Distributor :		Columbia Pictures, for the USA, Parafrance, for France, EMI/British Lion, for Great-Britain (1978 - 95 minutes)
Producer :		John Dark
Director :		Kevin Connor
Writer :		Brian Hayles
Art director :		Jack Maxsted
Composer :		Mike Vickers
Cast :
Doug McClure Gregory Collinson Peter Gilmore Charles Aitken Shane Rimmer Captain Mike Daniels Michael Gothard Atmir Cyd Charisse Atsil Daniel Massey Atraxon

Plot :

In 1896, the aging Professor Aitken and his son Charles charter an expedition aboard an American boat. They dive into the depths in an experimental bathysphere designed by engineer Greg Collinson. But under the water they are snatched by a giant octopus and taken down to Vaar, one of the five remaining of the seven sunken cities of Atlantis. The group of explorers are imprisoned, destined to be used as troops to defend Atlantis from the ever-present attacks from giant mutants, except Charles Aitken, whom the Atlanteans consider as one of theirs, because of his superior intelligence. As they marvel at the Atlantean super-science, the prisoners learn that the Atlanteans are really survivors from a dying Mars who are using their superior mental abilities to influence the outcome of human history and bring out mankind’s most warlike tendencies.

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