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 enlarge | Director: Kevin Connor
Actors: Doug Mcclure, Peter Cushing, Caroline Munro, Cy Grant, Godfrey James
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Category: DVD
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Rating:  27 reviews
Sales Rank: 15140
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 90 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
ISBN: 0792851390
UPC: 027616868398
EAN: 9780792851394
ASIN: B00005O06Z
Theatrical Release Date: July 1976
Release Date: November 20, 2001
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 Entertaining and a classic. July 21, 2003
Luigi (NY United States)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
This movie starts good, but it get static, silly and stiff toward the mid-end of it. Overall: Fair to Good.
 Another classic! July 2, 2003
davezilla (Mesa, AZ United States)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
When I was a kid, Doug Maclure movies were a Sunday afternoon tradition. Giant rubber dinosaurs and paper mache monsters. Awesome!!! Still as much fun to watch today as they were 20 years ago.
 "Come on Doc.....it can't be much further!" April 27, 2003
Andrea L. Burcham (FPO, AP USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Despite some of the more negative reviews for this movie, I found it really enjoyable! Sure, the monster special effects technology is not comparable with Jurassic Park, but keep in mind that this movie was made in the 1970's! Doug McClure and Peter Cushing made a very good team in this action-packed adventure film! The movie starts out in the Victorian age as scientist; Dr. Abner Perry (Peter Cushing) and his Geologic Engineering student; David Innes (Doug McClure) are embarking on a mission to test a manned underground drilling machine called "The Iron Mole". When the "Iron mole" goes off-course, the teacher and student duo end up in a place "like nothing on Earth", as stated by David Innes.
David and Dr. Perry end up getting captured and enslaved with humans, by Sagaths, the soldiers for the Majars who rule in the city of Pellucidar.
After finding a way to escape from the caves of the Sagaths, David, aided by a new human friend; Rah, returns to free the slaves and rescue Dr. Perry. The human tribes unite and Dr. Perry trains the tribesman on the skills of Archery, in order to revolt against the Majars and Sagaths, and destroy them.
I loved the comradery between David and Dr. Perry, and the protective nature that David showed for the doctor when they were being roughly treated by the Sagaths and all through the movie. David even, helped physically hold the doctor upright, on the long trip into the caves as they were being pulled along on a long chain of human captives, saying "Come on doc,...it can't be much further". David is a real gentleman, and he also was very courageous and protective for the woman he fell in love with, Princess Dia. He even fought for her protection against ugly men who attempted to "man handle" her!
The movie was filled with humor that may have been unintentional, by the "air-headed" character of Dr. Perry, and the "serious natured character" of David Innes. The antics of Doug McClure and Peter Cushing in this film, for example, when they were being chased by a giant "eagle-looking" bird, after crash landing at the earth's core, was comparable to the antics of the "Three Stooges". I couldn't help but laugh! I enjoyed this movie so much, I watch it frequently! It seems that I pick up on things that I did not previously notice before, the more times that I watch it! A fun and entertaining movie overall! Andrea Lynn Burcham
What a guilty pleasure! March 22, 2003
Mr N Forbes-warren (Newport, South Wales, UK)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is one of those rubber-monster movies that is so clumsily made and filled with stupid movie physics so common to this genre, but I love it! Sorry, I can't help it, but watching this one, and more like it(also recommended: THE PEOPLE THAT TIME FORGOT and HUMANOIDS FROM THE DEEP for more laughfests!) is funnier than any so-called comedy these days! Peter Cushing is Dr Abner Perry, a mad Victorian scientist who invents the Iron Mole, a steam-powered drilling machine(?!) financed by David Innes, a token American played by Doug McClure, a mainstay of 1970s B-monster-flix. When they get lost drilling they wind up, quite literally, at the earth's core and encounter telepathic dinosaurs with lions' tails(honestly), rock bridges over lava flow which cavemen cross with bare feet, an exploding fire-breathing toad . . . and Caroline Munro is on hand as Princess Dia. Basically our heroes have to help the cavemen defeat the Majar beasts(telepathic dinos) and a race of apemen which resemble cast-offs who failed the auditions for Planet of The Apes!
Cushing absolutely revels in his role as Dr Perry. Throughout his movie career, he made all kinds of weird and wonderfully amusing horror flicks and even played the big-screen incarnation of Dr Who in two Brit productions. He knows it, and in this one he can't help but act tongue-in-cheek, which works and is fun to watch.
The SFX are truly Godzilla-style in execution. We get close-ups of men in rubber suits that make them look bigger, Majar creatures on wires(you can see them), exploding mushrooms, a killer plant made from paintbrushes and a pink lava sky! 'This cannot be the Rhondda Valley!' Mr Cushing exclaims. And later on, he asserts to the creatures: 'You cannot mesmerise me, I'm British!' Great stuff!
Oh, and Caroline Munro, who made a great Bond villainness in THE SPY WHO LOVED ME a year later, looks delicious in a loincloth bikini. So, overall, if you love this sort of thing to poke fun at, you can't go far wrong. I get a strange satisfaction out of watching bad movies at times, and this is one of my cheesiest entries in my list of 'guilty pleasure' flix. One could also say that it might have inspired THE CORE(2003), a forthcoming disaster epic with equally silly physics!
Another ERB movie brought down by fake monsters February 5, 2003
Lawrance M. Bernabo (The Zenith City, Duluth, Minnesota)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
"At the Earth's Core" is the middle of a trio of films based on novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs. This 1976 film comes from the Pellucidar series, while the other two were based on a pair of novels from a trilogy on "The Land That Time Forgot." This only sounds confusing, especially since all three films were directed by Kevin Connor and stared Doug McClure. Why they did not turn to ERB's John Carter of Mars series is beyond me, but the Pellucidar series, about a land at the earth's core (hence the title) was a decent series. Unfortunately, the film has as many failings as he does assets.The story starts with Victorian inventor Dr. Abner Perry (Peter Cushing) whose invention the "Iron Mole" has been bankrolled by American David Innes (McClure) to drill into the earth and open up all sorts of wonderful mining opportunities. Unfortunately the vehicle, with its rather lush intererior, has some problems turning and takes Perry and Innes down, down, to their apparent deaths. But then it breaks through into the land of Pellucidar, complete a lava sky for illumination (this is science fiction with the accent on the fiction, so be like Abner and David and go along for the ride). The performances are fine, although while you suspect that from Cushing it is rather surprising from McClure, but the actor was finding his niche in these films. Add to the equation Princess Dia played by Caroline Munro (she was Victoria Phibes in the Dr. Phibes movies and followed this film as a Bond girl in "The Spy Who Loved Me") and the human beings are fine. It is the cheesy monsters and special effects that drag this film down. Too bad because Burroughs had come up with this sentient race of psychic pterodactyls, the Meyhas, who enslave the humans of Pellucidar for food. Of course the bad dinosaurs capture our heroes who them have to free themselves and every other human being in Pellcuidar (and do it all in 89 minutes). If the Meyhas were not so awful then this film might be halfway decent, but it is not even a close call. ERB deserved beter. If you check out one of these films, then do "The Land That Time Forgot," because it is the best of the bunch.
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