers to archivists to go to the trouble of restoring old films, we may be able to see it one day.