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Because he's convinced humankind will eliminate itself for too long and
destroy and contaminate the upper world before too long, Professor Morley
(Victor Kilian) plans an expedition to the inside of the earth to find
utopia miles and miles below the surface. But of course, such an
expedition, and especially the vehicle he has developed to take everybody
inside, costs money, and nobody is willing to pay, nobody but all-American
boy/journalist/adventurer/rich kid Thompson (Bruce Kellogg), who insists
to come along though. So the professor takes his gang of scientists
(Marilyn Nash, Jim Bannon, Otto Waldis, Tom Handley, Dick Cogan) and
Thompson, and off they are to inner earth. Soon enough, two of the
scientists (Handly and Cogan) die while tensions erupt between the others
and Thompson, whom they label an ignorant fool - which isn't completely
wrong. Especially Andy (Jim Bannon), who's about Thompson's age, doesn't
like him one bit, because they vy for the attentions of Joan (Marilyn
Nash), the only female member of the group. Still, Andy saves Thompson's
life when he almost falls into a bottomless pit and gives his own in the
process - which teaches Thompson a lesson in humility. Eventually, our
heroes find what the professor considers the perfect spot for his utopia,
a giant illuminated cave with a lake, vast planes for cultivation of crops
and the like. So it seems he has reached his goal - but then it turns out
the below-surface climate has turned all their lab animals sterile, which
means humankind would not have a chance to survive her for long. The
professor insists on staying anyways, but then the whole place crumbles
and caves in after a volcano eruption, and while the professor decides to
go down with it, the others make it out and up to fhe surface just in
time.
A cheaply made science fiction film with shades of Jules Verne's Journey
to the Center of the Earth that undoubtedly has its moments,
but is marred by a script that is a tad too clichéed to remain
interesting, and that is also rather lacking in action. Add to this a cast
that's uniformly less than great and you're left with ... well, not a
total disaster, but a film that could have been better even within the
constraints of its budget and within genre confines. It's still an ok
piece of sci-fi nostalgia I guess, just not nearly as good as it could
have been.
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