The Lost Continent
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).
Plot
On board the tramp steamer Corita, Captain Lansen ignores a hurricane warning and a customs launch whose crew want to inspect his ship, as he is smuggling the explosive "Phosphor B" ('Phosphore Blanc', i.e. white phosphorus). His ship's passengers, a mix of rich and poor, also have reasons for leaving Freetown: Dr. Webster, together with his daughter Unity, for his indiscretions with patients; alcoholic conman Harry Tyler with a jacket lined with money; Eva Peters, a wife who has stolen bearer bonds to pay for the ransom on her son in Caracas, and lawyer, Ricaldi, pursuing Eva to retrieve those stolen bonds.
More details
| author | Michael Carreras |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Atlantic Ocean |
| director | Michael Carreras |
| editor | James Needs |
| genre | adventure fantasy horror |
| keywords | attack bearer bonds book of common prayer brontoscorpio burial at sea capirote capture carnivorous carnivorous plant chief engineer clothe conquistador doom force keuppia kill maroon morning octopus paleo scorpion ransom read rite seaweed smuggle spanish galleon spanish inquisition stab stolen bonds survive tramp tramp steamer walk warn white phosphorus |
| musicBy | Gerard Schurmann |
| producer | Michael Carreras |
| productionCompany | Hammer Film Productions Seven Arts Productions |
| publisher | Warner-Pathé Distributors |