Wednesday, 26 February 2025

Battle Beneath The Earth (1967)

 

A diverting and quirky 60s sci-fi film with an unrealised ambitious concept


Directed by Montgomery Tully
Written by Charles F. Vetter
Produced by Charles Reynolds, Charles F. Vetter
Cinematography: Kenneth Talbot
Edited by Sidney Stone
Music by Ken Jones
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Running time: 91 minutes
Budget: £156,307


Cast

Kerwin Mathews as Cmdr. Jonathan Shaw
Viviane Ventura as Tila Yung
Robert Ayres as Adm. Felix Hillebrand
Peter Arne as Arnold Kramer
Al Mulock as Sgt. Marvin Mulberry
Martin Benson as Gen. Chan Lu
Peter Elliott as Dr. Kengh Lee
Earl Cameron as Sgt. Seth Hawkins
John Brandon as Maj. Frank Cannon
Ed Bishop as Lt. Cmdr. Vance Cassidy
Carl Jaffe as Dr. Galissi
Garrick Hobson as Professor Blackthorne
Sarah Brackett as Meg Webson
Bee Duffell as Matron's friend
Chela Matthison as nurse
Burnell Tucker as Jack Ambridge


Trailer


Advanced burrowing machines?
Tunnels dug from China to the United States?
Atomic bombs under major cities?
A dastardly plan to conquer the U.S.?
An expected war with a projected 100 million causalities?
All this kept secret for years!
But now at last
Someone who knows..
Someone who was there….
Will explain…..


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