The Lost Continent aka the lost continent (The Lost Continent - UK 1968) and Michael Carreras (uncredited) Leslie Norman
aka The Lost The lost continent (Trailer)
SHEET FILM On the bridge of a modern merchant ship, completely wrapped in spirals of yellow fog, a funeral is taking place. Nothing particularly strange if it were not for the presence, along with sailors and passengers, some members of the English Inquisition, the conquistadors and soldiers with a lot of characteristic morione, blunderbuss and halberd.
It 'clear that a starting so eccentric as to fade Lansdale, can not but raise questions such as: and now how can they justify such a freak? and again, the explanation will be sufficiently bizarre? when the same captain (and I with him) asked: "How did we get to this point?", one senses that the time has come for the sprite of the flashback, to make its characteristic triple somersault back pike .
Many have likened, not unreasonably, the first part of "The Lost" a sort of Love Boat on acid.
On board a ship, departing from some West African country and direct in Caracas, is a fair example of humanity outcast (gimmick that can boast of illustrious predecessors, from "Stagecoach" down): a cantankerous and authoritarian Captain (novel Blight) his second cowardly (and fake blond), a drunk a bit 'marpione playing the piano, a very pretty blonde, who intuits be brief Leste (and spupazza fact, almost immediately, one of the sailors), the doctor father the blonde (sanctimonious and hypocritical, since it is actually much worse than the daughter), another blonde, this time matured, and a mysterious guy and wiry mustache, presumably all running from something. The second
pusillanimous, after discovering that the ship carries only losers, but also tons of tons of a particular explosive, which has the unique characteristic of making "boom" when in contact with water (great idea to carry it for ship), he realizes that the cargo is moving, flying drum, into the mouth of a storm (the captain pulled the sheet, keeping the crew in the dark, want to go forward at all costs and so on. etc.). . After an unsuccessful attempt to gain the support of passengers (which, after all, does not seem to import a club, nor the storm, much less explosive), the second is involved pusillanimous nell'ammutinamento cloths good crew. In the midst of the storm, the mutineers flee on a boat (even if it leaves us with a pen, the blonde from spupazzato to be precise), while the ship embarks water, especially in the galley where they packed the barattoloni containing l ' explosive that does "bum" on contact with water. The captain persuaded the passengers to help move the jars in a slightly drier. However, since the ship also seems destined to sink, the captain decided to abandon the cargo, trying their luck on the only free boat (all this after ten minutes good movie, having been moved from place to place cans).
In the following days, the boat's romance blossoms between the captain and milfona blonde (who actually is the former mistress of a powerful politician in South America, on the run) germinate well and a couple of deaths: the hypocritical doctor, who is swallowed by the sharks, because marpione drunkard (which from that moment on, redeem himself by saying goodbye to the bottle), and a sailor that's crazy right after , killed by a gun milfona with rocket launchers. After days and days of sailing at random, the boat is shrouded in mist and surrounded by strange-looking algae hardly reassuring. It makes the cost the Indian ship's cook (that Hurry Curry!), Dragged down by the hungry algae, a second before the boat banging against the side of a ship, which turns out to be the same ship from where they left (a discreet knock on the ass when you consider that you are in the Atlantic Ocean and Lake Martignano). The ship is so surrounded by algae, which create a sort of "floor", to be unable to restart. Passengers trying to make the best of a bad situation, trying to resume their habits: the blonde tries in vain to seduce the former drunkard (and former Marple, at this point) that a few days before, has virtually killed the father and the captain milfona the chirping, but then she ends up sleeping with wiry mustache (which in fact was sent by the South American political footsteps of milfona and accepting, without hesitation, payment in kind in exchange for his silence), the captain finds out and there is bad enough. Not only that the mercantile seems to be finished in what is a veritable "graveyard for ships", because, enveloped by algae, loom the silhouettes of countless ships of every era and style, including a number of English galleons.
One night the blonde, tired of the continued rejection of the former drunk, tries to lure, on the deck of the ship, the wiry mustache. Thank God there is some cosmic justice (trumpet both blondes were, in fact, too) before the two can be concluded, fetid greenish waters emerge from the tentacular appendages of a monster covered in algae, which dragged the victim to a fate, one intuits be worse than death. Passengers have not yet recovered from the shock (of the discovery of having missed the last chance of a decent trumpet, in the case of the blonde) who, in the distance, they see a figure advance. This is another blonde, long roof (but some) who walks on water (or rather, seaweed), thanks to an ingenious found: on the back door two yellow balloons tied to the feet and wearing two tiny boats. The tit tells passengers to be a descendant of the English conquistadors, who were trapped in these waters for centuries (what they ate and drank for centuries, no one knows). However, she is not alone, since the ship was attacked almost immediately by some thugs who wander among the algae, balloons hanging from the characteristic (where they found balloons and helium, is another thing that we do not know) . The crew heroically faces the assault and the descendants of Cortez are forced to flee. Returning to the galleon from where they left, they discover that their prince (a child so that stronzino tireresti two slaps, so, just for good measure) is not used to taking very well the failures of others. In fact, driven by the chief inquisitors (a guy with the cap), the child is unlucky to throw the meal to a sea monster, a cross between the tentacled Lovecraftian influences and their twisted bamboo planting of Ikea.
Meanwhile on the ship, decides to flee the tit; you reinsert balloons and inflatable boats and a second after she finds herself walking on sciacquettando algae. Some of the crew running after him (using the balloons of the guys died in the attempt boarding), only to end up in the middle of a battle between two monsters of rubber: a giant crab from the blue eyes and a scorpion. In a frenzy of rubber, our manage to escape the fangs of paper mache monsters, but not in the hands of the English Inquisition. Once in chains aboard the galleon, seems destined to thicken the ranks of those who ended up putting on weight the monster, when, at the climax, the rest of the crew led by captain on the vessel bursts. Lee-Enfield rifles against muskets and halberds and, in a jiffy, England beat Spain 3-0 in a great ease. The prince even stronzino repents (just before the attack, through the words of a sailor who inoculated the doubt in the brain) and understand (in three seconds flat) to have been manipulated for years by the chief inquisitors, to meet his lust for blood. However, it will not go very far, stabbed in the back, just dall'infido inquisitor, just before it throws the bucket (yes, the funeral at the beginning of the film is just what the young prince).
explosive grand finale (which justifies, in part, presence, hitherto useless barattoloni in the hold of the ship), with the galleon that blows up in an uproar of fireworks and the ship which is now free from algae burned in the explosion (the galleons were trapped for centuries when it would be enough to set fire to the algae, it seems), he goes, to where no one knows.
MEISTER STEINER SAYS: 4.5
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