Starring: John Agar, Hugh Beaumont, Cynthia Patrick
Been a few weeks, but welcome back! This week, we're watching a film that sounds lame but might turn out to be a good one.
PLOT: Drs. Roger Bentley (John Aar) and Jud Bellamin (Hugh Beaumont) are archaeologists in Asia. They happen upon a tablet in Sumerian and the Sumerian version of Noah's ark. They climb a mountain to where they were found and find the ruins of a Sumerian temple.
At the end of a cave, they discover an underground city. While they're asleep, creatures throw bags on their heads and drag them even further underground. Once there, they discover skeletons with large hands and skulls. They are escorted to a temple where a ruler holds up the Eye of Ishtar. After escaping the people by flashing light at them, the men find their way to another underground chamber where humanoid mole men are being used as slaves by this civilization.
Suspicions on the part of the civilization rise when the men help the mole men and save them from being beaten. The men eat drugged mushrooms and are captured. In the end, the men escape with the girl (Cynthia Patrick), who dies. Bittersweet ending.
REVIEW: From the start, this film was an interesting bit of history. The title seems lame, but the concept was intriguing and interesting. 7.5/10 stars.
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