Before Motel Hell, Kevin Connor made some wild movies in England, like From Beyond the Grave, At the Earth’s Core, The People That Time Forgot, Warlords of Atlantis and Arabian Adventure. Beyond this movie, he made another I really like, The House Where Evil Dwells.

Here, he’s working from a script by Elric creator and The Final Programme writer Michael Moorcock and James Cawthorn, based on The Land That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Bowen Tyler (Doug McClure) and Lisa Clayton (Susan Penhaligon) have barely survived their boat being torpedoed by Captain von Schoenvorts (John McEnery). At that point, Tyler and some of the other survivors take over the German U-boat, but battles between the crews cause them to be lost. They end up on Caprona, an island lost in time, a place where cavemen and dinosaurs exist. So does oil, and the idea of being rich allows the British and Germans to work as one.

That would be the idea, but Lt. Dietz (Anthony Ainley) starts a mutiny that ends with his whole crew being boiled alive in the ocean. As for Tyler and Lisa, well, they’re now part of Caprona.

The U-boat and ships are models, while the dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals are hand-held or on-string puppets, which sounds ridiculous but totally works.

Produced by Amicus, there was a sequel, The People That Time Forgot, and At the Earth’s Core, which teamed McClure with Peter Cushing and Caroline Munro. All three of these movies were distributed by American International Pictures over here in the U.S. There was even a Marvel comic adaptation, which appeared in the only issue of Marvel Movie Premiere.