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Re: ATLANTIS, THE LOST CONTINENT (1961)
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opticalguy
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Jun 6 13 10:37 AM
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Tom Weaver was feeling generous when he made his list but I actually agree with him for the most part.
Doc
Savage
:
Man
of
Bronze
was a great disappointment. It's also backwards in that the best part is the opening 30 minutes and it goes to hell in the jungle portion. The Art Deco stuff in the beginning still looks cool. I suspect Pal had to do it for 10¢ like he did most of his films.
tom
thumb
looks quite nice in the theater (astounding matte paintings) and the huge amounts of Tom Howard traveling matte work and the Puppetoon sequences make it feel lavish when it wasn't. Also ace comics Terry Thomas and Peter Sellars (10 seconds before he lost a ton of weight and became a huge star) are a delight. It is, alas, too much of a pure kiddie film for and adult to sit through it more than once or twice.
The
Conquest
of
Space
is a
very
bad
film … such a train wreck … I should hate it but it has such a marvelous, undiluted, 1950s sci-fi vibe that I can watch it a lot. Bill Warren is rather critical of the effects work — mind you the flaws are many — but
damn it looks so cool
!
The
Power
is a mixed bag. I rather like it but it was on the shelf for a couple of years too long. Had it been released earlier it might have done some business.
As you can see in the post below the well-informed Tom Weaver sets me right.
The
Power
did
no
t
sit on the she
lf … it was, however
, a bit late in the game to fi
t into the whole 60s paranoia
cycle. I still like a lot of it.
Atlantis
:
The
Lost
Continent
is a bad film. I was — like most kids my age at that time — watching a lot of Hercules flicks (
peplum
— as the French critics called 'em ) and most of them were deadly dull to say the least. When Pal did
Atlantis
:
The
Lost
Continent
it was if a conventional
peplum
was suddenly shot full of fun! It was also obviously done for little money (third-string actors combined with left over set elements, standing back lot sets, old props, and costumes pulled from MGM's warehouse and a s**tload of shots from the super production
Quo
Vadis
?) except for the really cool submarine shots and the sinking of Atlantis done by A. Arnold Gillespie's crew where they spent a buck or two.
My son this comes from the movie
The
Prodigal
, those scenes from
Quo
Vadis
? but the last was done for this movie.
opticalguy1954@yahoo.com (Spencer Gill)
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opticalguy
Jun 7 13 10:03 AM. Edited 2 times.
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