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The Incredible Petrified World (1957)
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1957 (USA) moreTagline:
See women trapped in fantastic caverns at the center of Earth!Plot:
Four adventurers descend to the depths of the ocean when the cable on their underwater diving bell snaps... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
Petrify me, please! moreCast
(Complete credited cast)| John Carradine | ... | Prof. Millard Wyman | |
| Robert Clarke | ... | Craig Randall | |
| Phyllis Coates | ... | Dale Marshall | |
| Allen Windsor | ... | Paul Whitmore | |
| Sheila Noonan | ... | Lauri Talbott | |
| George Skaff | ... | Dr. J.R. Matheny | |
| Maurice Bernard | ... | Old Man in the Caverns | |
| Joe Maierhouser | ... | Jim Wyman | |
| Lloyd Nelson | ... | Wilson, Sonar Man | |
| Harry Raven | ... | The Captain | |
| Milt Collion | ... | Hank | |
| Robert Carroll | ... | Narrator | |
| Lowell Hopkins | ... | Reporter | |
| Jack Haffner | ... | Jimmy, Reporter |
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70 min | USA:64 min (DVD)Country:
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In an interview, star Robert Clarke said that the film's cinematographer is actually a well-known Hollywood cameraman who used the pseudonym "Victor Fisher" so he wouldn't get in trouble with the union for taking a job on this non-union picture. moreQuotes:
Dale Marshall: [to Lauri] You just listen to me, Miss Innocent. There's nothing friendly between two females. There never was. There never will be.Lauri Talbott: Sorry you feel that way. I was hoping we could help each other.
Dale Marshall: You don't need help - neither do I. Not as long as we have two men around us.
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The title of this simply begs for ridicule; especially as it has absolutely nothing to do with the film---other than the puns furnished by other reviewers.
I actually fell asleep twice during this happy horsesh*t and had to go back in case I missed something interesting---I should have stayed asleep as nothing remotely resembling the word "interesting" ever became evident. Now this isn't the worst movie I've even seen. (That honour belongs to Eegah.) But it comes amazingly close.
There were so many technical flaws in this movie, even someone like me noticed em (I try very hard not to pay attention to the technical aspects of a movie so as not to spoil my enjoyment). Maybe it's cause there was no story to occupy me that I was forced to notice other things. How many 1000s of feet were they down with no pressure problems? What kind of diving bell lets divers in and out without any water getting in? (I guess you could pump enough compressed air in to equalise the pressure---but then what would you need the bell for?) How do they pop up to the surface at the end so quickly without nitrogen poisoning (bends)? Also, what kind of volcano produces breathable oxygen? And glowing caves complete with caveman and dumb iguana? **sound of eyes rolling**.
Was there a story somewhere? If so, I've forgotten. Oh yeah. Now I remember: 4 dopes descend in bell, which breaks loose. They tour glowing caves. Caveman tries to go for girl. Volcano (or whatever lame excuse they had for a volcano) intervenes---was there more?---I'm getting sleepy just thinking about this movie.
People don't torture yourselves with this bs---zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz