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thethirdman8 · 2 years

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"She waited until it was late - then she walked in - out of the moonlight - smiling.."

Robert Mitchum's narration from Out of the Past, 1947

#out of the past #1947 #daniel mainwaring #screen writer #film noir

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theoakleafpancake · 4 months

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The Ties of Fate

[Image ID: A drawing of two emblems, one a leopard’s eye and the other a snake’s eye. The leopard is red and the snake is yellow, and both of them have a sort of lightning strike reaching towards each other. /End ID]

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The bells were ringing again. It was a sound they all dreaded, a sound that dampened the usual cheer of the dawn of a new day.

It was the sound of war.

Will Barret lowered the bow—the bow he’d made from a tree branch—and turned to watch as the single rider made his way along the road. A coil of unease slithered inside him, and without a second thought, he leaped through the little woods, towards the farmhouse in the field.

Daniel was already outside, carrying the shovel back into the barn. “Dad!” Will shouted. His father looked up and waved a hand, stopping as he waited.

“Is everything alright?”

He slowed down, panting. “Rider,” he said, letting out a slow breath. “There’s a rider coming.”

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This is my AU submission for the Ranger assessment! (More info under the cut)

It’s kinda of a reversal AU, but also not really because about half of it remains the same. It’s also still very rough so I haven’t figured out all the logistics yet.

Morgarath was never defeated. In fact, the original war continued on much longer, with each group taking heavy losses. So much so that it came to a point where a tense truce was offered.

Unfortunately, Morgarath’s advances reached from Gorlan to a shaky line across Araluen. Thus Araluen was split into Duncan’s land and Morgarath’s land (now known as Tenebris).

The erasure of the Ranger Corps did happen. And Crowley did end up uniting the Originals to help Duncan. Unlike in the main timeline, he did it alone.

Halt O’Carrick, once heir to the throne of Dun Kilty, faced the same assassination attempts from his brother Ferris. It was around the third attempt that their father grew extremely ill.

Instead of allowing Ferris to take the throne, Halt was determined to keep his brother’s corruption from spreading. So he stayed. Caitlyn was the first to know. Halt had his own ensemble that was loyal to him, and managed to keep Ferris compliant for the time being. And so when the King died, Halt took the throne.

In this AU, he still met Pritchard and trained with him. His main weapon is still a bow and arrow. He has his own guards practice the weapon as well. For a while, everything went relatively smoothly.

There was no Ranger to save, and Daniel survived. The other two who ransacked his home in the original story (I can’t remember their names) still tried to pull their stunt but were unsuccessful. His wife lived and so did Will. For fifteen years, all was still.

(For reference, I gave them the last name of Barret. Vira is his wife and Will’s mother)

When the war commences once more, Will is forced back into it as well as his father. Will proves to be not so competent in most weaponry and finds himself with the archers.

The rest of the Wards are still in their respective places. As Morgarath plans, Battleschool students, Diplomats, and Scribes are all doing their own part.

Horace is a natural when it comes to swordsmanship, but not when it comes to fitting in. His mother lives alone, and he worries about her every day. Alda, Bryn, and Jerome make his life a living hell every day and he almost wishes he never joined.

Alyss strives to be everything Lady Pauline is. Her family is still gone, and so she did grow up in the Ward with George and a few others. Coincidentally, a popular baker in town frequents Castle Redmont to help with any major events. Her daughter, Jenny, often tags along and spends time with Alyss and George.

Never given the opportunity to choose another path, Gilan is a respected knight in Caraway. He still looks to the Rangers with longing and envy, but he knows it’s far too late to join. And besides, this is what everyone expected of him, right? As the Battlemaster’s son, it’s only natural.

At the start of the AU, Cassandra is placed in Celtica. Which geographically speaking is still weird because I have no idea how she would have made it even with a truce, but I’ll figure it out. The war did start again some time after she had arrived, so there’s that. Madelydd and her get into all sorts of antics and enjoy spending time with one another.

As the war starts, Crowley and Duncan are noticeably concerned about the growing size of Morgarath’s army. They will need more support if they have any hope of winning, but international relationships are not so well off. Fortunately, though small, an army from Hibernia decides to cut in on the decision of one of the six Kings - Halt O’Carrick

And of course, Ferris sees this as the perfect moment to strike. His brother leaves Caitlyn and Ferris in charge, not without sparing a few of his men to keep an eye on his brother. Unfortunately, Ferris has his own loyal followers. If the King were to leave to fight a war and never return, no one would bat an eye, after all.

