Some blokes arrive in the sunken land of Atlantis, partly by accident, partly by design, and encounter despots and monsters. Shenanigans ensue.
Coming out of the spasm of activity whereby Doug McClure was the action-man protagonist in a number of similar British fantasy movies, this is not vastly different to the others. An adequate plot serves as a satisfactory row of hooks on which to hang a series of action sequences involving "special effects" of a type which was all we had at the time. And like the other films, the monsters are men in monster costumes, filmed in slow motion on miniature sets, which was a bit lame even then. There is one bit where a monster eats someone, and it is quite clear the considerable effort everyone has to go to in order to get out of the way and almost help the fellow into the monster's jaws. Nitrogen narcosis doesn't exist in journeying to and from this undersea realm, and octopuses have menacing roars. That sort of thing.
For all that, it is good natured and barrels along amiably enough. And Cyd Charisse, aged 57, shows that she still has a pretty good pair of pins.
Coming out of the spasm of activity whereby Doug McClure was the action-man protagonist in a number of similar British fantasy movies, this is not vastly different to the others. An adequate plot serves as a satisfactory row of hooks on which to hang a series of action sequences involving "special effects" of a type which was all we had at the time. And like the other films, the monsters are men in monster costumes, filmed in slow motion on miniature sets, which was a bit lame even then. There is one bit where a monster eats someone, and it is quite clear the considerable effort everyone has to go to in order to get out of the way and almost help the fellow into the monster's jaws. Nitrogen narcosis doesn't exist in journeying to and from this undersea realm, and octopuses have menacing roars. That sort of thing.
For all that, it is good natured and barrels along amiably enough. And Cyd Charisse, aged 57, shows that she still has a pretty good pair of pins.