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A Crack in the World

posted 20 years ago by windsong-1
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I happen to think that the movie"A Crack in the World" was very entertaining and ahead of its time. The acting was of high caliber and very believable. Some moviemakers today can learn a thing or two from this movie or maybe they have but won't admit it.
This movie is worth printing on dvd on a wide screen format and with todays technology,
they can take a 'monural' sound and make it into a multi-trac experience.
So whoever is in charge of printing movies on dvds, please make 'A Crack in the World' a priority.

Thanks

[–] mark_shleck-1 20 years ago

I second that.

You can't hold a candle to Gulbenkian.

[–] billgbg 20 years ago

I was totally amazed by this film as a ten year old. Obviously now, the ending is an Adam and Eve reference. Doesn't a huge chunk of Earth hurl upwards to become another moon at the end? Sheeesh, I'd call that ambititious for a movie starring Dana Andrews!
And they used much stock footage of volcanoes mixed in with new sets and miniatures. Today it would likely be thought of as a B picture, but looky: the new pictures for this decade are about similar subjects of weather problems, meteor collisions, and tornados. Where's my milk duds, you steal em?

[–] braunkane 20 years ago

I saw this flick when I was seven years old, and I never forgot it. This film presaged all the disaster flicks of the seventies. I particularly recall one scene where a bunch of refugees in India crowded a train, only for that train to go off a cliff. The scene of Ted Rampian explaining his "Rampian Theory" was brilliant.

[–] billgbg 20 years ago

Absoloutely. It was an incredible acheivement for a lower budget film of the time.

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[–] billgbg 19 years ago

Other missing in action films from the Saturday afternoons in Boomerville theaters:

Mr. Moses (Robert Mitchum becomes king of an African tribe...I think. I need to see it again)

Sands of the Kalihari (Stewart Whitman and gang of cheapie English actors suffer plane crash after locusts down their aircraft. What happens after that I don't know. Haven't seen it in 40 years.)

Fate is the Hunter (really scary airline crash at the film's start launches a look back at the pilot. Many of the tech guys worked on Star Trek later)

Hot Rods to Hell (Has "Crack in the World" actor Dana Andrews fighting an un-winnable battle against Roger Corman-type motorcycle gang. Actually he just mistrusts anyone with long hair--like many people did then.)

Atlantis, the lost Continent (was 1961, but the local theater just sneaked it one Saturday afternoon in 1965--it's George Pal, so you've got quality right there, and Paul Frees' great, stupendous, wonderful voice narrating it.)

The 25th Hour (Anthony Quinn having an adventure in WW-2 prison camps. I remember he just suffers a lot without any redemption, hardly a "Guns of Navaronne", but the film just disappeared. It wasn't on TV. I never saw frame #1 of it ever again.)

Way Way Out (a Jerry Lewis movie that never resurfaced anywhere. It has Jerry and Dennis Weaver on a moon base I think. The film has really sexy girls, just think of the Matt Helm series as a reference. The local video shop has it for loan, but they don't advertise it. They act like it's some secret thing.)

[–] USS_Ranger_Vet 18 years ago

This is one of my favorites, too. Would love to see it properly released. I'm sure Paramount will do so.

Yes, it was one of the earliest disaster films. But, don't forget "When World's Collide" from 1951. Another great disaster movie with an "Adam & Eve" type ending - several Adams and Eves, actually.

[–] jckruize 17 years ago

Paramount, get cracking!

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[–] NOaklief 17 years ago

believable? is this some kind of sick joke?