No one except Caitlyn.

Anyways, that’s all I have for now! Everything will tie together eventually, I just have to figure out how to get there, lol.

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sarascamander · 2 years

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Maddie: I know we've always had this unspoken rivalry —

Daniel: It's not rivalry, you just hate me. And its not unspoken, you talk about it all the time.

#They love each other your honour #ranger's apprentice #alyss mainwaring #will treaty #daniel treaty #madelyn altman

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blueiskewl · 2 years

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), poster, US

Unframed: 36 x 14 in. (91 x 36 cm). Framed: 41 3/4 x 20 in. (106 x 50.7 cm).

This size poster was designed for use in cabinets inside the cinemas. They were produced on thicker paper stock compared with the regular posters, and few were printed. Owing to their cost, they stopped being produced in the 1980s. The artwork on this poster is the same as that used on the larger main release poster. However, it works much better in this narrow format.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a 1956 American science fiction horror film produced by Walter Wanger, directed by Don Siegel, and starring Kevin McCarthy and Dana Wynter. The black-and-white film was shot in Superscope and in the film noir style. Daniel Mainwaring adapted the screenplay from Jack Finney's 1954 science fiction novel The Body Snatchers. The film was released by Allied Artists Pictures as a double feature with the British science fiction film The Atomic Man (and in some markets with Indestructible Man).

#Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956 #movie poster #movie memorabilia #1956 science fiction horror film #don siegel #kevin mccarthy #dana wynter #1950s #1950s style #1950s hollywood #1950s movies

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byneddiedingo · 2 years

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The Hitch-Hiker (Ida Lupino, 1953) Cast: Edmond O'Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman, José Torvay, Sam Hayes, Wendell Niles, Jean Del Val, Clark Howat, Natividad Vacío. Screenplay: Collier Young, Ida Lupino, Robert L. Joseph, Daniel Mainwaring. Cinematography: Nicholas Musuraca. Art direction: Albert S. D'Agostino, Walter E. Keller. Film editing: Douglas Stewart. Music: Leith Stevens. The thing I admire most about The Hitch-Hiker is its economy. It doesn't waste time giving us, for example, the backstory of Roy Collins and Gilbert Bowen, the two guys played by Edmond O'Brien and Frank Lovejoy. Lesser films would have given us scenes in which they bid farewell to their wives and children, trying to establish them as good guys in the hands of a psychopath -- we catch on to that fast enough without sentimental ties back home. Ida Lupino doesn't need to mess around with unnecessary sympathy for them. In fact, we're aware that they're not entirely paragons of virtue: They bicker, for example, about where they're going to spend their little time away from their wives, and there's a suggestion that they're glad to get away from home and family -- it looks like they want a little more action than just fishing. Later, after they've been trapped by Emmett Myers (a wonderfully scary performance by William Talman that makes me regret he got forever stuck as Hamilton Burger, the loser D.A. on the Perry Mason TV series), they quarrel about how they might escape from his clutches -- at one point Bowen even slugs Collins, who is on the verge of hysterics. There are some flaws: It's never really clear why Myers doesn't just shoot at least one of them -- he doesn't really need both to complete his journey to Santa Rosalía. And I do think the film falls a little flat at the end when Myers is so easily captured, but not enough to mar the gritty whole of the movie. Lupino and cinematographer Nicholas Musuraca use the desert landscape to great effect: It provides both isolation and exposure. The Hitch-Hiker deserves its reputation well beyond its historical distinction as a film noir with an all-male cast directed by a (gasp!) woman.

#The Hitch-Hiker #Ida Lupino #Edmond O'Brien #Frank Lovejoy #William Talman

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quasar1967 · 2 years

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Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1956)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a 1956 American science fiction horror film produced by Walter Wanger, directed by Don Siegel, and starring Kevin McCarthy and Dana Wynter. The black-and-white film was shot in Superscope and in the film noir style. Daniel Mainwaring adapted the screenplay from Jack Finney's 1954 science fiction novel The Body Snatchers. The film was released by Allied Artists Pictures as a double feature with the British science fiction film The Atomic Man (and in some markets with Indestructible Man).

