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Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959) 7.0
An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center. Director:Henry Levin |
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Prof. Lindenbrook leads his intrepid party on an expedition to the centre of the earth, via a volcano in Iceland, encountering all manner of prehistoric monsters and life-threatening hazards on the way. Written by Mark Hockley <markh@centurione.com>
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A fabulous world below the worldParents Guide:
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Country:
USARelease Date:
29 January 1960 (West Germany) See more »Also Known As:
Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth See more »Filming Locations:
Carlsbad Caverns National Park - 3225 National Parks Highway, Carlsbad, New Mexico, USA See more »Company Credits
Production Co:
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Cooga Mooga, Joseph M. Schenck Enterprises See more »
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Sir Oliver Lindenbrook: Hotels rarely advertise the fact that there are corpses lying around.
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By Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen (as James Van Heusen)
Sung by Pat Boone
(cut from final print)
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Trivia
Count Saknussem says: "I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death." This is a variation of an Edgar Allan Poe quote: "Sleep, those little slices of death; Oh how I loathe them". See more »Goofs
When 'Atlantis' is discovered, Mason is heard delivering one line in a regular voice and the next in a voice with an echo without changing locations. See more »Quotes
Alec McKuen: [after discovering Professor Göteborg dead in his hotel room] Why didn't they tell us at the desk?Sir Oliver Lindenbrook: Hotels rarely advertise the fact that there are corpses lying around.
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Soundtracks
"Twice as Tall"By Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen (as James Van Heusen)
Sung by Pat Boone
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I can attest to the feelings expressed by the last couple commentators about 1959's "Journey To The Center Of The Earth." This is a wonderful family film from the bygone Eisenhower-era of the 1950s. Even though I've been watching it on TV since I was a kid in the sixties, I'd only seen pan&scan versions, and it wasn't until I got it letterboxed on laserdisc that I finally saw what a big-screen entertainment this movie was meant to be. It has wonderful scope and a score by Bernard Herrmann that takes you right down into the bowels of the earth. Listen to it and you'll notice what I mean, as the movie progresses the music keeps going into a lower and lower register. Five organs were used, including one meant for a Cathedral. (The complete original recordings of the score are available on CD from Varese Sarabande.) This movie also has the great James Mason in it, so you know it's got to be good. Sure it's long in the telling and takes a while to get you down that extinct volcano in Iceland, but it's fun all the way with great special effects work by L.B. Abbott and matte paintings by Emil Kosa Jr. The only way to watch this movie is in wide-screen and it's long past due that 20th Century Fox puts this out on DVD in a letterboxed anamorphic transfer. Let's hope that they do it soon.