Journey to the Center of the Earth

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Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)

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An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.

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IMDb RATING

7.0/10

20K

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Nominated for 3 Oscars
- 4 nominations total

Kirsty
(uncredited)

Alan Caillou

Rector
(uncredited)

Gertrude the Duck

Gertrude
(uncredited)

John Epper

Groom
(uncredited)

Edith Evanson

Innkeeper
(uncredited)

Alex Finlayson

Prof. Bayle
(uncredited)

Molly Glessing

News Vendor
(uncredited)

Frederick Halliday

Chancellor
(uncredited)

Kendrick Huxham

Scots Newsman
(uncredited)

Owen McGiveney

Shopkeeper
(uncredited)

Director
- Henry Levin
Writers
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Trivia
Pat Boone didn't want to make this film, but his agent talked him into it. Years later, he said he's glad he did it because of the regular residual checks, and it's the movie he'll probably be best remembered for.

Goofs
(at around 21 mins) Early in the movie, Oliver Lindenbrook speaks of the "stars and galaxies of outer space." In the 1880s, however, our Milky Way galaxy was believed to constitute the entire universe. Knowledge that other galaxies exist beyond our own did not come about till the 1920s. Thus a man of the 1880s would not use the word "galaxy" in its plural form.

Quotes
Sir Oliver Lindenbrook: Are we to be abducted every day in Iceland?

Alternate versions
In some European versions of the film, for example the Spanish dubbing, the "Prof of Geology's Song" was re-dubbed into the "Gaudeamus Igitur" song.

Connections
Edited into Attack of the 50 Foot Monster Mania (1999)

Soundtracks
My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose
By Robert Burns
Set to music by Jimmy Van Heusen (as James Van Heusen)
Sung by Pat Boone

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Stunning from the beginning to the end

This movie is one of the best examples I can think of for how one can stun the audience just by making the right use of the essence of cinema: pictures. They vary between being threatening, funny, amazing, beautiful and bizarre but all are highly imaginative. In fact, this movie is one of the most imaginative ever made, imagination being a quality that has disappeared almost completely from Hollywood over the last 40 years. It drags you into the world of its superb settings just the way for example "King Kong" did in 1933. This is just the kind of movie cinema was meant for, up from the days of its beginning (see for example "Le Voyage Dans La Lune" by Georges Méliès, 1902). "Journey To The Center Of The Earth" is pure cinema at its best.