Unknown World (1951) / (Mod)

Product Description

Living under the threat of an atomic holocaust, a group of scientists build the Cyclotram, a vehicle capable of drilling to the center of the earth. Dr. Jeremiah Morley and his team enter the earth... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Nostalgia Family Video, Inc
• Number of Disks: 1
• Weight: 0.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.5" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

I feel like I am going to live forever.

It is 1951; both of the great world wars are over; however, he knows it is just a short matter of time before someone will start another. Now, with the proliferation of the “H” bomb, which is a thousand times bigger than the “A” bomb, all of civilization and future civilizations will be destroyed. However, Dr. Jeremiah Morley (Victor Kilian) of the “Society to Save Civilization” has the answer. It is to burrow down into the underground caverns of the world and live there. Wait, but who is going to pay for this? Yep, along with the standard sci-fi set of doctors, scientists, and demolitionists, it is the playboy (Bruce Kellogg), son of a newspaper owner. Of course, one of the scientists must be female (Marilyn Nash). Everything is going swimmingly well until two of the crew are gassed and the water supply is contaminated. What will they do now? This film, original Screenplay by Millard Kaufman, has all the look and feel of the big bug sci-fi movies made in the fifties. There is the obligatory beginning geopolitical speech with a definition of an “H” bomb. The device for digging is called the Cylotram; it looks like one of those buster Crab Martian vehicles and acts similarly to the Atragon in the J-a-p-a-n-e-s-e movie “Kaitei Gunkan.” If it had monsters and ducks, it would be the precursor to James Mason in the movie “Journey to the Center of the Earth.” Surprisingly, many of the filming locations in “Unknown World” and Journey to the Center of the Earth” are both in Carlsbad Caverns National Park. Some scenes were on Pismo Beach, the home of the famous Pismo clam. One key feature of the movie that many joke about is all the platitudes and clichés. “I was afraid to die.” “And I was afraid to live.”