
Dr. Jerimiah Morley becomes convinced that the world is headed to an inevitable worldwide nuclear war. He organizes an expedition made up of a team of expert scientists and an atomic-powered rock-boring vehicle called a "cyclotram" to find a subterranean environment where holocaust survivors could live indefinitely. When funding falls through, independently rich adventurer Wright Thompson underwrites the project under the condition that he be allowed to go. As the group goes ... (Full plot summary below)
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Dr. Jerimiah Morley becomes convinced that the world is headed to an inevitable worldwide nuclear war. He organizes an expedition made up of a team of expert scientists and an atomic-powered rock-boring vehicle called a "cyclotram" to find a subterranean environment where holocaust survivors could live indefinitely. When funding falls through, independently rich adventurer Wright Thompson underwrites the project under the condition that he be allowed to go. As the group goes deeper beneath the Earth's crust, personalities clash, tempers flare, and the dangerous journey claims the lives of several expedition members. When they come upon an enormous underground expanse with its own ocean and phosphorescent light, it appears that their goal has been achieved.
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| User ReviewKurt BThis feature is your classic 'tunnel to the centre of the earth' scenario but on this occasion they are doing it in search of another place for people to live after they have come to the conclusion that soon the earth will not be habitable after the event of a nuclear war. A bog standard drilling machine that also houses the crew is constructed and after some external funding our hero's get on their way. Throughout the film I felt as if it was almost a science lesson to the viewer, the way the characters explain why stalactites and caverns are formed when everyone in the group knows how they are formed because they are all seasoned scientists or at least harbour a few brain cells. The world they are exploring is not your typical centre of the earth filled with dense jungles and dinosaurs but rather just normal caverns and miles of stalactites so to stop us getting bored we see two of the main characters kicking of every five minutes with our busty companion getting in the mix to sort it out. At one point some silly sausage leaves the ships only water exposed to some dangerous gasses and spoils it all but for some reason to the woman of the group this is the least of her worries as you can blatantly see in her chops when she discovers Rabbits can't breed in this underground world. I thought rabbits lived and bonked underground myself, I think this happened because of the vibrations from the drilling machine digging a good 1600 miles underground through solid rock that seen all the test rabbits babies of but that's just me. It may seem pretty ridiculous in places but I'm sure this film had allot to say back in 1950, being only 5 years since Hiroshima people would have been predicting similar things about the end of the world and the ideas in such films might have frightened people more than any horror film at the time. |
| User ReviewRay JNot bad for it's day and neither were the FX. Great for nostalgia buffs. |
| User ReviewJustin WResan till jordens medelpunkt-variant som är bättre än man tror. Väldigt lik remaken med Brendan Fraser, faktiskt! |
| User ReviewRick LA typical Sci-Fi movie from the fifties, that recalls a different time perfectly. A step above some of the other terrible ones I've seen. Pretty funny, since it has plenty of terrible lines as the directer just writes in typical dialog. |
| User ReviewGreg WUnknwon World (aka "To the Center of the Earth") Starring: Victor Kilian, Bruce Kellogg, Marilyn Nash, and Otto Waldis Director: Terry O. Morse A group of obnoxious scientiest and their boorish, wealthy patron hop in their nifty drilling amphibeous underearth ATV to explore deep underground, hoping to find a place where humankind can retreat to in case of a nuclear disaster. Never has so little happened during a "let's go looking for the underground world"-type movie. I think I can safely say that, despite the high bodycount among expedition members, the enterprise undertaken by the characters in "Unknown World" is the least eventful, most uninteresting, and ultimately pointles journey to "inner-earth" that any fictional characters have ever undertaken. There's no much here, exept a slighly more scientific take on what explorers might find deep underground--as in, no monsters, no nubile, scantily clad queens of Atlantis, no nothing. And, frankly, if you're going to make a movie about guys drilling their way to the center of the Earth, you better damn well give me some monsters and nubile barbarian queens at the far end! ("The Core" would have been better if there had been babes in loinclothes and little else at the end of that trip, too.) |
| User Reviewmichael bThis is like a cross between Journey To The Centre of the Earth and the Fantastic Voyage. A pending atomic crisis forces scientists underground to search for a new home for humanity. |
| User ReviewBruce Ba very very dull 50's sci-fi clone of journey to the center of the earth. the acting is forgettable, the dialog is stupid, and the only thing worth watching it for is the extreme vintage quality. i prefer journey to the center of the earth though. |
| User ReviewEdward WAbsolutely terrible. This movie features: bland characters, terrible pacing, repetitive shots that sort of look like caves, the claim that "the core of the earth is actually cooler than its surface", the least accurate portrayal of a feminist of all time, the silliest falling mannequin of all time, the least satisfying ending ever. This movie has one - yes, literally, ONE - interesting shot, and the rest of it is terrible. There's a moment near the end when one of the scientists looks horrified and I like to pretend he realizes, even glimpses, just for a moment, the magnitude of this movie's failure. |