This is the 3rd, and most recent, in the three films I've seen by controversial director G.W. Pabst, after his extraordinary silent classics, 'Pandora's Box' and 'Diary of a Lost Girl', both starring legendary screen goddess Louise Brooks. It's the English-language version of 'L'Atlantide', itself a sound-remake of the '21 silent film by Jacques Fe…

This is probably as far removed from any other tale of “Atlantis” as you will encounter as it places the kingdom under the desert rather than under the sea! It is accidentally discovered by two French Foreign Legionnaires who are lost in a sandstorm. “St. Avit” (John Stuart) and “Ferrières” (Georges Tourrell) consider themselves fortunate to have b…