Cebalord Very best movie i ever watch

Raetsonwe Redundant and unnecessary.

Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

mark.waltz Less of a science fiction tale and more like a serial type adventure, this slow moving but frequently campy adventure is a throwback to the types of films Universal made in the 1949's. A group of scientific explorers find an ancient artifact that fell off a mountain after an earthquake and set out to explore the uncharted region where no man has seemingly gone for centuries. They end up finding an ancient city which brings them close in contact with some strange dwellers of the underground. Lead by John Agar and Hugh Beaumont, this group undergoes many strange adventures which of course brings them into hidden dangers. There are many unintentionally funny moments, with constant references to Ishtar and comparisons of their scientific research to the biblical story of Noah's ark. I had to laugh at Agar's comment about crossing an avalanche prone mountain plateau as being safer than crossing Times Square. It gets to the point that you wonder if a reference to the cobra jewel will turn up. Finding the main city underground after visiting "the suburbs", Agar, Beaumont and Nestor Paiva have their work cut out for them with the dirt dwellers and British accented leaders who don't like the intrusion of the weird looking humans. If you can get past the dreadful opening with commentary by Professor Frank Baxter, you might enjoy the actual story. But he is a reminder why some science professors are among the most boring people ever born. I'll give them credit for getting a genuine chrome dome to prove that theory, because he certainly didn't prove his. This is sometimes campy, often ridiculous yet strangely enjoyable. It gets sillier with each scene change. I'd say that considering the era it came out in, it may have been considered a bit old fashioned, certainly a riot for the kiddie audience and mindless time passer for adults. One of the underground "humans" sounds oddly like Boris Karloff.

Uriah43 While digging somewhere in Asia a team of archaeologists uncover an ancient Sumerian tablet which warns of tragic consequences for those who take possession of it. Not long afterward they are presented with an ancient oil lamp recovered on top of a large mountain nearby with Sumerian engravings which tells the story of the "Great Flood" from the Sumerian point of view. Climbing up the mountain they discover an ancient Sumerian temple but it's at this time that the ground under one of the archaeologists named "Dr. Paul Stuart" (Phil Chambers) gives away which causes him to fall a great distance to his death. The archaeologists then use their mountain climbing gear to descend into the earth to find their fallen comrade. Unfortunately, a rock slide causes the death of another member of their team and subsequently traps them inside what appears to be a large cavern. After further investigation they are taken captive by some strange mole-like creatures and upon awakening meet an ancient Sumerian civilization whose king immediately sentences them to death. But they soon escape only to come face-to-face with some mole people who have been enslaved by these underground Sumerian people. Now, rather than reveal any more I will just say this movie had all the ingredients necessary for a Grade-B movie of this particular time. Although the acting was fairly adequate, the costumes were bad and the plot was just plain ridiculous. In short, unless a person really enjoys movies of this type or from this particular era I would avoid it all together. Below average.

Scarecrow-88 Silly B-movie has a kitchen sink plot and fun mole monster masks and gloves for the performers, with the highlight being fine matte painting work of the lost civilization village deep underground. Archaeologist John Agar (Tarantula) and his team (Hugh Beaumont (Leave it to Beaver), Nestor Paiva (Creature from the Black Lagoon), and Phil Chambers) discover Sumerian albino civilization who worship Ashtar and are tormented by light. They enslave creatures who work labor, offering them mushrooms and the whip in return. The women are also subservient, often whipped for clumsiness or not adhering completely to the men as expected. Cynthia Patrick is a beautiful blonde named Adad, considered particularly notorious for "having the mark" (she doesn't have their pale flesh or pain of light), Agar's love interest. Alan Napier, hardly recognizable, is the high priest who connives behind the people's selected king (Rodd Redwing) and wishes to destroy the intruders. Napier is entertaining as the scheming priest, just looking to seize total power over the people, looking at the intruders as his path to doing so. The mole people look campy in suits with bulging humps on their backs. There's an inexplicable opening from a Southern Cal English Professor positing theories from others of note regarding the earth's core which introduces the film. A flashlight is considered a power (light) of Ishtar which Agar uses to influence the people from attacking them! The ending is rather uncalled-for...why would Adad run around confused when an earthquake emerges, heading towards (!) where she just escaped from??? The reason of the studio for this-- interracial coupling is a no-no--says a lot about that point in time. The mole people being heroic was a nice change in the formula. Hard for the film to be taken too seriously but the earnestness of the participants makes this all the more a treat.

gavin6942 A party of archaeologists discovers the remnants of a mutant 5000 year old Sumerian civilization living beneath a glacier atop a mountain in Mesopotamia.The introduction from Frank Baxter is interesting for two reasons -- one, he is an English professor, and I do not really see how English fits in. But two, some of the theories he presents later cropped up as Nazi theories. I am not sure if any Nazis actually believed them, but the "hollow earth" idea is not unheard of, nor is the inside out earth.I like the whole concept of the Sumerians going underground, though I am a bit unclear how "mole people" developed. But in general, the concept is interesting and I liked the twist. This film should be more respected than it is. The writers clearly but some work into it, and the actors all took it seriously... even the lead, John Agar ("Tarantula").