At the Earth's Core is a 1976 science fiction film produced by Britain's Amicus Productions. It was directed by Kevin Connor and starred Peter Cushing, Caroline Munro, Philippa Herring and Doug McClure. It was filmed in Technicolor. It was based on the science fiction 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, a Victorian period scientist , and his American financier David Innes 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 , but when she is chosen as a sacrificial victim in the Mahar city, David must organize the humans to rebel and save her.
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| Release date: | July 1976 |
| Directed by: | Kevin Connor |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 89 Minutes |
| Producer: | Max Rosenberg, Milton Subotsky, John Dark |
| Music by: | Mike Vickers |
| Cinematography: | Alan Hume |
| Screenplay by: | Milton Subotsky |
| Adapted from: | At the Earth's Core |
| Genre: | Science Fiction, Fantasy, Adventure |