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This is the classic Journey to the centre of the Earth starring James Mason, Pat Boone, Arlene Dahl and Diane Baker from 1959. It was digitally remastered for dvd and now it has been remastered in full 1080p HD and it looks lovely as ever.. the colours and sound are excellent! It's an australian blu ray release but it region B.. but since it hasn't been released over here in tbe uk it is worth buying
The story begins in May 1863, the Lidenbrock house in Hamburg, with Professor Lidenbrock rushing home to peruse his latest purchase, an original runic manuscript of an Icelandic saga written by Snorri Sturluson ("Heimskringla"; the chronicle of the Norwegian kings who ruled over Iceland). While looking through the book, Lidenbrock and his nephew Axel find a coded note written in runic script. (This is a first indication of Verne's love for cryptology. Coded, cryptic or incomplete messages as a plot device will continue to appear in many of his works and in each case Verne goes a long way to explain not only the code used but also the mechanisms used to retrieve the original text.) Lidenbrock and Axel transliterate the runic characters into Latin letters, revealing a message written in a seemingly bizarre code. Lidenbrock attempts a decipherment, deducing the message to be a kind of transposition cipher; but his results are as meaningless as the original.Read full review
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