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Overview
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Director:
Writers:
Edgar Rice Burroughs (novel)
Milton Subotsky (writer)
Release Date:
July 1976 (USA) more
Tagline:
They're in it DEEP now! more
Plot:
A Victorian scientist and his young American backer set off in their new earth-boring machine with a short test on a Welsh mountain... more | add synopsis
Awards:
1 nomination more
User Comments:
Edgar Rice Burroughs was never like this. more (51 total)
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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Runtime:
89 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
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. more
Quotes:
Dr. Abner Perry: You cannot mesmerise me! I'm British! more
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Edited into Fantastic Dinosaurs of the Movies (1990) (V) more
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This film begins with a wonderful piece of music and an excellently tense and edge-of-seat sequence in which Victorian scientists (played by Doug McClure and Peter Cushing) drill into the depths of the earth in their 'Iron Mole'. You truly believe you're going to see a great film to rival 'The Land That Time Forgot'. But then the two companions arrive in the underground world and encounter their first monster, which is quite obviously a man in an outfit which looks like a dinosaur with a parrot's face. From here it's downhill all the way as the intrepid scientists encounter ovens with tentacles on strings, fire-breathing critters with clearly visible flame-thrower nozzles and pterodactyl-people who, when they fall down, explode for no apparent reason. It's a shame the special-effects are so awful, as the storyline is quite interesting with some good situations and the music is excellently atmospheric. But what we have here is a good script let down by poor execution. All I can say in this film's favor is it's watchably bad. But I'd have been a lot happier if it was watchably good.