A number of critics have likened Journey to the Center of the Earth to a Disney theme park ride, and they're right. But when you take this ride with your children, it can be a lot of fun.
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)
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Reviews Counted:18
Fresh:6
Rotten:12
Average Rating:2.8/10
Consensus: A silly but fun movie with everything you'd want from a sci-fi blockbuster -- heroic characters, menacing villains, monsters, big sets and special effects.
Runtime: 2 hrs 10 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Synopsis: JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH is based on Jules Verne's 1864 novel. A scientist heads out on a treacherous journey to the center of the earth. With him are an intrepid student, an Icelandic... JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH is based on Jules Verne's 1864 novel. A scientist heads out on a treacherous journey to the center of the earth. With him are an intrepid student, an Icelandic guide and the widow of a geologist who steals his information in an attempt to beat him to the earth's core. Along the way the group are confronted by all manner of dangerous obstacles: excessive heat and cold, gale force winds, and tremendous floods. [More]
Starring: Pat Boone, James Mason, Arlene Dahl, Diane Baker
Starring: Pat Boone, James Mason, Arlene Dahl, Diane Baker, Thayer David, Peter Ronson, Robert Adler
Director: Henry Levin, Stuart Gilmore
Director: Henry Levin
Story: Jules Verne
Screenwriter: Charles Brackett
Producer: Charles Brackett
Director: Stuart Gilmore
Composer: Bernard Herrmann
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Reviews for Journey to the Center of the Earth
Fox's impressive DVD edition gives us ... a fully restored anamorphic 2.35:1 image created from a new negative.... Herrmann's lauded score receives gold-standard treatment all the way down to its quake-inducing subterranean registers.
...the most outstanding feature of the movie is its remarkably evocative musical score, composed by Bernard Herrmann.
Latest News for Journey to the Center of the Earth
April 24, 2006:
Fraser Journeying to the Center of the Earth
"The Mummy" star Brendan Fraser will star (for Walden Media and New Line Cinema) in a rather new-fangled rendition of the oft-lensed Jules Verne story "Journey to... More...
November 17, 2005:
New Line & Walden Team Up for an All-New "Earth" Expedition"
Variety reports that New Line Cinema and Walden Media will partner up for an all-new and new-fangled rendition of Jules Verne's "Journey to the Center of the Earth,"... More...
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