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...Marvin stars in a science-fiction fantasy based on an H. G. Wells short story about a prospector who is swept by an avalanche into a hidden valley inhabited by a race of eyeless people. Color...
Whatever his mistakes, Director George More O'Ferrall can take credit, with Cameraman Jack Hildyard, for a powerful use of the camera to catch a mood. Hard and clear as the Syrian villain's eye, the frame takes in a stupefied huddle of tropical port: the tiny, eyeless box-buildings, the hot grey roads, the depraved palms, the dirty water that slides about the harbor. Beneath every scene is the sense of the black human jungle waiting to swallow all importance, and down upon everything blasts the terrible sun, like a pagan god who has come too near...
...lined with slimy rock walls out of which icy waterfalls pour over the passing spelunker. He spins sickeningly sometimes, at the end of a quarter-inch strand of cable, while his fellow spelunkers lower him slowly into the unknown. Below, he is often the sole inhabitant, except for eyeless white cockroaches and the like, of a world of stone, water and darkness. Claustrophobic terror can catch him, turn him hysterical. Finally, he has a couple of good chances of never seeing daylight again: a snapped cable or a landslide may leave him below forever. Why do they...
...been a tall man before he was bowed by his disgusting sickness, and even now he walked with a vigorous step. The dismal beating oj his bell, the pattering of the stick, the eyeless screen before his countenance, and the knowledge that he was not only doomed to death and suffering, but shut out forever from the touch of his fellowmen, filled the lads' bosoms with dismay; and at every step that brought him nearer, their courage and strength seemed to desert them...
...artificial eyes, the war has brought a special headache. The best glass for eyes was made by a German formula, and the U.S. supply of glass eyes is almost exhausted. Since glass eyes deteriorate after a few years, even if they are not broken, wearers feared they might be eyeless for the duration. Last week they heard good news...