At the Earth's Core
- PG
- Year:
- 1976
- 89 min
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Slowly does it,
Mr. Evans!
When I give
the word!
Now, are you
ready with your cork, sir?
A great
big smile! Beautiful!
Ready?
Oh, dear,
oh dear, oh...
oh, oh, oh...
this is awful.
Oh, David, take us with you.
Sorry, Maisie.
No passengers allowed.
Tell you what, Innes.
I'll bet you 50 guineas
my coach and four'll
beat you to the other side.
Good idea! While
you're galloping over the top
we'll be drilling
through the middle.
That'll do.
Stop there.
Thank you.
Doc?
Oh, David, my dear fellow,
I hope your faith
in me will be fully justified.
I just made a wager.
A little champagne to success?
Oh, yes,
I'll... I'll drink to that.
Oh, no.
I'd better not.
I'm at the controls
and you must keep
a clear head, too, David.
- Winterbottom...
- Mr. Innes, sir.
Dowsett, of the times.
- How do you do, sir?
- How do you do?
This is Dr. Abner Perry.
- How do you do?
- How do you do, sir?
Dr. Perry
was kind enough
to nominate me
as his worst student.
It took me longer to graduate
from geological engineering
than any other man alive.
Oh, but you had many
fine qualities, David.
But you were rather slow.
And that is rather surprising
because his father was so clever.
One of the best we ever had in,
uh, '58, I think it was.
Yes, yes, '58.
Dear old dad.
He should've
been here to see the mole.
Ah, that is what you call it?
The... the "iron mole"?
That's what I call it.
Dr. Perry here, calls it a high
calibration digging machine.
It'll bore through solid rock
at a rate of 78 feet per minute.
And this is
your design, Dr. Perry?
The finance has been provided
by Mr. Innes, I gather.
Oh, pardon me.
David, gyroscopes.
I know that today is just a
test-run through our Welsh hills...
- Good day. David, come along.
- Good day, sir.
But can you tell me, is it really
your intention to eventually explore
deep into the bowels of the earth?
Sir, we've been on top
of the earth long enough.
It's about time
we found out what's underneath.
Great crowd, huh, doc?
Concentrate, David.
Close doors.
Locks on.
All secure.
Ahh!
How are we?
Ready to go, doc?
Oh, yes!
Yes, my dear fellow.
I'll just check the gyroscopes.
Ahh!
Very nice.
Well, would you like
to move off, my boy?
Ready and willing, doc.
Good luck,
and happy landings.
Oh, dear.
Where is that smoke coming from?
Ah, yes. Well, you'd better
put that out until we're underway.
Procedure check.
Vision ports.
Opening vision ports.
Control.
Begin lift,
steady up to 10 degrees.
Check the inclinometer as we go, David.
Milford, get the horses ready,
otherwise I shall lose 50 guineas.
No cheating, Archie.
You can't start until they're off.
14,
- 15...
- Right. Hold at that and lock off.
- Locked off.
- Thank you, control.
Vision lights, aft.
Vision lights, forward.
Nose-cutters.
Right!
Bring in the crawler banks.
Firing engines, now.
Here we go.
10, 9, 8, 7...
...4, 3,
2, 1.
Release.
Up a little on the throttles, David.
I have her at 1800.
Oh! Back up, David!
Going in again.
Gripping now.
Cut in the tail pan.
Tail pan at 300.
Come on, girls. Off we go.
Come on, Milford.
Steady the throttles.
We're in.
Slow her down, David.
On the throttles.
Don't cut the engines.
Whew!
By gad!
That cannot be possible.
Quick. What does
the distance meter read?
Confounded contraption!
It should be 700 feet deep
by the time we get
it back to horizontal.
She's going too fast.
I can't change her course,
most extraordinary thing!
The mole is burning up inside, doc.
Can you... can you just
take over, David?
I must...
- Don't give up, sir
- I can't, I...
- Ah, oh, ah...
- Doc! Doc Perry!
- Ohh!
- Don't...
Perry!
Doc?
- Oh, Doc!
- Huh?
- Doc!
- Oh!
- You all right?
- Where wh-where was I?
It's c-c-c-old.
- The temperature...
- Hmmm?
Look at it.
I can't see a thing.
Oh!
Ice.
Ice. It can't be possible.
Fascinating. Just
make a note of the...
Oh!
Just make a note of
the temperature, will you?
She's going up!
A little more throttle, David.
Temperature's rising, doc.
We're on our way home.
Not quite.
We appear to be, uh,
in the middle
of a... an underground
lake at the moment.
Ohh!
Excellent!
Excellent!
Lifting nicely.
Knew she'd do it.
Lifting nicely?
Hold on, doc!
Hold on.
Ohh!
Total power failure?
Oh, how very disappointing.
It must've been the water.
I didn't allow
for that contingency.
Well, doc, shall we
see where we are?
Yes.
I'll, uh, just
get my umbrella.
The weather seems so changeable.
Ah!
Ah, where did I put it
amongst all this lot?
Ah! There it is.
Doc?
Doc!
Yes... yes. What?
Come here, quick.
Hey really, I really must check
the reason for that power failure.
I don't like being...
what an unbelievable sight.
Oop!
Steady, doc.
David!
This can't be the other
side of the hill, surely.
Unless it's
changed dramatically.
Well, where are we?
Look at this Mesozoic moss.
Or is it a cycad?
Yeah, I'm not sure, I...
I've only seen it
before in fossilized form.
a frond back with me.
That will be great, doc.
Just great.
Doc?
Oh, I say.
Steady, they may be stingers.
Onward, dear boy.
What an extraordinary sky.
What a strange color, doc.
This cannot be the Rhondda valley.
I've never seen anything like it.
Like nothing on earth.
David?
We are not on earth.
We're...
Well, if we're not on earth, doc,
then where the hell are we?
From my observations, dear friend, I
can positively state that we are under it.
Under?
At the earth's core.
By Jove!
How very interesting.
- Uh, d-doc...
- Mmm?
No, I-I don't think you
want to get too close to that.
Yes.
It is a somewhat aggressive
looking... creature.
David!
Oh, dear!
David, don't lose contact.
Doc!
Shoo! Shoo!
Oh!
Oh!
Oh, oh dear!
Oh!
- Ohh!
- No, doc. This way.
Oh, dear.
Oh!
- Here.
- Oh, dear.
Take care of
yourself, David.
- Oh!
- Hang on, doc.
David?
Hang on, doc.
Oh!
Ugh!
Take that!
Come on!
You ugly...
Oh, dear.
Oh, oh, I say!
I say, do be careful.
But we came in peace!
Ugh!
Oh, oh, David,
How good to see that you're safe.
Have you ever seen
anything like this before?
No.
Those prisoners look human.
Yes.
And they appear to be intellectually
superior to our captors.
I do find
that interesting.
They seem a pretty subhuman
species, yet the master race.
Isn't that always the way?
Yes, the power
of aggression, dear boy.
Brawn before brains.
No! Don't hit him!
I'll remember him, doc,
but they all look the same.
Yes.
Ugh!
David,
don't you think it's about time
we introduced ourselves
to our fellow sufferers?
Dr. Abner Perry
at your service, ma'am.
David.
Dia.
Dia?
You can call him Doc.
- Ghak.
- Oh, Ghak.
Oh!
Dia?
Who's that man up in front
who keeps looking at me?
He is Hoojah the sly one.
Do not trust him.
Perry?
Doesn't it ever
get dark here?
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Submitted on August 05, 2018
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