Starring Bruce Kellogg, Otto Waldis, Jim Bannon, Tom Handley, Dick Cogan
Directed by Terrell O. Morse
(actor & director credits courtesy IMDB.com)
A group of scientists fearing the H-bomb may mean the end of everything plan a journey underground to find a place where humanity could continue to exist.
Jack Rabin and Irving Block, who would go on to develop the special effects for numerous 1950's sci-fi films, also produced this effort earlier in the decade, and though the effects are nothing special, the story is a worthy one with a good screenplay that holds your interest. Tension between the scientists and their financial backer is effectively staged, and Ernest Gold's music score helps propel the film along through some dreary patches. Filmed in Carlsbad Caverns, which provided the setting for many movies of this type, its scenery is not as spectacularly presented here as in later efforts, but this picture is still a good low-budget adventure.
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