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Legendary Atlantis may have been "enticing-exciting-exotic" as the billboards claim, but the movie "Siren of Atlantis" is not. This latest attempt to reproduce the "Lost Horizon" twist ends up in a dull, uninteresting, drab film.

Author: By Edward J. Sack, | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/11/1949 | See Source »

All the ballyhoo about the charm of Atlantis is completely lost on the screen. All that shows up are dingy rooms, some standard modern dance routines that are supposed to be pagan rituals, several hooded cloak and dagger men, and Maria Montez. Unless you consider Maria Montez the most fascinating...

Author: By Edward J. Sack, | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/11/1949 | See Source »

They turn up on the Sahara, where all good Legionnaires belong, get lost in that old sandstorm you remember from several other pictures, and wind up in mysterious Atlantis, Maria Montez rules this land with an iron bosom. She kills people right and left and has their bodies encased in...

Author: By Edward J. Sack, | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/11/1949 | See Source »

Siren of Atlantis (United Artists) may bring a moment of comfort to romantics who believe in the lost continent of Atlantis. It seems that the continent can be found this year somewhere near the Sahara Desert, within easy camel lope of a Foreign Legion post. Atlantis turns out to be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 17, 1949 | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

Some London newsmen, foregathered in a Fleet Street pub one day last week, got talking about the great news stories still to be written. Pretty soon they had a list. Their list, in order of importance, as reported by Overseas News Agency: 1) the discovery of Hitler alive, and an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Great Stories | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

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