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Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959) -- An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.

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Director:
Henry Levin
Writers:
Jules Verne (novel)
Walter Reisch (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
29 January 1960 (West Germany) more
Tagline:
A fabulous world below the world
Plot:
An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 1 win more
User Comments:
Stunning from the beginning to the end more

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth
Trip to the Center of the Earth
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Runtime:
132 min
Country:
USA
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
4-Track Stereo (Westrex Recording System) | Dolby SR (re-issue)
Company:
Cooga Mooga more

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Fox gave the green light to this big-budget CinemaScope production partially on the basis of the success of the recent Jules Verne adaptations, Walt Disney's 20000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) and Michael Todd's Around the World in Eighty Days (1956). As with those earlier films, the heavy cost proved to be a good investment, resulting in a big hit at the box office. more
Goofs:
Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): After the explorers are washed ashore, the Count eats Hans's duck, Gertude. When Hans approaches him with murderous intent, the Count addresses him in English, pleading for his life, despite allegedly being native Icelandic by birth and knowing by experience that Hans only understands Icelandic. more
Quotes:
Sir Oliver Lindenbrook: Young man with the gold tooth, I'll give you more gold if you guide us to Reykjavik.
Hans Belker: [in Icelandic] Ahh, yes, yes, yes, Reykjavik.
Sir Oliver Lindenbrook: You... take us... to Reykjavik.
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Referenced in The Descent (2005) more
Soundtrack:
Twice as Tall more

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28 out of 34 people found the following comment useful:-
Stunning from the beginning to the end, 20 January 2001
Author: Tobias Landes from Munich, Germany

This movie is one of the best examples I can think of for how one can stun the audience just by making the right use of the essence of cinema: pictures. They vary between being threatening, funny, amazing, beautiful and bizarre but all are highly imaginative. In fact, this movie is one of the most imaginative ever made, imagination being a quality that has disappeared almost completely from Hollywood over the last 40 years. It drags you into the world of its superb settings just the way for example "King Kong" did in 1933. This is just the kind of movie cinema was meant for, up from the days of its beginning (see for example "Le Voyage Dans La Lune" by Georges Méliès, 1902). "Journey To The Center Of The Earth" is pure cinema at its best.

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