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This used DVD was a good bargain. The only thing negative was some scratches on the case sleeve. I removed the label and inserted it into a new case. It now looks live a new DVD.
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A silly, child's SF effort with cheesy monsters and preposterous plot, but amusing in a brainless way. As always, the presence of Peter Cushing lifts the production to a higher level than its makers seem to have intended. Cushing completists will not want to miss this one.
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His John Dark-Kevin Connor fantasy adventures were a mainstay of Summer holiday movies in the days before Star Wars: they weren't masterpieces, they didn't boast state-of-the-art special effects, but they were exactly what an audience of kids wanted from a film back in the mid 70s. At the Earth's Core catches just the right tone for the appropriately named Burroughs' pulp adventure about Victorian inventor Peter Cushing and the inevitable Doug McClure ending up in the underground world of Pelucidar and battling its evil telepathic fighting dinosaurs. This time the puppets are gone in favour of men in monster suits, which is a lot more fun if you're willing to suspend your disbelief, and if you're not there's always Caroline Munro's cleavage to look at. Aside from what may well be Peter Cushing's worst performance, an irritating but dottier rehash of his movie Dr Who ("You can't mesmerise me, I'm British!"), it's easily the best of the John Dark-Kevin Connor-Doug McClure fantasy adventures, surprisingly well directed and boasting an atmospheric use of colour. Never especially good at exterior scenes, Alan Hume's photography gains immensely from the control a studio set gives him (the film was shot entirely on soundstages) to paint a luridly vivid world worthy of a pulp novel cover. Not high art but definitely great Saturday matinée fun.Read full review
I'm a fan of Burrough's Pellucidar series, and this film adaptation of the first book, "At the Earth's Core," is a delightful and obscure companion to the book. The film is especially campy, the monsters (which include something that can only be described as a cross between a T-Rex and a parrot) are ridiculously cheesy, and the plot is a laughably loose facsimile of Burrough's much more tame novel. But all this is what makes the film so enjoyable. At the Earth's Core has a certain charm about it; Victorian characters, a giant drilling machine, an untouched world full of prehistoric monsters, and a trippy musical score. What's not to love? Doug McClure is competent, Caroline Monroe is eye candy, and Peter Cushing is delightfully charming. This film is for people who love campy vintage sci-fi and a refreshingly non-mainstream film that dares to be creative on a low budget.Read full review
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