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Plot

Director George Pal is noted as a special effects maestro, both in films for children that feature his "puppetoons" and in sci-fi spectacles like the War of the Worlds. So it is no surprise that this sci-fi yarn about the fabled sunken continent of Atlantis should excel in the special effects department. Otherwise, the story is a clichéd tale about Demetrios (Anthony Hall) a Greek fisherman who is tempted into going to Atlantis by Antillia (Joyce Taylor), a princess of that doomed land. Demetrios is soon trapped into slavery, a situation which leads him to hobnob with the oppressed masses and plan a strategy to get them out of there before the rumblings of imminent submersion send the whole kit and caboodle into the briny deep.
MPAA Rating:
Genre(s):
Fantasy
Run Time:
90min.
Distributor(s):
MGM
Director(s):
George Pal
Starring:
Anthony Hall , Joyce Taylor , Frank de Kova , John Dall , Jay Novello
Themes:
Daring Rescues,Lost Worlds,Heroic Mission
Tone:
Fanciful,Lavish,Rousing,Sweeping
Keywords:
bad-guy,disaster,fisherman,good-guy,invasion,lost-civilization,military,mutant,oppression,persecution,princess,seduction,slavery,social-injustice