Berry Kroeger's always fun to watch, strikes me as a sort of city slicker version of Robert Emhardt. Both were very good at what they did. John Dall looked like he might be on the verge of a movie comeback for a while there, then nothing happened.



Atlantis, the Lost Continent was a childhood favorite of mine. I went to see it twice, at two different neighborhood theaters, liked it just as much the second time around. This was the golden age of the Euro-muscleman flicks, which were everywhere, soon to fall out of fashion,--was James Bond maybe a factor?--but they were grand fun for a while there. I had no idea where Atlantis was filmed or by whom. It was fun the way Steve Reeves pictures were fun. A lot of older and on their way out stars appear in those European filmed mini-epics,. I remember Louis Jourdan, Rossano Brazzi, Rory Calhoun, Victor Mature, Stewart Granger and Orson Welles, among others, featured in some of them.

Once or twice I've tried to watch Atlantis on television but it just doesn't hold up, and it looks cheap today, or to my adult eyes anyway. I prefer not to knock those kinds of films, which were all the rage 1959-62. They were great afternoon entertainment for kids, took us to faraway places, and in color (not ubiquitous at the time), and in a non-Disney manner that made them genuinely exotic.

Last Edited By: telegonus Sep 4 10 12:28 AM. Edited 1 times.