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The Core
Why this pick
Like Crack in the World, it treats a planetary interior crisis as urgent spectacle, following scientists attempting an extreme, technically improbable intervention to avert global catastrophe.
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MOVIE1965 1h 36m USA
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Why this pick
This similarly grave British disaster film pairs nuclear-triggered planetary danger with an unusually sober, human-scale view of the scientists, officials, and public facing an irreversible threat.
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Gorath
Why this pick
Its measured scientific teamwork and world-endangering celestial event echo the serious, collaborative problem-solving spirit beneath Crack in the World's large-scale destruction.
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Dante's Peak
Why this pick
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The Deadly Mantis
Why this pick
Its Cold War-era scientific procedural tone, expeditionary settings, and matter-of-fact faith in experts make it a fitting companion to Crack in the World's vintage disaster sensibility.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
An international consortium of scientists, operating as Project Inner Space in Tanganyika, Africa, is trying to tap into the Earth's Geothermal power energy by drilling a very deep hole down to the Earth's Core. The scientists are foiled by an extremely dense layer of material. To penetrate the barrier and reach the magma below, they intend to detonate an Nuclear weapon at the bottom of the hole.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Dana Andrews
Dr. Stephen Sorenson
Kieron Moore
Dr. Ted Rampion
Alexander Knox
Sir Charles Eggerston
Peter Damon
John Masefield
Gary Lasdun
Markov
Mike Steen
Steele
Sydna Scott
Angela
Todd Martin
Simpson