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Overview
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Director:
Writers:
Gerald Hargreaves (play)
Daniel Mainwaring (writer)
Release Date:
3 May 1961 (USA) more
Tagline:
SIGHTS NEVER BEFORE SEEN - Adventure never before experienced!
Plot:
A Greek Fisherman brings an Atlantean Princess back to her homeland which is the mythical city of Atlantis... more | add synopsis
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Fantasy or Allegory? more (20 total)
Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Sal Ponti | ... | Demetrios (as Anthony Hall) |
| Joyce Taylor | ... | Princess Antillia |
| John Dall | ... | Zaren |
 | William Smith | ... | Captain of the Guard (as Bill Smith) |
 | Edward Platt | ... | Azor the High Priest |
| Frank DeKova | ... | Sonoy the Astrologer |
| Berry Kroeger | ... | Surgeon |
| Edgar Stehli | ... | King Kronas |
| Wolfe Barzell | ... | Petros, Demetrios' Father |
| Jay Novello | ... | Xandros the Greek Slave |
| Paul Frees | ... | Narrator / multiple voices (voice) |
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Runtime:
90 min
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Color:
Color (Metrocolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Certification:
Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | USA:Approved (PCA #19705) | West Germany:12
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The initial cut of this film featured men in DaVinci-inspired flying rigs. This sequence was cut due to the poor quality of the special effects and negative responses from preview audiences. more
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: Obvious stunt double for Demetrios during the Ordeal of Fire and Water and the rope-hanging scene. more
Quotes:
Princess Antillia: Where is this miserable hovel, and why do I wear the garb of slaves? more
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Featured in 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964) more
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I thought this film would be a bit of a turkey but it turned out to be very entertaining. There are echoes of the same director's The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds in it. It combines sci-fi with Greek mythology very well. Although it is very much a fantasy film the pre-title sequence where the narrator talks about the things in the Old World and the New whose similarity which must be more than coincidental is quite thought provoking and you wonder what the real reason was for there being cave paintings of elephants in America and paintings of witches being similar on both sides of the Atlantic. It was made in the early sixties and it seems also to be making a statement about nuclear power with one crystal being used for lighting and heat and another being used for destruction. That scene seems to be a veiled warning about controlling our technology and not letting it run away. The rulers of Atlantis seem also to be a metaphor for the Nazis with their ideas of racial superiority and their desire to conquer the world together with their use of slave labour. A good film for all the family.