Word: montez
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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 women who ever lived, which I do not, the Atlantic image falls let. Miss Montez carefully avoids any acting and just stares blankly like a hungry cow. She seeks charm by making her clothes from veils and by using a Spanish accent, but Jean Pierre Aumont triumphs completely in the battle...
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 metal for an interesting trophy room. Although she ensnares Jean Pierre Aumont, he manages to escape, and then tries to return for no better reason than to follow the "Lost Horizon" plot...
...wheel in this novel civilization is a slinky siren named Antinea (Maria Montez). When a couple of the Foreign Legion boys (Jean Pierre Aumont and Dennis O'Keefe) blunder into her boudoir cooking for a missing French archeologist (he shows up eventually, tidily gold-leafed in the Visitors' Gallery), she plays them off against each other. Then she plays both off against the old embalming fluid...
Black Bart (Universal-International). Yvonne de Carlo (in glowing Technicolor) as Lola Montez; Dan Duryea and Jeffrey Lynn as rival swains and bandits. There is little illusion of quality about this western, and too little of the deadpan kidding that has made some other De Carlo pictures a pleasure...
John Harburger and Frederic Hirst-known collectively as John-Frederics, creators of costly millinery trifles-ambiguously declared that Joan Crawford is positively Hollywood's "sexiest hat wearer." Maria Montez, they confided, is the "maddest...