Unknown World (1951)

★★★★ · Worth watching on several counts · phantomofkrankor · 2015-11-15

You have to hold this film up to the standards of very early 50s science fiction, which would be Rocketshp XM (also a Lippert production) and Destination Moon. This one already gets points for going the other way toward the center of the earth, and has both imagination (the "Cyclotram" is charming if absurd technology) and a different political bent (anti-war and anti-nuke, also like Rocketship XM in a way) than was acceptable then. It's different, fun, and memorable. Worth watching more than once.

★★ · Genius! Pure Genius! · Dr Feel Rotten · 2011-01-04

Were descending an extinct volcano RIGHT by an ACTIVE volcano! Let's just forget trying out abandoned mines that already have the infrastructure for getting there and they're saving all of humanity? The plan is to save THEMSELVES. Even IF they had been right the only portion of humanity they would have saved would have been themselves and the rest of humanity..well.. sorry folks.. we've been long extinct. This is just a dream you’re having by even so much as reading this. The REAL action is happening well within the earth with the expedition! Oh wait..they magically floated back to the…

★ · No....Just, no. · Vic Demise · 2011-01-04

More boring than watching C-SPAN on a slow day, as they discuss "HR162-B Amendment L" on House Sub-committee expenditures for the second fiscal quarter, and related allocations pertaining to National Park restroom paper toilet seat cover dispensers, and the requisite height at which they should be fixed to walls, including which gauge anchor bolts are to be used, based on average humidity in the off-season, not withstanding previous resolutions already passed concerning the diameter of washers in use since 1958 for said purpose... (More boring than that)