Edgar Rice Burroughs' At the Earth's Core

You have to give this film one thing, it managed to evoke something in me that no other film had before: I found Peter Cushing annoying. The experienced genre actor had already played so many roles of scientists and inventors that he probably thought how to spice things up this time with first-class goofing off. I would never have believed what a comfort would be the on-screen presence of Doug McClure, whose greatest acting asset otherwise is that he manages not to stare at Caroline Munro's cleavage. Otherwise, At the Earth's Core is classic sci-fi, with characters travelling to a colourful world where the inhabitants are suffering under the oppression of tyranny, only to be helped out of their fate. It’s something we’ve seen countless times, and here unfortunately, it’s not delivered in any interesting way. The money went to the sets and not to the script. (04/03/2023)