The Fabulous Journey To The Centre Of The Earth (1977) -
This film was shockingly dubbed and not particularly well acted either. I tend to struggle with Kenneth Moore anyway, but the rest were pretty damned terrible too.
Pep Munné In the role of Axel was a right pillock, although none of the rest were that bright either, except I suppose Ivonne Sentis was alright as the female lead Glauben, although that may have been due to her stronger character, because it's nice to see empowered women putting men in their places in earlier films and earlier time settings.
Olsen (Jack Taylor) was a strange one though. I didn't remember him having certain "abilities" from the other versions of this story that I've seen, but I might be wrong.
Kenneth in his role of Professor Otto Lindenbrock wasn't horrendous if I'm honest and Frank Braña did what was needed as Hans, but that really is me trying to find positives about the film as a whole.
Considering the money that was obviously spent on some of the special effects, there were other bits that were really bad, including the lighting and camera work.
A lot of the cave locations were very apt however. I was glad that they didn't spend the whole time in a drop clothed studio lot/set, because the genuine rock formations did add something to the production. It was a shame that they were the best bit.
I mean, I suppose that Jules Verne's story of exploration, as the whole group find their way around and have adventures under the Earth's crust, was at least a winner to start with and that was probably how I made it all the way to the end of this film, but I've seen 'The Simpson's' (1989) episodes with more thought spent on the delivery and I've definitely seen better versions of J. V's original story.
509.88/1000.
This film was shockingly dubbed and not particularly well acted either. I tend to struggle with Kenneth Moore anyway, but the rest were pretty damned terrible too.
Pep Munné In the role of Axel was a right pillock, although none of the rest were that bright either, except I suppose Ivonne Sentis was alright as the female lead Glauben, although that may have been due to her stronger character, because it's nice to see empowered women putting men in their places in earlier films and earlier time settings.
Olsen (Jack Taylor) was a strange one though. I didn't remember him having certain "abilities" from the other versions of this story that I've seen, but I might be wrong.
Kenneth in his role of Professor Otto Lindenbrock wasn't horrendous if I'm honest and Frank Braña did what was needed as Hans, but that really is me trying to find positives about the film as a whole.
Considering the money that was obviously spent on some of the special effects, there were other bits that were really bad, including the lighting and camera work.
A lot of the cave locations were very apt however. I was glad that they didn't spend the whole time in a drop clothed studio lot/set, because the genuine rock formations did add something to the production. It was a shame that they were the best bit.
I mean, I suppose that Jules Verne's story of exploration, as the whole group find their way around and have adventures under the Earth's crust, was at least a winner to start with and that was probably how I made it all the way to the end of this film, but I've seen 'The Simpson's' (1989) episodes with more thought spent on the delivery and I've definitely seen better versions of J. V's original story.
509.88/1000.