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    Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961)

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    With the earth threatened by a blazing radiation belt and the global temperature rising by two degrees each day, the inventor of a new nuclear submarine – Admiral Harriman Nelson (Walter Pidgeon) – must make a difficult decision if the world is to be saved.

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    Accounting for $400,000 of the picture’s budget, the glass-fronted nuclear submarine Seaview went on to star in its own TV series following its exploits here, as it fires its Polaris missiles into the Van Allen radiation belt and saves the earth from a meltdown.

    The Commander of the sub, Captain Lee Crane (Robert Sterling) is moved to doubt the admiral’s sanity after a series of sabotage attempts and is about to clap him in irons when the saboteur is unmasked.

    The goal is achieved, the sky turns from red to blue and everyone goes home happy as the mercury drops back to normal.

    Joan Fontaine is totally out of her depth (no pun intended) as Dr Susan Hiller, but Peter Lorre and the rest of the supporting cast – including teen favourites Frankie Avalon and Barbara Eden – are splendid.

    Co-writer/producer/director Irwin Allen went on to become the king of the disaster movie in the early 1970s, as the creative force behind such films as The Poseidon Adventure (1972) and The Towering Inferno (1974).

    Admiral Harriman Nelson
    Walter Pidgeon
    Dr Susan Hiller
    Joan Fontaine
    Cathy Connors
    Barbara Eden
    Commodore Lucius Emery
    Peter Lorre
    Capt Lee Crane
    Robert Sterling
    Miguel Alvarez
    Michael Ansara
    Chip Romano
    Frankie Avalon
    Dr Jamieson
    Regis Toomey
    Admiral Crawford
    John Litel
    Congressman Parker
    Howard McNear
    Dr Zucco
    Henry Daniell

    Director
    Irwin Allen

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