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City Under the Sea (1965)
Country of Origin: UK
Year of Production: 1965
Running Times: 85 mins
Format: Pathécolor 35mm
Colorscope
Ratio: 2.35:1
Sound: mono
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Companies: AIP/Bruton Film Productions
Executive Producers: Samuel Z. Arkoff, George Willoughby
Producer: Daniel
Haller
SCRIPT
Script: Charles Bennett, Louis M. Heyward, David Whitaker (uncredited)
Poem: The City In the Sea by Edgar Allan Poe
DIRECTION
Director: Jacques Tourneur
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Stephen Dade
Underwater Photographers: Neil Gemmell, John Lane
Lab: Pathé Laboratory, USA
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Gordon Hales
MUSIC
Music: Stanley Black
SOUND
Sound: C. Le Mesurier, Ken Rawkins
COSTUMES AND MAKE-UP
Make Up: W.T. Partleton, Geoff Rodway
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Les Bowie, Frank
George
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Frank White
LOCATIONS
Locations: Cornwall coast, Cornwall, England, UK; London, England, UK
Studio: Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
CAST
Vincent Price
(The Captain)
Tab Hunter (Ben Harris)
Susan Hart (Jill Tregillis)
David Tomlinson (Harold Tiffin-Jones)
John Le Mesurier (Ives)
Henry Oscar (Mumford)
Derek Newark (Dan)
Roy Patrick (Simon)
Anthony Selby (George)
Michael Heyland (Bill)
Steven Brooke (Ted)
William Hurndell (Tom)
Jim Spearman (Jack)
Dennis Blake (Harry)
Arthur Hewlett (1st fisherman)
Hilda Campbell-Russell (2nd woman guest)
Bart Allison (1st male guest)
George Ricarde (2nd male guest)
Herbert the Rooster (himself)
PLOT SUMMARY
In 1903, a group of people on the Cornish coast discover a society
of immortal underwater smugglers living in a lost sunken city. They
regularly send raiding parties of mutant gill-men to the coast in search
of supplies.
AVAILABILITY
USA
Theatrical Distributors: AIP
DVD Distributors: MGM Home Entertainment
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Argentina
Rating: 13
Australia
Rating: PG
USA
Rating: unrated
TIMELINE
1965
May
26: USA – theatrical release
1967
September
13: Denmark – theatrical release
1969
April
29: Portugal – theatrical release
2002
December
14: Argentina – shown at the Los mundos de sombras de Jacques
Tourneur
POSTER TAGS
A fantastic journey to a lost empire one thousand fathoms beneath the
sea!
They dared the most fantastic journey that has ever challenged imagination!
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
20.000 leghe sotto la Terra - Italian title
A Cidade Submarina - Portugese title
City in the Sea - US title
La ciudad bajo el mar - Venezuelan title
Merenalainen kaupunki - Finnish title
Piratbyen under havet - Danish title
Stadt im Meer - West German title
Die Stadt unter dem Meer - West German title
War-Gods of the Deep - US title
LINKS
INCLUDES FOOTAGE FROM
Kaitei gunkan (1963)
FOOTAGE INCLUDED IN
Space Probe Taurus (1965)
SEE ALSO
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)
Vincent Price: The Sinister Image (1988)
REFERENCES
MAGAZINES
Radio Times 26 November - 2 December 1988 pp.31, 79
review, credits
BOOKS
Hoffman's Guide to SF, Fantasy and Horror Movies 1991 - 1992
p.73
credits, review
KEYWORDS
crossbows, mutants, smugglers, underwater, volcanoes
Last Updated:
1 January, 2009
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