Adventure!

 

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ADVENTURE IN THE CENTER OF THE EARTH-1965-This made in Mexico adventure starts off with a family group taking a tour of some caves. A woman Julia (Carmen Molina) and her fiance sneak off for some hanky panky. They fall down a hole. Just when it seems like they will be rescued the man is killed by a monster but we only see its claw. It leaves a footprint that later gets Prof. Diaz (Jose Elias Moreno) very excited. He thinks it's a great discovery and wants to hear what the woman has to say. Unfortunately she's in shock. They try to get through to her but fail. The professor decides to check out the cave himself. He assembles a group to explore. Once they set up camp one of them croons a song. Later a female photographer is attacked by a one eyed creature. Still later a winged creature with fangs kills most of the party and kidnaps one woman. 

This low budget production, directed by Alfredo B. Crevenna (who earlier made a bunch of movies featuring Santo) is pretty entertaining.

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Sinbad

  

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THE SEVENTH VOYAGE OF SINBAD-1958-The famous sailor (Kerwin Matthews) and his crew wind up on a mysterious island also the home of the legendary Cyclops. During their encounter they meet magician Sokurah (Torin Thatcher) who has a magic lamp with a boy genie (Richard Eyer from THE INVISIBLE KID a year earlier) inside. They all escape but Sokurah loses his lamp. Also on board Sinbad's ship is his fiancee the princess of Chandra (Kathryn Grant). Her marriage to Sinbad will prevent a war with Baghdad. However Sokurah wants his lamp back. 

Sinbad refuses to return to the island. At a pre-wedding celebration Sokurah transforms the princess's lady in waiting into a snake woman and shrinks the princess and forces Sinbad and crew to return to Cyclops island for the lamp and also to get a shell from the egg of a giant bird the Roc. After killing the Cyclops Sinbad and his group encounter a dragon and a skeleton warrior. Another cyclops even shows up. All of it courtesy of the great Ray Harryhausen and his “Dynamation” stop motion process.

 Director Nathan Juran had worked with Harryhausen earlier on the classic 20 MILLION MILES TO EARTH and must have liked this assignment better than the low budget horror movie he made the same year (ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT WOMEN) as he used a pseudonym (Nathan Hertz) on that one!

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