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Saw Atlantis The Lost Continent movies when I was 8 years old (1961) when going to a movie was a tremendous treat. This film has stayed with me ever since. Not George Pal's greatest but the film instilled in me a wonder for the ancient world of Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Mayans, Aztecs & Incas. That peaked my interest to see films like Land of the Pharaohs, The Mummy (Karloff version), Cleopatra, Ben Hur, The Ten Commandments, Jason and the Argonauts, Clash of the Titans and Troy to name a few.

I will watch it whenever it is on TCM. The legend of Atlantis is still out there so why not celebrate it!

I just saw "Son Of Sinbad". According to Robert Osborne of TMC(Turner Classic Movies) there were a total of 127 women in this film. It is a girl watchers paradise but, arabian type women with zippers on their costumes and high heels in the dessert! It doesn't get any better than this. When Vincent Price the comic relief, as Omar Khayyam, sells the availability of men to the raiders he literally is on top of what you may call a soap box. This movie could well push the cause of Women's Lib back 50 years. No one but Howard Hughes could have produced a sexest, yet tongue in cheek, film like "Son Of Sinbad". I recommend it for anyone who wants to laugh out loud at the antics and Vincent Price's double takes. He is "Priceless". The film was originally made in 1953. Due to the risque costumes of the women Hughes held up the release in order to cash in on the publicity. Also, according to Mr. Osborne, the film was made in, that Edsel of film processes, 3D but release in regular format in 1955 after the hipe died along with those awful glasses! See it. I couldn't stop laughing.