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heroine, with only ten minutes to run to safety after setting off an atom bomb, emerge in a volcano and stand looking at the glare of the nuclear explosion with not even a blink of their unshielded eyes. Delightfully nonsensical, the film is at least a variation on the usual SF themes, and very properly everyone acts with deadpan solemnity."
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wrote: "Schoolboy comic-strip capers, involving subterranean constructions, hydroponic farms ("enforced growth under solaric light" the Chinese scientist explains), laser beams, nuclear bombs and sinister Oriental villains. Nothing is quite so fanciful, though, as the finale, in which hero and
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Commander Jonathan Shaw, what he tells him lines up with observations Shaw has made himself. Shaw gets Kramer released and produces enough evidence to convince his superiors that the story is truel, and he is ordered to lead troops underground to defeat the red army and defuse the bombs.
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to the United States. In the expected war 100 million people are forecast to die. Kramer is committed to an asylum, but when he is visited by
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The U.S. Army detonates nuclear bombs in the tunnel in Hawaii. The detonations are reported to have stopped all activity in the tunnels.
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Chapman, J. (2022). The Money Behind the Screen: A History of British Film Finance, 1945-1985. Edinburgh University Press p 360
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wrote: "Schoolboy adventure material, this will pass with all but stuffy audiences. Reliable half of a double programme."
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headed by fanatic General Chan Lu are using advanced burrowing machines in an effort to conquer the U.S. by placing
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are called for a report that Dr. Kramer is prone on a sidewalk telling people he hears movement underneath.
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Scientist Arnold Kramer believes that rogue elements of the communist
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Saints & Avengers: British Adventure Series of the 1960s
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The film features a fast-paced "crime-jazz" / jazz-noir
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The film has been described as "deliriously paranoid".
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The bombs are in tunnels dug from China through the
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Montgomery Tully
Kerwin Mathews
Robert Ayres
Peter Arne
Al Mulock
Ken Jones
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
sci-fi
thriller film
Montgomery Tully
Kerwin Mathews
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Chinese Army
atomic bombs
Las Vegas police
Hawaiian islands
U.S. Navy
Kerwin Mathews
Viviane Ventura
Robert Ayres
Peter Arne
Al Mulock
Martin Benson
Earl Cameron
John Brandon
Ed Bishop
Carl Jaffe
Garrick Hobson
Sarah Brackett

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