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Even minor movies like the three below need a little love sometimes.

The first one is a made-for-TV movie in which the lovely Donna Summers finds a way to look 30 years younger than she really is. She spends three decades in suspended animation.

The second one is about a “continent” composed entirely of floating seaweed. A novel idea, but highly unlikely.

The third one stars Sabu in a tale about (get this) a “lost volcano”. I’m not sure how a volcano can be lost, but it makes a little more sense than a floating seaweed “continent”.
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Live Again, Die Again (1974 TV movie)

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After being cryogenically frozen for thirty years, Donna Mills is revived and reunited with her aging husband (Walter Pidgeon of "Forbidden Planet") and her grown-up kids (Vera Miles and Mike Farrell). But Mills discovers that somebody is trying to kill her.

This made-for-TV drama stretches its initial premise a bit thin, but it's nicely done on a pure soap opera level.

Directed by Richard A. Colla from a screenplay by Joseph Stephano. ____________________________________________________________________

The Lost Continent (1968 England)



A story called Uncharted Seas by Dennis Wheatley inspired this strange little mish-mash of fantasy, adventure, and science fiction by the prolific filmmakers at Hammer Studios.

A tramp steamer carrying a group of bickering, misfit passengers and a cargo of high explosives is ensnared by a giant, floating web of mobile seaweed. The seaweed hauls the ship to an even bigger mass of seaweed (a flat, floating island) which contains dozens of captured ships, some of which date back hundreds of years.

Unable to escape, the crews of these vessels have formed a micro society, with Spanish conquistadors as the dominant members, ruled by a sadistic boy-king; anyone who displeases him is sacrificed to a hungry, captive octopus-monster.

When the tramp steamer joins this weird environment, they are attacked by Spaniards who wear oversized inflatable footwear that enable them to walk across the undulating seaweed terrain.

If all this sounds pretty wild and far-fetched, you're right. The Lost Continent may be short on credibility but it's long on imagination. The film is, in a sense, Hammer studios' answer to Monty Python's famous line: "And now for something completely different."

Produced and directed by Michael Carreras. ____________________________________________________________________

The Lost Volcano (1950)

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One of eleven films that make up the "Bomba the Jungle Boy" series, starring Johnny Sheffield ("Boy" from the Tarzan series).

In this one, Bomba is forced to lead a greedy group of men to a secret diamond mine in a Lost-World-type region of Africa.

Also starring Majorie Lord ("The Danny Thomas Show") and Donald Woods. Ford Beebe directed the series.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)