- Film Review
- Reviewed By Alan Jones
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3 out of 5
Tenuously based on Edgar Allan Poe, with Jules Verne being the main uncredited inspiration, this fanciful mix of comedy adventure and submarine suspense was director Jacques Tourneur's final feature (Poe regular Roger Corman turned it down). Vincent Price enjoyably camps it up as the immortal underwater leader of a Cornish contingent of smugglers-turned-gill-men, and the whole subterranean soufflé is highly watchable even if, sadly, it does slide from the poetic to the pathetic in the second half.
Plot Summary
Science-fiction adventure starring Vincent Price. A coastal town is terrorised by gill-men when the ruler of an undersea kingdom orders the kidnapping of a woman who looks like his dead wife.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Captain, Sir Hugh Tregathion
- Vincent Price
- Harold Tiffin-Jones
- David Tomlinson
- Ben Harris
- Tab Hunter
- Jill Tregellis
- Susan Hart
- Rev Jonathan Ives
- John Le Mesurier
- Mumford
- Henry Oscar
- Dan
- Derek Newark
- Simon
- Roy Patrick
Crew
- Director
- Jacques Tourneur
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