Specialty CollectionGenre: SILENT FEATURE FILMS
Description: LUXURY OCEAN LINER SINKS. DISASTER SIMILAR TO THE TITANIC. LIFEBOATS. CHARACTERS INCLUDE: DR. KAMMACHER, A BACTERIOLOGIST AND FATHER OF THREE YOUNG CHILDREN. HIS WIFE HAS AN HEREDITARY MENTAL DISEASE. THE DOCTOR'S REVOLUTIONARY RESEARCH IN REJECTED BY THE BIOLOGICAL INSTITUTE IN BERLIN. MRS. KAMMACHER HAS TRIED TO STAB HER HUSBAND WITH A PAIR OF SCISSORS, AND IS PLACED IN AN ASYLUM FOR TREATMENT BY HER PHYSICIAN. THE CHILDREN ARE LEFT WITH THEIR GRANDPARENTS. RECUPERATE. INGRID, A SELF-CENTERED PRIMA DONNA DANCER. A RUSSIAN-JEWISH GIRL PASSENGER IN STEERAGE. ARMLESS MAN, CHARLES UNTHAN, A VAUDEVILLIAN PERFORMER WHO USES HIS FEET AS HANDS. DURING A FOGGY NIGHT AT SEA, THE OCEAN LINER HITS A WRECK AND BEGINS TO SINK. MAN SLEEPS AND DREAMS THAT HE IS TAKING A WALK THROUGH THE LEGENDARY, UNDERWATER LOST CONTINENT OF ATLANTIS. PANIC ON BOARD THE SHIP. SURVIVORS IN LIFEBOATS RESCUED BY A FREIGHTER ON ITS WAY TO NEW YORK. BOHEMIAN ARTISTS OF GREENWICH VILLAGE. SCULPTRESS. MAN MOVES TO AN ISOLATED MOUNTAIN CABIN TO BE ALONE. HERMIT. BECOMES SICK. GOES TO EUROPE TO BE WITH HIS CHILDREN. INCLUDES RUSSIAN ENDING IN WHICH MAN HAS HEART ATTACK AND DIES.
