Journey to the Center of the Earth

19591959
GG
2h 9m

7.0/10

Adventure Family Fantasy

An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.

7.0/10

17K

Director
- Henry Levin
Writers
- Walter Reisch(screenplay)
- Charles Brackett(screenplay)
- Jules Verne(novel "Voyage au centre de la Terre")
Stars

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Nominated for 3 Oscars
- 1 win & 5 nominations total

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Journey To The Center of the Earth (1959)

Pat Boone and Peter Ronson in Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)

James Mason, Pat Boone, Arlene Dahl, and Peter Ronson in Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)

Pat Boone, Arlene Dahl, and Peter Ronson in Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)

Peter Ronson in Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)

Director
- Henry Levin
Writers
- Walter Reisch(screenplay)
- Charles Brackett(screenplay)
- Jules Verne(novel "Voyage au centre de la Terre")
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Edinburgh university professor Sir Oliver Lindenbrook believes he has found an very old message from a long lost scientist who may have found the way to journey to the center of the Earth. With his assistant, student Alec McKuen, he sets off for Iceland where an entrance in a volcanic range is to be found. They are soon joined by Carla Goetabaug, whose scientist-husband was recently murdered, and Icelander Hans Belker as they descend into the bowels of the Earth. There they will find fantastic creatures, exotic plants, the lost city of Atlantis and a foe who wants to keep knowledge of this underworld to himself. —garykmcd

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Taglines
- Based on Jules Verne's fantastic stories of strange adventure...
Genres
Certificate
- G
Parents guide

Trivia
James Mason reportedly had very little patience with Arlene Dahl's "movie star" preening. Their relationship off-screen was very much like their relationship on- screen.

Goofs
(at around 21 mins) Early in the movie, Oliver Lindenbrook speaks of the "stars and galaxies of outer space." In the 1880s, however, our Milky Way galaxy was believed to constitute the entire universe. Knowledge that other galaxies exist beyond our own did not come about till the 1920s. Thus a man of the 1880s would not use the word "galaxy" in its plural form.

Quotes
Sir Oliver Lindenbrook: Are we to be abducted every day in Iceland?

Alternate versions
In some European versions of the film, for example the Spanish dubbing, the "Prof of Geology's Song" was re-dubbed into the "Gaudeamus Igitur" song.

Connections
Edited into Attack of the 50 Foot Monster Mania (1999)

Soundtracks
My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose
By Robert Burns
Set to music by Jimmy Van Heusen (as James Van Heusen)
Sung by Pat Boone

Top review

Stunning from the beginning to the end

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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