Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)
The film follows a geologist (James Mason) and his assistant (Pat Boone) as they set off on an expedition trailing down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.
24 March 1906, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
December 10, 1924 in Warwickshire, England, UK
9 November 1914, Surrey, England, UK
1950, Worthing, Sussex, England, UK
11 August 1925, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
29 April 1896, Tacoma, Washington, USA
4 March 1927, Medford, Massachusetts, USA
26 February 1905, Chelsea, Massachusetts, USA
15 May 1909, Huddersfield, Yorkshire [now in Kirklees, West Yorkshire], England, UK
22 April 1934, Iceland
28 June 1891, Leon, Iowa, USA
5 May 1915, London, England, UK
January 02, 2011
A fanciful sci-fi tale for the whole family.
June 29, 2008
By standards of the time, the special effects of Hollywood's first (but not the only) version of Jules Verne's sci-fi classic were good and nominated for Oscars; they lost out to Ben-Hur, which swept all the awards.
October 03, 2016
It may well be second to KING KONG (1933) as the film I have seen the greatest number of times.
June 06, 2007
Still captivating despite the obviously dated effects.
October 11, 2012
Enjoyable hokum sci-fi tale that's based on an 1864 Jules Verne story.
March 25, 2006
It's really not very striking make-believe, when all is said and done.
May 22, 2012
Fun for the whole family, and—instead of the 2008 3-D version's Brendan Fraser—offers James freakin' Mason, who can pull off urbane and befuddled at the same time. [Blu-ray]
April 04, 2015
There's a rolling-boulder scene that almost certainly inspired Spielberg and Lucas when they initially dreamed up Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Peter Ronson's lovable lunk Hans seems like a live-action template of Frozen's Kristoff.
July 10, 2008
well paced film entertains
June 05, 2007
Mason is charming, caustic and debonair, and the whole affair is captivating, silly fun.
June 24, 2006
It's one of the very best Hollywood adventure movies, with lots of monsters, underground oceans, sinister villains, and touches which would have delighted Jules Verne himself.
June 23, 2008
Twentieth Century Fox pulled out all the stops - and the giant mushrooms - for this silly spectacle...
