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The film follows a geologist (James Mason) and his assistant (Pat Boone) as they set off on an expedition trailing down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.
It's really not very striking make-believe, when all is said and done.
March 25, 2006
LarsenOnFilm
Twentieth Century Fox pulled out all the stops - and the giant mushrooms - for this silly spectacle...
June 23, 2008
Groucho Reviews
Fun for the whole family, and—instead of the 2008 3-D version's Brendan Fraser—offers James freakin' Mason, who can pull off urbane and befuddled at the same time. [Blu-ray]
By standards of the time, the special effects of Hollywood's first (but not the only) version of Jules Verne's sci-fi classic were good and nominated for Oscars; they lost out to Ben-Hur, which swept all the awards.
There's a rolling-boulder scene that almost certainly inspired Spielberg and Lucas when they initially dreamed up Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Peter Ronson's lovable lunk Hans seems like a live-action template of Frozen's Kristoff.
It's one of the very best Hollywood adventure movies, with lots of monsters, underground oceans, sinister villains, and touches which would have delighted Jules Verne himself.