Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Movie Review

Before he capsized the Poseidon and lit the Towering Inferno, Irwin Allen, the master of disaster, made his very best film. Take the plunge with the intrepid crew of the Seaview, an experimental atomic submarine that is put to the ultimate test when the Earth is endangered by a burning radiation belt. Walter Pid-geon stars as Admiral Harriman Nelson, whom the crew comes to doubt his sanity when he wants to launch a missile into the belt. On board are Peter Lorre as a trustworthy marine biologist, Joan Fontaine as a not-so-trustworthy scientist, Michael Ansara as a religious fanatic who believes the blazing sky is God's will. We dream of a fetchingly uniformed Barbara “Jeannie” Eden dancing on the mess hall tabletops. Frankie Avalon is also on board to sing the title tune. Much better than the TV series that ran this movie's good name aground.

1961 106m/C Walter Pidgeon, Joan Fontaine, Barbara Eden, Peter Lorre, Robert Sterling, Michael Ansara, Frankie Avalon; D: Irwin Allen; W: Irwin Allen, Charles Bennett; C: Winton C. Hoch. VHS, Beta, LV FOX, FCT