ATLANTIS, THE LOST CONTINENT (1961) ** Opens with five minutes suggesting some knowledge of esoteric issues and concerns. Then a bipolar princess with too much eye shadow washes by on a raft and when they wake her up she starts bitching about their food and house, the way the dress, etc. Naturally the simple Greek fisherboy falls madly in love with her and helps her steal the family fishing boat in return for her promising to marry him under various conditions. Once the conditions are satisfied he gets to be a slave (not the kind he had in mind) in Atlantis. In other words it really coulda been a romantic contender if only Elvis had played Anthony Hall's part. Joyce Taylor is fine as the Atlantan princess, if largely because her name and hair evoke Elizabeth (tell me her and Elvis' kid would have married Michael Jackson). No matter, the priest decides that monotheism is the way, which he makes clear to the initiated while others follow the one-eyed astrologer. The princess' willingness to marry the fisherboy (even though he isn't Elvis) becomes comprehensible once you see the rest of the Atlanta male nubiles; particularly the ones not involved in Dr. Moreau type experiments.
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