Journey to the Centre of the Earth

Original title: Journey to the Center of the Earth

1959
U
2h 9m

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7.0/10

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Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1959)

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Adventure Family Fantasy Romance Sci-Fi

An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.

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IMDb RATING

7.0/10

20K

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Nominated for 3 Oscars
- 4 nominations total

Kirsty
(uncredited)

Alan Caillou

Rector
(uncredited)

Gertrude the Duck

Gertrude
(uncredited)

John Epper

Groom
(uncredited)

Edith Evanson

Innkeeper
(uncredited)

Alex Finlayson

Prof. Bayle
(uncredited)

Molly Glessing

News Vendor
(uncredited)

Frederick Halliday

Chancellor
(uncredited)

Kendrick Huxham

Scots Newsman
(uncredited)

Owen McGiveney

Shopkeeper
(uncredited)

Director
- Henry Levin
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Trivia
James Mason reportedly had very little patience with Arlene Dahl's "movie star" preening. Their relationship off-screen was very much like their relationship on- screen.

Goofs
(at around 21 mins) Early in the movie, Oliver Lindenbrook speaks of the "stars and galaxies of outer space." In the 1880s, however, our Milky Way galaxy was believed to constitute the entire universe. Knowledge that other galaxies exist beyond our own did not come about till the 1920s. Thus a man of the 1880s would not use the word "galaxy" in its plural form.

Quotes
Sir Oliver Lindenbrook: Are we to be abducted every day in Iceland?

Alternate versions
In some European versions of the film, for example the Spanish dubbing, the "Prof of Geology's Song" was re-dubbed into the "Gaudeamus Igitur" song.

Connections
Edited into Attack of the 50 Foot Monster Mania (1999)

Soundtracks
My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose
By Robert Burns
Set to music by Jimmy Van Heusen (as James Van Heusen)
Sung by Pat Boone

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7/10

Best Film Version To Date

While this film suffers from some annoying "cuteness" and has lizards parading as dinosaurs, it is nonetheless the best film version of the novel because Verne's themes of exploration and discovery remain. Bernard Herrmann's score is indeed fantastic and this film has a wonderful pace. The cast here is also very talented and the film is so well made one can forgive it its minor flaws.