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Latitude Zero (1969)

Directed by Ishirō Honda

Adventure | Fantasy | Science Fiction

Overview

A massive underwater volcano erupts and puts a group of investigative scientists in danger. They are rescued by an atomic super submarine named The Alpha under the command of Captain McKenzie. The group is quickly taken to a vast underwater city known as Latitude Zero, a fantastic, Atlantean type utopia, a world beneath the ocean with its own sun. It is soon discovered that Captain McKenzie is at war with the evil Dr. Malic, a cruel scientist who wishes to rule mankind all the while conducting genetic experiments on humans and animals. Malic sends his agents to kidnap Dr. Okada, a human scientist who has created a serum that can immunize exposure to radiation.

Rated G | Length 105 minutes

Actors

Joseph Cotten | Cesar Romero | Akira Takarada | Masumi Okada | Richard Jaeckel | Patricia Medina | Mari Nakayama | Akihiko Hirata | Tetsu Nakamura | Hikaru Kuroki | Hitoshi Omae | Linda Haynes | Susumu Kurobe | Haruo Nakajima | Yû Sekita | Teruo Aragaki | Haruyoshi Nakamura | Susumu Utsumi | Seiji Onaka | Osman Yusuf | Wataru Ômae | Burr Middleton

Viewing History (seen 4 times)

Viewing Notes

Love it! Been wanting to see this for a while esp. since I’ve been reading more about Ishiro Honda and Eiji Tsuburaya lately. It’s really the ideal movie for me, a Sunday afternoon film I would warm up to as a child. It has the adventure and fantasy with great miniatures and setpieces.

I suppose the only criticism would be how damn silly the vampire men and flying lion look. Seriously. They look like they were pulled from a high school stage play. Really weird to see mixed with the detail of the sets and models used. It’s almost like they skimped on purpose.

Despite that, Latitude Zero is loaded with a great cast including Cesar Romero and Joseph Cotton among Akira Takarada, Richard Jaeckel and Masumi Okada. I would watch this film every year it’s so damn enjoyable.

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