The Lost Continent (1968 film)
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| Directed by | Michael Carreras |
| Produced by | Michael Carreras |
| Written by | Michael Nash aka Michael Carreras |
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Uncharted Seas by Dennis Wheatley |
| Starring |
Eric Porter Hildegard Knef Suzanna Leigh Tony Beckley |
| Music by | Soundtrack Gerard Schürmann Songs The Peddlers |
| Cinematography | Paul Beeson |
| Edited by | James Needs |
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Warner-Pathé (UK) 20th Century Fox (US) |
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91 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | Over £500,000 |
The Lost Continent is a 1968 adventure film made by Hammer Films and Seven Arts featuring Eric Porter, Hildegard Knef, Suzanna Leigh, Tony Beckley, and James Cossins. The film was produced, directed and written by Michael Carreras based on Dennis Wheatley's novel Uncharted Seas (1938).
The film sees the crew and passengers of the dilapidated tramp steamer Corita heading from Freetown to Caracas. While the passengers all have their own reasons for getting out of Africa, the captain of the ship is also eager to leave, as he is smuggling a dangerous explosive cargo. Whilst en route to South America the ship is holed and eventually what's left of the crew and passengers find themselves marooned in a mist-enshrouded Sargasso Sea surrounded by killer seaweed, murderous crustaceans and previously marooned descendants of Spanish Conquistadores and pirates.
The film begins with a ship slowly moving through mist and a pan shot down the vessel reveals an odd collection of people – Spanish conquistadores, priests, pirates, seamen and finally to the captain of ship who is reading the burial rites over a coffin. The coffin is subsequently ditched overboard and the captain asks "What happened to us? How did we all get here...?" The film then cuts back in time to previous events.
On the bridge of the tramp steamer Corita, Captain Lansen (Eric Porter) orders his crew to avoid the repeated requests of a customs launch from the port of Freetown to stop for inspection. The captain orders the ship full steam ahead and to avoid the usual shipping lanes on its way to Caracas.
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