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Re: ATLANTIS, THE LOST CONTINENT (1961)
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Among fans there are usually folks who share your enthusiasm for some of the less-than-classic films you watch. Then there are those films that you may love but everyone else will say … after a long pause … "It's
just
you."
Atlantis
,
The
Lost
Continent
is one of those films. I love it but Bill Warren's take on the film in
Keep
Watching
the
Skies
is pretty accurate. Now let's travel back in time to the early 1960s when the airwaves — and theaters — were full of Italian "Sword and Sandal" movies (Peplum they are called … the name derives from the Greek for tunic) and we kids watched a
ton
of 'em. If someone could find and post the
MAD
magazine Dave Berg (he did the comics "The Lighter Side of …") strip dealing with little kids talking about those films I'd really appreciate it.
Anyway we'd watch these flicks to see the hot Euro babes (
honestly
… we did … it was years later that, as an adult, I re-watched a couple and was genuinely shocked at how homoerotic they were) and hope to God there would be some fantasy element. You can imagine how we swooned when
Jason
and
the
Argonauts
hit the screens. So the George Pal film
Atlantis
,
The
Lost
Continent
was the best damned Peplum ever made
if
you were a kid of the right age and
if
you watched a ton O' Peplum. If not then it's like poor Bill Warren seeing the Irwin Allen
Lost
World
at 17 years of age and not at age 8 or 9; no enjoyment there for Bill. Me? Well … it just hit me right.
As an adult (and before the flicks were out on video to be examined in detail) I noticed that almost all the big scenes were taken from the MGM super production
Quo
Vadis
and I recognized most of the props from other MGM films … I watched
way too many
of the historical spectacle films. The
official
budget of $1.5 million is such a steaming crock … it is such a cheap film … but it officially was a big loss for MGM. It is not a good movie. The leads are horrible and Joyce Taylor was both an appalling character and devoid of any appeal. It was a shock to see her in the MGM film
Ring
of
Fire
and in
that
film she's smokin' hot … like a brunette Yvette Vickers … and the film is pretty darned good too. Great optical effects and miniatures.
Joyce in the Krell lab … er …
Atlantis
,
The
Lost
Continent
on the left and in
Ring
of
Fire
on the right.
The script is derivative as hell and even as a kid I hated that damned "if someone is a monotheist he's almost a Christian and therefore good" trope irritated me. There
was
an Australian website that trashes this film, with some wit, by pointing out that it has the silliest headgear ever worn by a cast in a film. Alas I've had to update since that collage is no longer available. Everyone
does
love the submarine.
Odd headgear
(nice
kippah
but w
hat
was
B
e
rry
Kroe
ger's Torah portion for h
is
bar mitzvah
?) and the
totally cool
submarine.
.
There is an episode of the
Hercules
TV show that is set in the George Pal version of Atlantis that I must seek ou
t. Apparently it's a season thr
ee
episode ("Atlantis").
opticalguy1954@yahoo.com (Spencer Gill)
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opticalguy
Jun 2 13 11:14 AM. Edited 6 times.
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