At the Earth's Core

At the Earth's Core (1976)

4,000 miles to the center of the Earth to a world within a world

A huge burrowing machine tunnels out of control at ferocious speed, cutting clean through to the center of the earth, to the twilight world of pellucidar. Once there, Dr. Perry and David Innes are threatened by half human creatures, lizard-like birds, and man-eating plants.

Date of release
1976-07-01
TMDB
5.1 / 10 (171)
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Adventure, Fantasy, Science Fiction
Director
Kevin Connor

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: At the Earth's Core
  • Filmed in: Pinewood Studios

At the Earth's Core is a 1976 fantasy-science fiction film produced by Britain's Amicus Productions. A British-American co-production, the film was directed by Kevin Connor and stars Doug McClure, Peter Cushing and Caroline Munro. It was filmed in Technicolor, and is based on the 1914 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.

Production

The film was made following the success of The Land That Time Forgot, using the same star, producer, director and writer. Director Kevin Connor said, "The script wasn’t the greatest but it had some fun sequences in it. Cushing and McClure were a delight as usual and enjoyed working with each other."

Filming took place at Pinewood Studios in London. Kevin Connor recalled we devised a colour scheme for Pellucidar which was a mauve-orange backdrop. Most of the film was on one huge stage... and therefore the colour was very controllable."

According to Connor, "we tried to get the beasts bigger so as to interact better with the actors – more one on one. We had a somewhat bigger budget thanks to the success of Land. The beasts were specially designed so that small stunt guys could work inside the suits in a crouched position and on all-fours. Needless to say it was very cramped and the stunt guys had to take frequent breathers.

Connor added, "We had a lot of fire in that; we did have some small explosions on the set. We had those bubbling eggs blowing up in the bottom of the cauldron that covered the sound-stage floors in this goo."

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