Word: subterranean
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...magnetic force. A race against time to kill off the element is accomplished by jet plane. The whole thing is up-to-the-minute and quasi-scientifically hair-raising. Best sequence: a flickering, high-voltage climax as the menacing element is smashed to smithereens in a gigantic, subterranean deltatron...
...mute Lon Chancy as his doorman and Boris Karloff acting as his house physician. When dashing Sir Richard Burton (Richard Greene) arrives at the black castle, he is i) attacked by a black leopard during a hunting party, 2) almost immersed in an alligator pit, 3) thrown into a subterranean torture chamber, 4) prepared for burial alive. The Black Castle tries hard to chill the moviegoer's spine. Most of the time, however, this boy-meets-ghoul melodrama is only tepid theatrics...
...southern veteran of the Civil War who went to prison in 1867 for aiding guerilla raiders to escape capture. Hadley, played by Sterling Hayden, served time in Hellgate Military Prison near Copper City, New Mexico. The Hellgate of the movies, called America's Devil's Island, includes a subterranean series of barred caves, a tender hearted commandant, a sadistic sergeant, and enough tortures to send chills along the spine of Charles Addams...
Admiral Earl Mountbatten, commander in chief of the British Mediterranean Fleet, took time off at Naples, adjusted his undersea fishing gear, dived into the Gulf of Salerno for a little subterranean exploration...
...They explored the even deeper caverns that sloped away from the shaft. They threw yellow-green dye into a rushing underground river to test their theory that this was the same river which surged out of the ground three miles away. (It was.) They looked for new forms of subterranean life, such as the cockroaches they found last year, almost white and without eyes. Last week, after four days underground, Loubens telephoned that he was coming...