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26 February 1988 (USA) moreTagline:
Venture to the core! morePlot:
A nerdish teenager goes looking for her missing archaeolist father, and stumbles into a strange underground civilization. full summary | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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80's fluff... more (30 total)Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Kathy Ireland | ... | Wanda Saknussemm | |
| William R. Moses | ... | Guten 'Gus' Edway | |
| Richard Haines | ... | Prof. Arnold Saknussemm | |
| Don Michael Paul | ... | Robbie | |
| Thom Mathews | ... | Charmin' | |
| Janet Du Plessis | ... | General Rykov / Shank / Claims Officer | |
| Simon Poland | ... | Consul Triton Crassus / The Mailman | |
| Linda Kerridge | ... | Roeyis Freki / Auntie Pearl | |
| Kristen Trucksess | ... | Stacy | |
| Lochner De Kock | ... | Professor Ovid Galba / Professor Paddy Mahoney | |
| Deep Roy | ... | Mambino | |
| Albert Maritz | ... | Mago / Maintenance Worker / Evangelist / Pack Slag Jack | |
| Russel Savadier | ... | Loki | |
| Denis Smith | ... | Anchorman | |
| James Lithgow | ... | Donaldson / Wrestling Announcer / Emcee |
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The last name for the main character is taken from Arne Sakneusemm, the Icelandic scientist who traveled to center of the earth in Jules Verne's "Journey to the Center of the Earth". moreGoofs:
Revealing mistakes: Kathy Ireland briefly loses her squeaky voice when she's doped up on the table. She laughs and says in a deeper voice (probably her real one), "You think I'm an alien?" moreSoundtrack:
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...the stuff that covered the shelves of local video stores in the old days. I love films like this, more for their value as time-pieces than for their artistic merits.
Kathy Ireland is a hoot (or is that "a squeak"?) playing off her "L.A. Gear" persona, but the sets and costumes really make the film. Imagine a pastiche of every 80's music video, and you've pretty much got the art direction for this film.
Wonderfully, watchably bad.. It's a shame that most people only got to see the cut MST3K version.