This superior adaptation is a colorful recounting of the Jules Verne adventure yarn. Along the way they find prehistoric beasts, a magnetic storm and the lost city of Atlantis. The professor and his compatriots descend into deep caverns filled with stalactites and stalagmites and encounter a tunnel system leading to the center. As the expedition to the center of the earth starts in a volcano located in Iceland. Meanwhile, they are chased by a mysterious scout, the Count Saknussemm (Alexander Scourby started shooting at Carlsbad Caverns, but the producers were unhappy with him and he was replaced with Thayer David) who has usurped a map for his own greedy purposes. An Edinburgh (in fact, many of the people in the crowd scenes were students of Edinburgh University) professor (James Mason who replaced an ailing Clifton Webb) and assorted colleagues as his pupil (Pat Boone), a woman looking for her husband who disappeared various years earlier during a voyage follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.
This is the classic adaptation (1959) by Henry Levin with great cast such as James Mason as Lindenbrook, Pat Boone, Diane Baker and Arlene Dahl as a wealthy widow.
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