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Jerry WarrenNäyttelijät:
John Carradine, Robert Clarke, Phyllis Coates, Sheila Noonan, George Skaff, Jerry WarrenJuonikuvaukset(1)
A professor lowers four people in a diving bell deep into a cave where they discover a strange world. (jakelijan virallinen teksti)
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Poster tagline: SEE... TERROR IN THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH! CAVERNS OF FORGOTTEN MEN! MONSTERS! EARTHQUAKES! VOLCANOES! In the 1950s, usually the more exalted and exciting the title and advertising, the more boring and useless the film was, and that’s absolutely true here. Unlike the previous and amazingly stupid Man Beast, here I see a definite forward movement in the work of Jerry Warren (considered a second Ed Wood Jr. by critics and B-movie fans of the 1950s and 60s). It's still amazingly stupid, breaking every rule of logic, every conceivable law of physics, including Archimedes's, but that’s something I kind of expect from Warren. In keeping with the mandatory minimum one-hour runtime, there's an initial ten-minute voiceover about marine life, accompanied by documentary footage cut from other films. Then we dive briefly to the bottom of the sea with a diving bell that crashes and the screenwriting mayhem can kick in full force. Divers at a depth of one kilometre go up and down the bell, as they please, without affecting the climate inside, on the seabed they find a stalactite cave, in which the light is as bright as on a clear day, there is not a drop of sea water in it, on the contrary, what is not missing is a well of clean drinking water (!) and a shipwrecked man who looks like a hobo. According to his words, he’s been there for 14 years, after his boat sunk to the bottom of the sea and sometimes leaves the cave to catch fresh fish. He lusts after a female scientist in the team and wants to woo her saying he’ll kill everyone so they can be alone, and when she rejects him, she threatens to kill her. Yeah, it would be hard to find a more stupid script. On the other hand, everything was filmed on location, so I can't deny Warren a certain effort, and when we are not in the cave and they are wondering how to rescue the divers it’s quite boring, but at least not in a way that would insult your brain. So I'd sum up the final impression with the phrase "harmless, boring crap".
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