The Lost World is a 1992 film, based on the book of the same title by Arthur Conan Doyle.
It is approximately 1912. Junior reporter Edward Malone (Eric McCormack) bungles into the office of Gazette editor McArdle looking for an adventurous assignment (but no mention of Gladys Hungerford) and is sent to interview Professor Challenger (John Rhys-Davies), whose housekeeper warns Malone about her employer. Malone poses as an Italian scientist, but Challenger sees through it, reveals him to be a Canadian journalist, and wrestles him down a flight of stairs where a policeman awaits. When Malone decides not to press charges, he wins Challenger's respect, and the professor shows him back into his study.
Challenger then shows Malone the sketchbook of explorer Maple White, showing pictures of a cliff —"That, my young friend, is the Lost World"—in Central Africa, and of a creature that looks like a pterodactyl but which Challenger calls a "beast." Challenger recounts his visit to the dying Maple White, including his own near-fatal stabbing by the treacherous Pedro which kept him from any more than a glimpse of the "lost world," and invokes mocked prophets—"Galileo, Darwin, Challenger!"—since
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