Journey to the Center of the Earth 1999

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Journey to the Center of the Earth ★★ 1999

Jules Verne's 1864 fantasy made its way to cable in this adventurous retelling. Geologist Theodore Lytton (Williams) is hired by wealthy Alice Hastings (Bergen) to find her husband, Casper (Brown), who disappeared seven years earlier during an expedition to a volcano in New Zealand. Lytton and his compatriots descend into deep caverns and discover a tunnel system leading to the planet's center and a new civilization that Hastings has usurped for his own greedy purposes. There's derring-do and even babes in animal-hide bikinis. 139m/C VHS, DVD . Treat Williams, Jeremy London, Tushka Bergen, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Bryan Brown, Sarah Chadwick, Petra Yared, Tessa Wells; D: George Miller; W: Thomas Baum; C: John Stokes; M: Bruce Rowland. CABLE

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