At the Earth's Core (film)
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| Directed by | Kevin Connor |
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John Dark Max Rosenberg Milton Subotsky |
| Screenplay by | Milton Subotsky |
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At the Earth's Core 1922 novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| Starring |
Peter Cushing Doug McClure Caroline Munro |
| Music by | Mike Vickers |
| Cinematography | Alan Hume |
| Edited by | John Ireland Barry Peters |
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American International Pictures British Lion Films (UK) (Sony Pictures Entertainment) |
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89 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1.5 million |
At the Earth's Core is a 1976 fantasy-science fiction film produced by Britain's Amicus Productions.
It was directed by Kevin Connor and starred Doug McClure, Peter Cushing and Caroline Munro. It was filmed in Technicolor, and based on the fantasy novel At the Earth's Core, by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first book of his Pellucidar series, in token of which the film is also known as Edgar Rice Burroughs' At the Earth's Core. The original music score was composed by Mike Vickers.
Dr. Abner Perry (Peter Cushing), a British Victorian period scientist, and his US financier David Innes (Doug McClure) make a test run of their Iron Mole drilling machine in a Welsh mountain, but end up in a strange underground labyrinth ruled by a species of giant telepathic flying reptiles, the Mahars, and full of prehistoric monsters and cavemen.
They are captured by the Mahars, who keep primitive humans as their slaves through mind control. David falls for the beautiful slave girl Princess Dia (Caroline Munro) but when she is chosen as a sacrificial victim in the Mahar city, David and Perry must rally the surviving human slaves to rebel and not only save her but also win their freedom.
The film was made following the success of The Land That Time Forgot.
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