Aubert (France)
Directed by Jacques Feyder
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Home Vision Entertainment)
Two French military officers discover the lost kingdom of Atlantis in the middle of the Sahara Desert. Not sure if they are guests or captives, they browse its extensive library, are waited on by personal servants and generally treated well. Ruler Queen Antinea, who has a collection of ex-husbands mummified in gold in a special room, sets her eyes on one of the men, but he refuses her advances, infuriating her. One of the Queen's slave girls falls in love with the other man. One night, the Queen drugs him and he murders his friend. Racked with guilt, he manages to escape by camel with the slave girl, but one of them will not survive the long trek through the desert. Spectacular sets and exotic desert scenery... but the main problem is the Queen herself, a miscast Stacia Napierkowska, who is anything but seductive.
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