Crack in the World (1965)

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This was always on tv when I was young but now seems only to surface as a crummy VHS rip.
A pity because this lavish, big(ish) budget sf yarn is good fun.
Colourful and fast paced with impressive (mostly) fx, it really doesn't deserve such obscurity.
A well-meaning but misguided scientist (Dana Andrews) decides to tap the Earth's molten magma by firing a nuclear warhead down a borehole and blowing a hole in the last bit of rock holding the magma back. Needless to say, things don't go quite as planned and a crack opens in the crust which threatens to split the planet in two.
Fortunately Kieron Moore and Janette Scott are on hand to sort things out with all the hi-tech 1965 can provide. Moore gets to play Doc Savage, Scott gets to throw a world-class wobbler in a collapsing lift shaft and the solar system gets somewhat rearranged. :cool:
The science may be outdated/bonkers but the movie is right up there with other batty masterpieces like "Fantastic Voyage", "The Day the Earth Caught Fire" and "Quatermass"

"Stop! You're heading for the crack!":eek:
 
I also remember this film I have it on DVD but its not all that good quality its like a CAM.

Would love to have a much better quality version to.
Its a really good film but the only people who seem to know about this movie are the people on IMDB as its not very well-known.
 
It's been a good few years since I've seen this (BBC1 screening, ? early 00's - think it was in 16:9), but I remember having higher hopes for it than were ultimately fulfilled. I mainly remember a lot of big-chunky-button devices on very stagebound sets, with a lot of those explanatory signs above things, typical of 60's adventure/esponiage movies utilising the inchoate vogue for high technology.
 
I remember the movie poster making a big deal of the train/bridge incident which is, ironically, the weakest bit in the whole movie, given the sub-ThunderbirRAB model work.
Watching it again today, I was amazed by how much I remembered; I don't think I've seen it since I left school, over 30 years ago. :)
 
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