Atlantis The Lost Continent (1949)

• Directors
  • Gregg G. Tallas
  • John Brahm(uncredited)
  • Arthur Ripley(uncredited)
• Writers
  • Pierre Benoît(novel "L'Atlantide")
  • Thomas Job(additional dialogue)
  • Robert Lax(screenplay)
• Stars
  • Maria Montez
  • Jean-Pierre Aumont
  • Dennis O'Keefe

  The third movie version of Pierre Benoit's fantasy novel L'Atlantide, first film in 1921. Jean-Pierre Aumont and Dennis O'Keefe star as Foreign Legionnaires Andre and Jean, who while on a routine mission in the African desert stumble upon the sunken city of Atlantis. Once they've arrived in the subterranean metropolis, they are forbidden to leave by sultry Queen Antinea (Maria Montez). For her own perverse amusement, Antinea romances both Andre and Jean, then sits back and watches the two duke it out over her affections. One of the men survives to tell the tale-if he can find anyone to believe him, that is. To their credit, Henry Daniell and Morris Carnovsky play their supporting roles with utterly straight faces. Of the many deliriously awful Maria Montez vehicles of the 1940s,