Battle Beneath the Earth (1967)

User Rating:

4.2/10   

Director:

Montgomery Tully

Writers:

Charles F. Vetter (story)
Charles F. Vetter (original screenplay)

Release Date:

15 May 1968 (USA)

Genre:

Sci-Fi | Thriller

Tagline:

An Incredible Battle Is Raging Right Under Your Feet!

Plot:

A Chinese general goes berserk and has a system of tunnels made all the way from China to USA, under the Pacific Ocean...

Plot Keywords:

Tunnel | Chinese | Bomb

Cast

Kerwin Mathews	...	Cmdr. Jonathan Shaw
Vivienne Ventura	...	Tila Yung (as Viviane Ventura)
Robert Ayres	...	Adm. Felix Hillebrand
Peter Arne	...	Arnold Kramer
Al Mulock	...	Sgt. Marvin Mulberry
Martin Benson	...	Gen. Chan Lu
Peter Elliott	...	Dr. Kengh Lee
Earl Cameron	...	Sgt. Seth Hawkins
John Brandon	...	Maj. Frank Cannon
Ed Bishop	...	Lt. Cmdr. Vance Cassidy (as Edward Bishop)
Bill Nagy	...	Col. Talbot Wilson
Sarah Brackett	...	Meg Webson
Paula Li Shiu	...	Dr. Arnn
David Spenser	...	Maj. Chai
Michael McStay	...	Bomb Train Commander

Also Known As:

Battle Beneath the Sea (USA)

Runtime:

91 min

Country:

UK | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

Reynolds-Vetter Productions Ltd.

Trivia:

Last feature of Carl Jaffe.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: In the opening scene in the police car the back projection is shown flipped so that all the store names read backwards. This is probably because the scenes were shot in Britain, who drive on the left, but set in the USA, who drive on the right.

Movie Connections:

Edited into Out of this World Super Shock Show (2007) (V)

British And Not Very Proud Of It

This a British film attempting to pretend to everyone and fooling no one that it`s a big budget Hollywood movie . It starts with a couple of Las Vegas cops with laughably bad American accents getting a report of a disturbance . Cut to some stock footage of Vegas with the cop car stopping beside a sidewalk that was obviously filmed inside a studio . Every expense has been spared with BATTLE BENEATH THE EARTH . Despite being set in the 1960s all the American troops have firearms and wear kit from the second world war while those nasty Chinese commies have death rays that are obviously flash lights , and in order to save on importing Chinese actors we have caucasians playing oriental villains . Why couldn`t they have employed Burt Kwouk ( Kato from THE PINK PANTHER movies ) I ask myself ?

There is some enjoyment to be had from BATTLE BENEATH THE EARTH since it`s one of those " So bad it`s good " type films complete with absolutely ridiculous scenes that defy logic such as GIs` being able to defuse atomic bombs and people managing to outrun the blast from a nuclear explosion