“ISLE OF LOST SHIPS"

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 852, 21 December 1929, Page 18

“ISLE OF LOST SHIPS"

STRANGE FILM FOR MAJESTIC A highly imaginative story based on scientific fact, from the pen of Crittenden Marriott, and a startling First National Vitaphone picture adapted from the story, may result in the first exploration of the Sargossa Sea. This great central eddy in the Atlantic, if it is to be explored, must be explored from the air. Seaweed, hundreds of miles in extent, renders all other methods of approach impracticable. The story of “The Isle of Lost Ships,” a thrilling dramatic film, with Virginia Valli, Jason Robards, Noah Beery and an all-star supporting cast, takes for granted that the Sargossa Sea is inhabited. Many scientists share this belief, since it undoubtedly contains the wreckage of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of derelict ships. These, it is supposed, gravitate toward the centre of this sea, safe from storms and buoyed by a veritable island of seaweed so that they can never sink. Several plans, for an air expedition to the slowly shifting location of the Sargossa Sea in the North Atlantic have been under consideration. This film will be shown at the Majestic Theatre from Boxing Day, Thursday next.