Trailer for the Movie: Atlantis, the Lost Continent (1961)

[Calburtonreid]

good film , it bugged me about the quo vadis scenes though , dosen't make the film bad , just feels like a lack of effort , it didnt really need to show large crowds

[itchykami]

this just made me remember how unpleasant sea water really is.

[Stargate674]

lol, I thought stargate atlantis :p

[Mality]

They used to show this on Frazier Thomas' "Family Classics" on Sundays in Chicago all the time. Wow, what memories.

[HistoryLover1550]

This looks like a good movie, I'll have to watch this sometime!

[MontagTheMagician]

Great trailer but please remove the TCM bumper at the beginning. I hate that thing worse than the holocaust.

[oprep3]

I have a letter from George Pal turning down my offer to buy both the Time Machine

and the Atlantis submarine in 1961. Exactly 10 years later

I bid on the Time Machine the Atlantis submarine model and the C-57-D saucer from Forbidden planet at the MGM auction in 1971. I lost of course but it was

great actually having the chance to be there.

[5355vbxjbj76rvn]

It could have been much better in many ways - but it's such hokum it's brilliant anyway :)

[astokas2005]

face watch stargate atlantis now that is sciencefiction

[gragrn]

So that's where the Chief got the cone of silence!

[JubalCalif]

Heavens to Murgatroid! Superb trailer! Wonderful narration by the immortal Paul Frees! Strictly from coolsville, daddy-o! Sad that this was the last movie of the late great John Dall, who played the chief villian in this Italian-made opus. Mr Dall, who I think was a very underated & underused performer, is best known for 3 classic films: "The Corn is Green" (for which he got an Oscar nomination), Alfred Hitchock's "Rope" and the film noir classic "Gun Crazy". THANKS for posting this! :)

[scotpens]

@JubalCalif This picture wasn't made in Italy. It was a Hollywood product all the way, filmed mostly on the Culver City MGM lot (you can spot several props left over from "Forbidden Planet") with some location shooting on Santa Catalina Island. It also made extensive use of stock footage from MGM's 1951 epic "Quo Vadis."

[JubalCalif]

@scotpens

Thanks for your informative & intriguing post, scotpens! I greatly appreciate that background info about this low budget but fascinatin' flick! :)

[tiagom135]

stupid

[msjewel1954]

This movie was great, I saw it as a child....it stuck in my brain. At the time, it scared me.... as an adult it make me think, made me curious about the earths history, Troy, greek methology, the Roman empire, egyptian history. It made me hungry for knowledge of the past!! Wonderful movie!!

[ctdsnark]

I liked the idea of this movie,seeing Atlantis in its final days,largely because it developed weaponry and science that Man couldn't yet handle.

I'm hesitant to say I'd like to see a remake,considering the recent gloomy-gus remake of "Clash Of The Titans".

[funkanova365247]

Memories of Family Classics on WGN as a kid.

[WatchRyder]

We aren't that far off become like those on that Island...

[bronkoghma]

the best book i read dealing with atlantis was written by otto muck

[MChelada]

Saw this on TCM recently. BAD! If Atlantis was like this, it deserved to go under the sea.

[dakotagerman1]

This is as close to what Atlantis was like as an movie has portrayed (even by comparison to the Disney animated motion picture).

You say "bad"? This is because of reliving. you (like all of us) are a reincarnation of Atlanteans.

Atlantis remains in the psychic memory of all of us. We all had a part in what happened which is why we have many of the neuroses and psychoses we suffer from today.

We must rid ourselves of the bad karma and negative energy through Unarius.

[dakotagerman1]

@MChelada

Indeed THIS! was Atlantis (NOT! the Disney claptrap). THIS! was Lemuria before it.

Many of the souls incarnated on Earth today have lived through the Lemurian and Atlantean experiences.

Vestiges of Lemuria and Atlantis are seen in the Minoan civilization ruins, as also in the Egyptian and Central & South American ruins.

Much of ancient Grecian civilization was based on Atlantean civilization.

[ongwehonweh]

People half man, half animal. Remembering my mother telling me the truth about it (although limited) when she was in her 20's, still with open mind. When heard of Yakub, I knew the story to be true cause my Mother told me when I was child.

[spacart1]

Yes, I understand. When I first saw this movie as a kid, I believed it because it was right there in front of me on the screen; therefore, it must have been true.

[fairnorth]

This film was very good. So was another film made during that time called " Journey Beneath The Desert" , A.K.A. "Queen Of Atlantis ". Both films were outstanding !

[oprep3]

Just search for Atlantis the Lost Continent/The Power. It is a limited edition but they usually have a few for sale. It includes a booklet with details about the film. They have similar CD for

The Egyptian one of my other favorites.

[oprep3]

I got the soundtrack CD on Amazon. It also has the soundtrack from The Power another underrated George Pal film that is among my all time favorites. Unfortunately The Power was released just weeks before 2001 A Space Odyssey but I found it a great archtypal 60s film and much more entertaining than 2001 because it did not require

aliens but instead a super human trying to control the universe.

[denberg2]

What's the exact title of the cd? Thanks.

[oprep3]

I had an opportunity to thank George Pal in person for both the Time Machine and Atlantis in his office at Warner Bros. in 1973 when I did an animation test shot for Doc Savage.

