At the Earth's Core (film)

At the Earth's Core

Directed by Kevin Connor
Produced by John Dark
Max Rosenberg
Milton Subotsky
Screenplay by Milton Subotsky
Based on At the Earth's Core
1922 novel
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Starring Peter Cushing
Doug McClure
Caroline Munro
Music by Mike Vickers
Cinematography Alan Hume
Edited by John Ireland
Barry Peters
Production
company
Distributed by American International Pictures
British Lion Films (UK)
(Sony Pictures Entertainment)
Release dates
  • 1 September 1976 (1976-09-01)
Running time
89 minutes
Country United Kingdom
United States[1]
Language English
Budget $1.5 million[2]

At the Earth's Core is a 1976 fantasy-science fiction film produced by Britain's Amicus Productions.[3]

It was directed by Kevin Connor and starred Doug McClure, Peter Cushing and Caroline Munro.[4] It was filmed in Technicolor, and based on the fantasy novel At the Earth's Core, by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first book of his Pellucidar series, in token of which the film is also known as Edgar Rice Burroughs' At the Earth's Core. The original music score was composed by Mike Vickers.

Plot

Dr. Abner Perry (Peter Cushing), a British Victorian period scientist, and his US financier David Innes (Doug McClure) make a test run of their Iron Mole drilling machine in a Welsh mountain, but end up in a strange underground labyrinth ruled by a species of giant telepathic flying reptiles, the Mahars, and full of prehistoric monsters and cavemen.

They are captured by the Mahars, who keep primitive humans as their slaves through mind control. David falls for the beautiful slave girl Princess Dia (Caroline Munro) but when she is chosen as a sacrificial victim in the Mahar city, David and Perry must rally the surviving human slaves to rebel and not only save her but also win their freedom.

Cast

Production

The film was made following the success of The Land That Time Forgot.[5]

Reception

The movie was popular, becoming the 18th most profitable British film of 1976.[5]

See also

References

  1. "At the Earth's Core". American Film Institute. Retrieved 31 December 2015.
  2. Brian Trenchard-Smith on At the Earth's Core at Trailers from Hell
  3. Gary A. Smith, The American International Pictures Video Guide, McFarland 2009 p 16
  4. "At the Earth's Core (1976)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 31 May 2012.
  5. 1 2 Ed. Allan Bryce, Amicus: The Studio That Dripped Blood, Stray Cat Publishing, 2000 p 150

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