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1976 Certificate PG
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Scientist, Doctor Abner Perry, invents 'The Iron Mole', a device intended to pierce the Earth's core and explore the mysteries it beholds. However, disaster strikes and Perry finds himself on a journey to the centre of the earth! Read more

Starring Doug McClure, Peter Cushing, Peter Cushing, Caroline Munro
Director Kevin Connor
Genres Sci-Fi/Fantasy

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At The Earth's Core cover art

At The Earth's Core

Scientist, Doctor Abner Perry, invents 'The Iron Mole', a device intended to pierce the Earth's core and explore the mysteries it beholds. However, disaster strikes and Perry finds himself on a journey to the centre of the earth!

Starring Doug McClure, Peter Cushing, Peter Cushing, Caroline Munro
Director Kevin Connor
Studio CINEMA CLUB
Run time DVD: 1 hr 26 mins
Certificate Certificate PG
Genres Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Language DVD: English
Released DVD: 21 Mar 2005
Production year: 1976
Format DVD

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  • 2 stars out of 5

    Victorian explorer Doug McClure and fidgety scientist Peter Cushing encounter all manner of rubber monsters as they burrow through the earth with a giant boring device — no. not the film itself — to the subterranean kingdom of Pellucidar. This childish and chintzy adaptation of an Edgar Rice Burroughs novel would be an even bigger patience-tester if not for sultry heroine Caroline Munro and the truly awful man-in-suit special effects, which will inspire hoots of laughter rather than the intended sense of wonder.

    • Radio Times
    • Posted 29 Jan 2006

  • While 1974's The Land That Time Forgot discovered prehistory alive at the North Pole, here Messrs Cushing and McClure... read more on Time Out

    • Time Out
    • Posted 04 Nov 2008

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  • 3 out of 3 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 4 stars

    Enjoyable fantasy romp

    This was one of four films in which Doug McClure appeared in an action role in a fantasy/creature feature film in the '70s, of which three, including this one, was based on work by Edgar Rice Burroughs. As a lad I had read his Pellucidor series of tales, so I was aware of the story outline beforehand. This a fast paced romp, with some nice eye candy and not-too-effective matte scenes, but the pace of the film means that you do not have time to worry over cheapo effects. McClure produces a solid if not brilliant acting performance (I first saw him in a TV Western series called The Virginian - he acted the same there) and Peter Cushing hams it up in the manner he adopted when he played Dr Who in the dalek films of ten years previously. Monsters and grotesque creatures abound, but they are hardly up to the standard of contempory Harryhausen films and are laughable compared to modern CGI effects. If you've been brought up on modern films with digital sfx you probably won't like this film, but if you enjoyed films such as Sinbad or Jason and the Argonauts I think you'd like this, even if the sfx aren't up to Harryhausen's standards!

      • A customer from Birmingham, UK
      • Posted 07 Apr 2005 08:54

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  • Rated - 2 stars

    Spoilt Childhood!

    I remember watching this when I was a kid. For some reason I thought it was a really good film. How times have changed. Terrible acting. Not only from Doug McClure but even Peter Cushing is terrible. monsters are so, so fake. And theres no excuse with the special effects. Sinbad & Clash of the Titans was the same sort of year, and there effects were good. Dont waste your time with it. The land that time forgot is better.

      • A customer from Stockton-on-Tees
      • Posted 23 Jan 2009 17:47

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