I really don't care if this film is scientific nonsense. I really don't care if Pat Boone bursts into song to give the teens of the time a thrill. I don't even care that as they are being born upwards on that altar disk during a volcano eruption, Arlene Dahl's hair remains perfectly in place! This film is just so much fun none of the rest matters. I loved it as a kid and as an adult, I still love it. Now that I am older, I can truly appreciate the fact that the two romantic leads are middle aged, something that was rarely done back then and how wonderful to see a "mature" woman like Dahl being sexy as all getout. I loved it when she and James Mason get together in the end. As for the special effects, so what if the dinosaurs are hokey? All dinosaurs were hokey in the fifties. The filming in the caverns was great and who downs't love Gertrude and her owner? It was terrible when Gertrude got eaten. It justified the bad guy's death. I mean, he could kill a man, but a duck is an entirely different matter!
Review of Journey to the Center of the Earth