The film's storyline concerns an extraterrestrial invasion that begins in the fictional California town of Santa Mira. Alien plant spores have fallen from space and grown into large seed pods, each one capable of producing a visually identical copy of a human. As each pod reaches full development, it assimilates the physical traits, memories, and personalities of each sleeping person placed near it until only the replacement is left; these duplicates, however, are devoid of all human emotion. Little by little, a local doctor uncovers this "quiet" invasion and attempts to stop it.

The slang expression "pod people" that arose in late 20th-century U.S. culture refers to the emotionless duplicates seen in the film. Invasion of the Body Snatchers was selected in 1994 for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."

#invasion of the body snatchers

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roskirambles · 7 months

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Special Feature: The Hitch-hiker (1953)

Yep, this is not quite a horror film. But given the week’s subject, I thought discussing the first American noir film directed by a woman would be worthwhile. After all, suspense is an adjacent genre to horror as the ability to keep things tense can make or break a film there. So, what does the movie have to offer?

Directed by Ida Lupino, it’s based on a story by Daniel Mainwaring (who goes uncredited for being blacklisted at the time) which was then adapted by Robert L. Joseph.… all inspired by the real murder spree of Billy Cook, albeit with names and details changed of course. Roy Collins and Gilbert Bowen are going on a fishing trip to Mexicali, and they decide to give a hitchiker they come across a ride. This decision unfortunately proves to be the worst mistake of their lives as they’re taken hostage at gunpoint by someone who turns out to be the wanted criminal known Emmet Myers. And now, their captor is demanding them to drive into the desert as both the American and Mexican police are on their tail.

If there’s something Lupino absolutely NAILS to a T here, that’s got to the pacing. By minute 8 has the set up clear as day and the tension through the roof, so the rest of the movie can build upn the goose chase by the police and the battle of resolve between two decent men against someone who knows no remorse in his hardened psychopathy, openly reveling in humiliating others to assert his misplaced sense of superiority.

It really doesn't get more simple than two people being held at gunpoint by a third one, but it doesn't need to. There's no pointless subplots, fluff or cheap attempts to garner the audience's sympathy with melodrama. It just gets to the point with no fat and that's what makes it a classic.

#halloween #noir movies #the hitchiker #ida lupino #roskirambles

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pagzsix · 1 year

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Imax China has appointed former CAA agent Daniel Mainwaring at its new CEO. He succeeds interim CEO Chen Jiande, who will return to his full-time position as vice chairman of Imax China. Extra to observe.

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bspolink1348 · 1 year

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Les nouveautés de la semaine (05/12/22)

A la une : Le masque sanitaire sous toutes ses coutures / sous la direction de Franck Cochoy, Gérald Gaglio, Anaïs Daniau

Cote de rangement : GN 419 .5 M 265723 / Domaine : Anthropologie

"En 2020, quand la Covid nous est tombée sur la tête, les masques sanitaires nous sont aussi tombés sur le nez. Cela dit, Covid et masques sont-ils indissociables ? Le masque n’a-t-il pas des origines plus anciennes ? Est-il désormais devenu un article de mode ? Le masque sanitaire standard a-t-il muté en de multiples « variants » ? Comment se saisir des masques selon qu’on les destine à des enfants, à des « premiers de corvée », à des soignants ou à des commerçants ? Le masque a-t-il été porteur de préoccupations environnementales selon qu’il est jetable ou fait maison ? Comment discours savants et profanes sur la « vérité » des masques s’articulent-ils ?

Cet ouvrage foisonnant apporte des réponses à ces questions et à bien d’autres encore. Il mobilise pour cela un riche éventail de données : archives historiques, témoignages, entretiens, articles de presse, discussions en ligne, etc.

Il est le produit d’un travail collectif de sociologues des sciences et des techniques, des marchés, de la santé et de l’action publique. Le masque sanitaire y est abordé sous toutes ses coutures afin d’explorer les nombreux enjeux qu’il a suscités, et de nous aider ainsi à mieux apprivoiser cet intrus venu soudain envahir mais aussi protéger le cours de nos vies." - Quatrième de couverture

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Sociologie

Petite philosophie de la chaussette / Jean-Claude Kaufmann

Cote de rangement : GT 2128 K 265725

La fabrique du muscle / Guillaume Vallet

Cote de rangement : GV 546 .5 V 265734

La guerre des générations aura-t-elle lieu ? / Frédéric Monlouis-Félicité

Cote de rangement : HM 726 M 265724

Le soin des choses : politiques de la maintenance / Jérôme Denis, David Pontille

Cote de rangement : HM 846 D 265728

Algorithmic intimacy : the digital revolution in personal relationships / Anthony Elliott

