The Lost Continent
AdventureFantasy
5.6/10
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|89 min
Release Date: 1968-06-19
Overview - An eclectic group of characters set sail on Captain Lansen’s leaky cargo ship in an attempt to escape their various troubles. When a violent storm strikes, the ship is swept into the Sargasso Sea and the passengers find themselves trapped on an island populated by man-eating seaweed, giant crabs and Spanish conquistadors who believe it’s still the 16th century.
Production Companies
Hammer Film ProductionsSeven Arts Productions
User Reviews
John Chard
7/10
Then we'll go on trying, and the day we stop trying we stop living! It is one of the major oddities out of Hammer Films, a nutty slice of fantasy adventure sci-fi, resplendent with rubbery effects work, an incoherent screenplay, auto-cue hammy acting and obligatory humongous cleavage! Plot, for what it is worth, finds a potentially explosive cargo ship and passengers, piloted by an uber seri...
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Wuchak
7/10
_**Weird "Ship of Fools" meets Jules Verne adventure**_ Hammer’s psychotronic “The Lost Continent” (1968) was based on Dennis Wheatley’s 1938 book “Uncharted Seas,” his second of three "Lost World" novels. The story concerns the mostly disagreeable passengers & crew of an old freighter traveling from a port in Liberia, Africa, to Caracas, Venezuela, with a volatile illegal cargo. The protagoni...
