hwgrayson Review of The Underwater City

The Underwater City (1962)

"Guess where we're going to spend our honeymoon?"

[5/10 · 10 February 2024]

The rise and fall of an underwater city. There are things I liked about this movie. The model work, particularly the city sinking into the abyss at the conclusion. The different uses that might be made of the subsea city are interesting, as a base for refuelling submarines, as a refuge in the event of an atomic war or as a centre for harvesting the food and the mineral wealth of the oceans It also has the beauteous Julie Adams as Dr. Monica Powers who is most watchable. Ronald Stein's music score is also fine. On the negative side unfortunately there is an ongoing voiceover stating the obvious all the time and the main character engineer Bob Gage is played by William Lundigan and he is rather boring. Not awful but not exciting until the city collapses.