Watched one of my favorite Saturday Matinee movies (i.e., movies I used to watch as a kid on Saturday afternoons on Channel 13 back in California): Crack in the World (1965).

The cover says it all:

THAN GOD IT'S ONLY A MOTION PICTURE!

Science miscalculates ... underground Atom Bomb explodes earth's core ... and the world totters on the brink of destruction!

Today's Terrifying Look into What Might Happen Tomorrow!

I mean, who could ask for anything more? We got:

• Volcanoes!

• Stampedes!

• Atomic weapons!

• Duelling scientists!

• More volcanoes!

• The UN!

• Earthquakes!

• Love triangles!

• Veldt! Atolls! The Ocean! The Land!

• Train wrecks!

• Mass destruction!

• People gathering in St Peter's Square praying for a miracle!

• Lava! Lots and lots of lava! Magma, too!

• Massive elaborate sets!

• Still more volcanoes!

• Destruction of massive elaborate sets!

• Lots of pyrotechnics!

• Lots of stock footage!

• Cute animals!

• Apocalyptic devastation on a planet-shattering scale!

They just don't make moves like this any more 00 which is kind of a shame (though it has some of ther fans like me). Great fun, and bring the popcorn.Picked up a copy (not ... exactly ... issued by the copyright holder) on eBay, and don't regret it in the least.

Filed under :: Media - Movies

Quoth Fred Kiesche ...

Gawd! That was one of my very favorite cheese-laden SF movies of my youth. Must get a DVD version!

Quoth ***Dave ...

It appears to be a perennial favorite for bootleg copies on eBay. Caveat emptor.

I dreamt last night that I had a copy of it on DVD.

Weird.