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• The Lost Continent 1968

  • Glenn Heath
  • 10/31/12

  The Lost Continent is a good film to watch on a sick day or rainy day. The story line is about a tramp steamer, owned and operated by the captain, on it's last voyage. He sets out with an illegal cargo, and a passenger list of outcasts, each with a past. They run into trouble and a storm and end up abandoning the ship only to find even more trouble in an uncharted area of the Sargasso Sea. A vine that entangled many ships as far back as the Spanish galleons surrounded them and they eventually ended up finding the ship they originally abandoned. They get the ship in a safer condition and try to leave, but the vine has wrapped around the propeller. Wild creatures, people descended from the past, and the vine itself, create quite a voyage. A good B movie from the Hammer Studios in the UK. The actors, including Eric Porter and Hildegard Knef, were very good and the drama in between action scenes would have made a good movie on it's own.

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