Unknown World

Unknown World is a 1951 independent, science fiction, adventure film, directed by Terry O. Morse and starring Bruce Kellogg, Marilyn Nash, Jim Bannon and Otto Waldis. Although it may have been inspired by Jules Verne's novel Journey to the Center of the Earth , the film was not based on the novel, nor "At the Earth's Core" by Edgar Rice Burroughs, which it just as much resembles. The film was also known as Night Without Stars and To the Center of the Earth. Dr. Jeremiah Morley is concerned about an imminent nuclear war. He organizes an expedition of scientists and has them use an... atomic-powered machine, capable of drilling through earth and stone, known as the Cyclotram, to find an underground environment where people could escape from nuclear obliteration. The expedition, consisting of Jim Bannon, Marilyn Nash, Otto Waldis, Tom Handley and Dick Cogan begins, after government funding has fallen through and they are bailed out at the last minute with private financing from a newspaper heir Bruce Kellogg, who insists on going with them as a lark.
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