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At the Earth's Core (1976)
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July 1976 (USA)
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They're in it DEEP now! more
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A Victorian scientist and his young American backer set off in their new earth-boring machine with a short test on a Welsh mountain...
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1 nomination
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Silly sci-fi effort is sometimes a real hoot.
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Cast
(Credited cast)| Doug McClure | ... | David Innes | |
| Peter Cushing | ... | Dr. Abner Perry | |
| Caroline Munro | ... | Princess Dia | |
| Cy Grant | ... | Ra | |
| Godfrey James | ... | Ghak | |
| Sean Lynch | ... | Hoojah | |
| Keith Barron | ... | Dowsett | |
| Helen Gill | ... | Maisie | |
| Anthony Verner | ... | Gadsby | |
| Robert Gillespie | ... | Photographer | |
| Michael Crane | ... | Jubal | |
| Bobby Parr | ... | Sagoth Chief | |
| Andee Cromarty | ... | Girl Slave |
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Edgar Rice Burroughs' At the Earth's Core (UK) (complete title)
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89 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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Australia:M (TV rating) |
Australia:PG |
Finland:K-16 |
Iceland:12 |
Spain:T |
UK:A (original rating) |
UK:PG (video rating) (1987) |
USA:PG |
West Germany:12
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Actor/stuntman Bobby Parr lost a finger during a fight sequence with Doug McClure that went wrong.
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Dr. Abner Perry:
You cannot mesmerise me! I'm British!
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Edited into Fantastic Dinosaurs of the Movies (1990) (V)
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Edgar Rice Burroughs adaptation in which Doug McClure (who was in a couple of similar 1970's genre entries) and a hilariously daffy Peter Cushing play Victorian era scientists who burrow into the inner earth in a giant mechanical "mole" and encounter a primitive civilization that is terrorized by some ridiculous looking monsters.
This kind of reminded me of some of those old 'Spider-Man' (the 1967-1970 animated series) episodes where he'd go beneath the Earth or to remote locations and encounter a non-stop variety of truly wacky creatures. The creatures in this movie are so absurd that I got a lot of laughs out of them. I'm not sure if the film-makers intended this film to be so funny, but that's the way that it ends up. Yes, an adaptation of this story probably could have been better with a bigger budget and better production values, but at least if it's good for laughs - even unintentional ones, that counts for something.
McClure is merely passable, but Cushing was fun in his hammy performance, and Caroline Munro is as always an alluring bit of eye candy.
The sets, special effects, and photography fare a little better than the creature work - this film was moderately interesting to look at.
Overall, I kind of liked it basically because it *was* so darn silly. At least nobody in the cast seems to be taking themselves too seriously.
5/10