Journey To The Centre Of The Earth

Journey to the Center of the Earth (also called Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth) is a 1959 American science fiction adventure film in color by De Luxe, distributed by 20th Century Fox. The film, produced by Charles Brackett and directed by Henry Levin, stars James Mason, Pat Boone, and Arlene Dahl. Bernard Herrmann wrote the film score, and the film's storyline was adapted by Charles Brackett from the 1864 novel of the same name by Jules Verne.
In 1880 Edinburgh, Professor Sir Oliver Lindenbrook, a geologist at the University of Edinburgh, is given a piece of volcanic rock by his admiring student, Alec McEwan. Finding the rock unusually heavy, Lindenbrook discovers a plumb bob inside bearing a cryptic inscription. Lindenbrook and Alec discover that it was left by a scientist named Arne Saknussemm, who, almost 300 years earlier, had found a passage to the center of the Earth by descending into the volcano Snæfellsjökull, in western Iceland. After translating the message, Lindenbrook immediately sets off with Alec to follow in the Icelandic pioneer's footsteps.
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== Links to Peel ==
In his Disc & Music Echo column of September 11, 1971, Peel mentions visiting the home of John Walters and his wife Helen to watch the Saturday night film, which on this occasion was Journey To The Centre Of The Earth. BBC Genome's listing shows that it was broadcast on Saturday 4th September, 1971 at 6.20 p.m.. 
Peel described how they watched "James Mason and others journeying to the centre of the earth. Pat Boone with a Scottish accent is one of thise things that no-one should miss...." - but apart from that, the film doesn't seem to have made much of an impression on him, as in his column he goes on to talk about Pat Boone's singing career and the song "When The Swallows Come Back To Capistrano" ("It's an oddish song, I think") which he was surprised to find in a cover version on Michael Hurley's new LP Armchair Boogie.
== External Links ==
* Wikipedia
* IMDb
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