Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend

1985
PG
1h 35m

IMDb RATING

5.1/10

3.6K

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A paleontologist and her husband discover a mother and baby brontosaurus in Africa, and try to protect them from a group of hunters intent on capturing the dinosaurs.

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Paleontologist Susan Matthews and her husband George Loomis discover a mother and baby brontosaurus in Africa and try to protect them from Dr. Eric Kiviat, the leader of a group of hunters i... Read allPaleontologist Susan Matthews and her husband George Loomis discover a mother and baby brontosaurus in Africa and try to protect them from Dr. Eric Kiviat, the leader of a group of hunters intent on capturing the dinosaurs.Paleontologist Susan Matthews and her husband George Loomis discover a mother and baby brontosaurus in Africa and try to protect them from Dr. Eric Kiviat, the leader of a group of hunters intent on capturing the dinosaurs.

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IMDb RATING

5.1/10

3.6K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 nomination

Trivia
The villain, Dr. Eric Kiviat, is loosely based on Dr. Roy Mackal (University of Chicago)-- biologist, engineer, teacher and biochemist--and his voyages to Africa in search of the legendary living dinosaurs of the Congo, Mokele-Mbembe. Mackal's 1980 Congo trip with fellow cryptozoologist James Powell was featured in Dragons, Dinosaurs and Giant Snakes (1980).

Goofs
Susan occasionally smokes on the job. A good archaeologist/anthropologist/naturalist would never do this, as the cigarette ash would contaminate the pristine environment.

Quotes
[Last lines]
Susan Matthews-Loomis: Just another legend?
George Loomis: If we let it be.

Crazy credits
Despite having a logo for Touchstone Pictures at the end, the film's copyright credits Walt Disney Productions.

Connections
Featured in At the Movies: The Aviator/Mask/Sylvester (1985)

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Almost as bad as "Jurassic Park"

This early Touchstone release from 1985 would probably serve as minor script source material for the later unbelievably bad film "Jurassic Park." This mostly obscure film is only mildly better. Still, it's not something that I would recommend and even though Touchstone is a subsidiary of Walt Disney Pictures, don't think that this is a perfectly appropriate family oriented film (despite its childish plot) as there are some scenes of violence and animal peril.