Warlords of Atlantis (1978)

User Rating:

5.2/10   

Director:

Kevin Connor

Writer:

Brian Hayles (screenplay)

Release Date:

May 1978 (USA)

Genre:

Fantasy | Adventure | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

From the depth of space they came to vanish beneath the sea...

Plot:

Searching for the lost world of Atlantis, Prof. Aitken, his son Charles and Greg Collinson are betrayed by the crew of their expedition's ship...

Plot Keywords:

Atlantis | Diving Bell | Sea Monster | Betrayal | Reference To Plato

Cast

Doug McClure	...	Greg Collinson
Peter Gilmore	...	Charles Aitken
Shane Rimmer	...	Captain Daniels
Lea Brodie	...	Delphine
Michael Gothard	...	Atmir
Hal Galili	...	Grogan
John Ratzenberger	...	Fenn
Derry Power	...	Jacko
Donald Bisset	...	Professor Aitken
Ashley Knight	...	Sandy
Robert Brown	...	Briggs
Cyd Charisse	...	Atsil
Daniel Massey	...	Atraxon

Also Known As:

Seven Cities of Atlantis (USA) (working title)
Warlords of the Deep (USA)

Runtime:

96 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Finland:K-12 (cut) | Finland:K-16 (uncut) | Iceland:L | Australia:PG | UK:A (original rating) | UK:PG (re-rating) (1987) | USA:PG

Filming Locations:

Gozo Island, Malta

Company:

EMI Films

Trivia:

Daniel Massey was a late casting choice replacing an actor who dropped out.

Quotes:

[the three mutineers awake on the lagoon shore.]
Jacko: Holy Saint Hilda! Where are we?
Fenn: Grogan, what's happened to us? Where's the Texas Rose and the others?
Grogan: Take it easy, kid. We're alive. And that's good enough for now.
[Jacko spots Greg and the others swimming towards them.]
Jacko: And we're not the only ones. Hey! Skipper!
Grogan: Don't get too carried away, Jacko! Daniels might have some idea of what we were up to!
Jacko: Oh.

A film I liked as a kid

"Harrihausen stop-motion animation in all its choppy glory". Where? I didn't see any, it all looked like sock puppets, guys in rubber suits and wood and canvass models to me, standard Amicus/Rice-Boroughs effects. If they had have used stop-motion the effects would have been a lot better, take the Empire Strikes Back made three years later or the Golden Voyage of Sinbad made four years earlier. Please, please don't say the effects were good for the Seventies, because in all fairness King Kong which was made 45 years earlier has better effects and there currently appears to be a trend to excuse anything made before the advent of CGI as "Good effects for their day". As if Spielberg would have used guys in suits a la Godzilla to make Jurassic Park if CGI hadn't have been around in 1992! It's a fun film, however, and very enjoyable, I liked it as a kid and like all the Amicus/Rice-Boroughs films I try to see them when they're on.