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Atlantis, the Lost Continent
(1961), produced and directed by George Pal, was a science fiction film about the destruction of Atlantis during the time of Ancient Greece. A Greek fisherman named Demetrios (Anthony Hall) and his father rescue Princess Antillia (Joyce Taylor) from a shipwreck without knowing that in fact she is from the technologically advanced civilisation of Atlantis. The film's prologue describing the legend of Atlantis features Pal's stop motion special effects. John Dall ("Marcus Glabrus," Spartacus) appears as the sinister first minister Zaren, and Edward Platt (Chief of CONTROL on Get Smart) as the high priest Azor.

The film was reviewed poorly by film critic Leonard Maltin, who wrote in his 2002 Movie & Video Guide that it was "Pal's worst film," that it had "poor effects" and that it was "Occasionally funny - but not on purpose."

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