Cote de rangement : HM 1106 E 265735

L'histoire mondiale des riches / Fabrice d'Almeida

Cote de rangement : HT 635 D 265731

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Sciences politiques

A world of insecurity : democratic disenchantment in rich and poor countries / Pranab Bardhan

Cote de rangement : JC 423 B 265739

Democracy in hard places / edited by Scott Mainwaring and Tarek Masoud

Cote de rangement : JC 423 D 265742

On revolutions : unruly politics in the contemporary world / Colin J. Beck, Mlada Bukovansky, Erica Chenoweth, George Lawson, Sharon Erickson Nepstad, and Daniel P. Ritter

Cote de rangement : JC 491 B 265746

Social media, freedom of speech, and the future of our democracy / edited by Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone

Cote de rangement : JC 591 B 265743

Hostile forces : how the Chinese communist party resists international pressure on human rights / Jamie J. Gruffydd-Jones

Cote de rangement : JC 599 .C6 G 265745

Russia's path to the high-Tech battlespace / Roger N. McDermott

Cote de rangement : U 43 .R9 M 265740

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Communication

La guerre qu'on ne voit pas venir / Nathalie Loiseau

Cote de rangement : HV 6773 .15.C97 L 265727

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Méthodologie

Explaining research : how to reach key audiences to advance your work / Dennis Meredith

Cote de rangement : Q 223 M 265741

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Environnement

Sustainability : a history / Jeremy L. Caradonna

Cote de rangement : GE 195 C 265737

La condition terrestre : habiter la Terre en communs / Sophie Gosselin, David gé Bartoli

Cote de rangement : GF 41 G 265729

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Informatique

Algocratie : vivre libre à l'heure des algorithmes / Arthur Grimonpont

Cote de rangement : QA 76 .9.A43 G 265732

Applied bayesian statistics / Scott M. Lynch

Cote de rangement : QA 279 .5 L 265736

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Gestion

The burnout challenge : managing people's relationships with their jobs / Christina Maslach and Michael P. Leiter

Cote de rangement : BF 481 M 265738

#Nego : qu'oseriez-vous négocier si vous n'aviez pas peur ? / Eric Blondeau

Cote de rangement : BF 637 .N4 B 265730

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Économie

Solving social dilemmas : ethics, politics, and prosperity / Roger D. Congleton

Cote de rangement : HB 846 .8 C 265744

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Santé

Face à l'antibiorésistance : une écologie politique des microbes / Charlotte Brives

Cote de rangement : QR 177 B 265733

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Philosophie

Le siècle des égarés / Julia de Funès

Cote de rangement : BD 236 D 265726

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Tous ces ouvrages sont exposés sur le présentoir des nouveautés de la BSPO. Ceux-ci pourront être empruntés à domicile à partir du 19 décembre 2022.

#anthropologie #Sociologie #SciencesPolitiques #Communication #Méthodologie #Environnement #Informatique #Gestion #Economie #Santé #Philosophie

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sfcrowsnest · 2 years

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Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (full 1956 scifi B movie).

Produced by Walter Wanger and Don Siegel, and starring Kevin McCarthy and Dana Wynter, Invasion of the Body Snatchers is an American science fiction horror film from 1956. The Body Snatchers was written by Jack Finney in 1954 and was adapted for the cinema by Daniel Mainwaring. The plot of the film centres on an alien invasion that starts in the made-up California town of Santa Mira. Large seed…

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goodtobegeeking · 2 years

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Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (full 1956 scifi B movie).

Produced by Walter Wanger and Don Siegel, and starring Kevin McCarthy and Dana Wynter, Invasion of the Body Snatchers is an American science fiction horror film from 1956. The Body Snatchers was written by Jack Finney in 1954 and was adapted for the cinema by Daniel Mainwaring. The plot of the film centres on an alien invasion that starts in the made-up California town of Santa Mira. Large seed…

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filmnoirfoundation · 3 years

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ASK EDDIE Returns on Thursday!

