![]() ![]() But I'd have been a lot happier if it was watchably good. A Victorian era scientist and his assistant take a test run in their Iron Mole drilling machine and end up in a strange underground labyrinth ruled by a species of giant telepathic bird and full of prehistoric monsters and cavemen. All I can say in this film's favor is it's watchably bad. ![]() But what we have here is a good script let down by poor execution. 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. 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. Two sequels were written after his death, and At the Earth’s Core was adapted into a movie in 1974. 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. ERB sold enough copies of At the Earth’s Core (originally serialized) to write six more Pellucidar books (including one featuring Tarzan). You truly believe you're going to see a great film to rival 'The Land That Time Forgot'. 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'. ![]()
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