At the Earth's Core ( Edgar Rice Burroughs' At the Earth's Core )

At the Earth's Core (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Edgar Rice Burroughs' At the Earth's Core
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
87 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1976 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Kevin Connor

Written By:
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Milton Subotsky

Actors:
Doug McClure ..... David Innes
Peter Cushing ..... Dr. Abner Perry
Caroline Munro ..... 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

Synopsis:

They're in it Deep now! Murderous monsters, scantily clad prehistoric playmates and telepathic pterodactyls inhabit the center of our world in this fantasy adventure about a manned 'drill-craft' boring its way to the center of the Earth! There's more than lava at the Earth's core. There's also Pellucidar: an underground empire where gargantuan pterodactyls torture and enslave all humanoids - including the lovely Dia (Munro). But all that could change when a surface-dwelling scientist (Cushing) and an American businessman (McClure) drive their powerful 'Iron Mole' straight into Pellucidar...stirring up a great deal more than dirt, rocks and lava!

This is the second sci-fi adventure based on a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first being 1975's The Land That Time Forgot. At The Earth's Core stars Doug McClure as explorer David Innes and Peter Cushing as professor Abner Perry, whose experimental 'iron core' drill goes out of control and leads them to the underground kingdom of Pellucidar, where the Wing People are ruled by the monstrous, flying Mahars. With the help of the professor, Innes leads the Wing People in revolt against their evil masters. Monsters and mayhem abound in what is essentially a well-produced, if somewhat juvenile, knockoff of The Time Machine.

A Victorian scientist and his young American backer set off in their new earth-boring machine with a short test on a Welsh mountain. Unfortunately the thing is rather more powerful than expected and they end up in an enormous cavern at the centre of the earth. Here they find a race of humans enslaved to evil oversized prehistoric birds with extra-sensory abilities. The travelers decide they can be some help, the more so as at least one of the slaves is very eye-catching.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 19 May, 2011.