Movie Type: Fantasy Adventure, Mythological Fantasy
Themes: Daring Rescues, Heroic Mission, Lost Worlds
Main Cast: Anthony Hall, Joyce Taylor, Frank de Kova, John Dall, Jay Novello
Release Year: 1961
Country: US
Run Time: 90 minutes
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. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
George W. Davis - Art Director, William Ferrari - Art Director, Ridgeway Callow - First Assistant Director, George Pal - Director, Ben Lewis - Editor, Russell Garcia - Composer (Music Score), William J. Tuttle - Makeup, Harold E. Wellman - Cinematographer, George Pal - Producer, Henry W. Grace - Set Designer, Arnold A. Gillespie - Special Effects, Lee Le Blanc - Special Effects, Robert R. Hoag - Special Effects, Daniel Mainwaring - Screenwriter, Gerald Hargreaves - Play Author