Of course I adore Joyce Taylor but Christie, the girl who kissed me, actually looked a lot more like Tuesday Weld

who at the time was playing Thalia Meninger on Dobie Gillis.

No wonder I can never forget it.

[denberg2]

Where can I get the theme by Russ Garcia?

[damoncarmona]

I've heard about this film all of my life, but this is the first I've ever seen of it. or the late Sal Ponti who was my biological father. I am fascinated to say the least! Seems we're having a family reunion of sorts here on YouTube!

[oprep3]

I saw Atlantis TLC in June 1961 when I was 12 years old. It was the first time I took an actual girl on date. She kissed me during

the love scene on the boat.

As a result I consider Russ Garcia's Atlantis love theme

to be the greatest piece of screen music ever written.

Thankfully I recently obtained the soundtrack music

for Atlantis the Lost Continent and every time I listen to it I am 12 years old again and I am getting that kiss forever.

[denberg2]

That must be the most romantic comment ever posted on YouTube, which is fitting, since the boat scene is the most romantic scene I have ever seen in a film! Bravo!

[Ear4Beauty]

@oprep3 You have it right about Garcia's muic. His lovely theme to The Time Machine (1960) is one of my favorite melodies. I was about 10. Garcia's theme for Time Machine reminds me of Miklos Roza's beautiful theme to Spellbound.

[CliffordVII]

@oprep3 COOL STORY BRO

[Meta1Head91]

@CliffordVII If you had a girl, you might be able to relate.

[theshadow1932]

@oprep3 Great story, man!

[spacepatrolman]

@oprep3 Did you throw mud on her later for betraying you

[dianakittylady]

Atlantis the lost Continent,I warmly remember as a preteen watching this amazeing movie on sunday afternoon tv At sea greek fisherman rescues this princess a who persuades him to take her in his boat home, They are picked up by a submarine! and taken to Atlantis there he iis enslaved has to fight a gladiator learn's of and must stop an Atlantian plan to use a crystal laser, death ray aginst the fishermans homeland What became of this great movie, MGM why no dvd better blu-ray?

[mmbmrock]

anybody seen my car keys?

[argotechnica]

Oh no! Not "THE WEIRD CULT OF SCIENCE-WORSHIP!"

[landlord248]

And the Terrible house of Fear!!we are soo fucked

[superbruce]

..I think this moveie needs to be remade- could you imagine what they could do w/ it today w/ the proper treatment?

[AstringOfPoloponies]

It's good to see Sal Ponti (Demetriuos), an old friend from my L.A. days. Cool film.

[scotpens]

Well, ain't that a kick in the head! I never knew that "Anthony Hall" was the stage name of Sal Ponti, who was a songwriter and playwright as well as an actor. Sadly, he died of lung cancer in 1988 at the age of 53.

[cynthiadilammermoor]

How do you know Sal? I am his widow Cynthia

[AstringOfPoloponies]

Wow - I think I met you. Do you have blond hair ? Does Sal's script "Dago" ring a bell ?

Back in the 80s- I met Sal somehow , can't remember. He had a sweet dog named Carmen. He was going with a really nice younger woman - whom most likely was you.

Sal had us all over to his home and we read Dago and than he had backers auditions in Hollywood. (I think it was in a reastaraunt on Hollywood Blvd.).I am thinking that this all happened in 1985.

[cynthiadilammermoor]

Yes that was me ..We married in 1986 and of ,as you know he passed away shortly thereafter in early 1988..i still have "Dago" and of course all his other work I sang in that backers audition..I am glad we now have the internet and I can find people who remember him and his work..he was a great artist it was mu privelege to be his wife

[waverly2468]

Wonderful trailer. I remember seeing it for the first time 45 years ago on TV! Joyce Taylor is beautiful, Russell Garcia's music is great, and then there is narration from the great Paul Frees (who is also the narrator in the Disneyland Haunted House ride). That crystal laser weapon is fantastic. Too bad there still has been no DVD release.

[RonaldVaughan]

NO DVD release? LOL!!

Yep,Paul Frees!

Don't forget the late Edward C. Platt as

"Azor"--the good guy...later the "Chief"

on "Get Smart"...

Solar-power crystal weapon...the predecessor

to our modern laser...

THIS MOVIE IS A LESSON FOR ALL MANKING.

R.I.P. George Pal...Dutch filmmaker supreme...

[waverly2468]

That crystal laser weapon reappears as a prop in the Man from U.N.C.L.E. episode "The Concrete Overcoat Affair". John Dall gives a wonderfully campy performance as Zarin, the warlord. He was in the Hitchcock film "Rope" (1948). He died in 1971, just 10 years after this film was made. He was 52.

[scotpens]

George Pal and his wife were living in Holland when they fled Nazi-occupied Europe, and his anti-Nazi Puppetoon "Tulips Shall Grow" was inspired by his firsthand experience of the German takeover of that country. But Pal was definitely Hungarian.

[RonaldVaughan]

Thanks for letting me in on that fact.

[rosecitychimes]

I can also remember seeing the movie for the first time on TV...I was about 7 years old it was about 1962. I happened to catch the movie on TNT back in 1994 and I recorded it on a VHS tape and I edited the commercials out of it.