FNF prez Eddie Muller responds to film noir fan questions fielded by the Foundation's Director of Communications Anne Hockens. In this edition, we discuss the upcoming Blu-ray releases of three of our restoration as well as karma, existentialism, “blundering flatfoots” and flashbacks in film noir. Plus, Eddie and Anne respond to “noir or not” inquiries regarding THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER, Universal’s Sherlock Holmes film series, three classic TV shows and six neo-noirs. On the cat front, Charlotte is her usual brazen self. For your calendars — our following two episodes will stream on consecutive Thursday evenings, September 23 and 30, 7:00 pm PT on our Facebook page and will be on our YouTube channel on September 24 and November 1.

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#film noir #livestream #eddie muller #noir city #film noir foundation #the night of the hunter #noir or not #neo-noir #flashbacks #existentialism #daniel mainwaring

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theoakleafpancake · 2 years

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07. Young

Was wondering what to do when I remembered @sarascamander’s AU with Maddie and Daniel’s child/teenage feud, so we have these two thinking about how they want to strangle one another

#ranger gathering 2022 #rangers apprentice #john flanagan #maddie altman #daniel treaty mainwaring #also #the necklace around maddie’s neck used to be cassie’s which was made by evanlyn for her #and then cassie passed it down to her daughter #oakleafpancake art #sylvar’s art #my art

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screamscenepodcast · 3 years

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They're here! And you're next!! Your deadicated hosts enter 1956 with INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS from director Don Siegel and producer Walter Wanger, based on the Jack Finney novel.

The film is often viewed with a Cold War, Red Scare lens, but is it really Communism we're supposed to be afraid of?

Context setting 00:00; Synopsis 43:38; Discussion 1:00:33; Ranking 1:35:49

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esperwatchesfilms · 3 years

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

ESE: 95/100

50 +5 for Becky’s dress +5 for discovering the “blank person” +10 for immediately checking on Becky -5 for trying rationalize facts away +10 for pod people +5 for a building sense of hopelessness +5 for quick thinking +5 for resisting +5 for getting away and finding someone who eventually believes it

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byneddiedingo · 2 years

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Atlantis: The Lost Continent (George Pal, 1961)

Cast: Sal Ponti (as Anthony Hall), Joyce Taylor, John Dall, William Smith, Edward Platt, Frank DeKova, Barry Kroeger, Edgar Stehli, Wolfe Barzell, Jay Novello, Paul Frees (voice). Screenplay: Daniel Mainwaring, based on a play by Gerald Hargreaves. Cinematography: Harold E. Wellman. Art direction: George W. Davis, William Ferrari. Film editing: Ben Lewis. Music: Russell Garcia.

Before there were computers to mess around with, before motion capture and CGI, George Pal was known as a master of practical special effects: using models and miniatures, stop motion and camera tricks in the films he produced in the 1950s -- classics like Destination Moon (Irving Pichel, 1950), When Worlds Collide (Rudolph Maté, 1951), and The War of the Worlds (Byron Haskin, 1953) -- and the ones he directed, including Tom Thumb (1958) and The Time Machine (1960). But by the time he got to Atlantis: The Lost Continent, the crumbling studio system no longer was willing to foot the bill for his brand of sci-fi and fantasy. Pal was reduced to borrowing footage from older films like Quo Vadis (Mervyn LeRoy, 1951) and The Naked Jungle (Byron Haskin, 1954), and even his own The Time Machine to piece out the scenes of the destruction of Atlantis. Keen-eyed watchers of the movie have recognized some of the props and set decor from older films, such as the giant pagan idol that dominates one scene; it had been warehoused after use in The Prodigal (Richard Thorpe, 1955). Tom Thumb had featured stars like Russ Tamblyn, Peter Sellers, and Terry-Thomas, and The Time Machine starred the up-and-coming Rod Taylor, but the cast of Atlantis: The Lost Continent is decidedly second- and even third-tier. It would be the last theatrical film for John Dall, who had never quite made it to major stardom, and the male lead in the film was a Philadelphia songwriter named Sal Ponti trying to break into acting as Anthony Hall. He wound up in small roles on TV series, as did the female lead, Joyce Taylor. So all in all, Atlantis is a decidedly second-hand affair, with some narrative gaps and a lot of sword-and-sandal clichés. Still, Pal was no slouch at making do with what he had on hand, and while the movie is no sleeper hit or even cult classic, it has some entertaining moments.

#Atlantis: The Lost Continent #George Pal #Sal Ponti #Anthony Hall #Joyce Taylor #John Dall

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