Battle Beneath the Earth
Date: 1967
Director: Montgomery Tully
Production Company: Reynolds-Vetter Productions Ltd.
Stars: Kerwin Mathews, Viviane Ventura, Robert Ayres, Peter Arne
Location(s): California, New York (USA), Hertfordshire, London
Region(s): London A-B, N. America, South East A-D
Storyline:
Rogue elements from across the Pacific use burrowing machines in an attempt to place atomic bombs under military bases and major cities in the USA.
Additional Information:
Screen captures by Phil Wilkinson
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A montage of stock footage sets the scene as two Policeman cruise the streets of Las Vegas before a radio message sends them to a “listening disturbance”.
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On a set at the studio in Borehamwood, passers-by begin to gather around Arnold Kramer (Peter Arne) as he puts his ear to the side-walk.
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After dispersing the crowd, the two Officers (Roy Pattison and Frank Lieberman) take Arnold into custody.
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Following the failure of his latest underwater project, Commander Shaw arrives at the Office of Naval Research in San Diego, California to meet with Admiral Felix Hillebrand. This is Stirling Way in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire.
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Commander Jonathan Shaw (Kerwin Mathews) parks his Ford Mustang and enters the building. Stirling Way running alongside Barnet By-Pass Road.
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After a meeting with the institutionalised Arnold Kramer, the Commander makes his way to Los Alamos Atomic Detection centre to discuss his old friend’s theory about a series of underground incidents with Lieutenant Commander Vance Cassidy. Not Los Alamos but Borehamwood where Anthony McKay found M-G-M Studio's electricity substation situated just east of the studio restaurant.
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At Placer Mines in Oregon, miners head for the surface after an unexplained mine collapse.
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The men leave the pithead.
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Commander Shaw makes his way to Placer to begin his investigation. Rowley Green Road in Barnet, London with Rowley Bank Farm at the corner of Rowley Lane in the left of centre distance.
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The shot pans with the Mustang to bring the entrance of Placer Mines into view. In reality, Arkley Water Tower on Rowley Green Road which was built in 1965.
This comparison by Andrew Hutchings shows that surrounding trees have grown quite a bit since the film was made!
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A Manager checks his watch after the decision is made to shut down every mine, airport and factory in every state at a predetermined hour. Looking at the shape of the background tanks, Anthony McKay believes that they are the fuel oil tanks at M-G-M British Studios in Borehamwood adding that "although for most of their life they were painted green they look grey on some occasions." The tanks also feature in 'High Flight'.
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The country falls silent at two o'clock. The clock tower at MGM Film Studios on Elstree Way in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire. The unlisted tower was demolished in 1987.
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A montage of stock shots begins with Kennedy International Airport in Queens, New York.
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Even the relatively quiet west of the country is silenced. Identified simultaneously by Manuel Gurtner and Chris Matheson, this is a still taken from the 1955 film ‘Bad Day at Black Rock’ and shows the specially built set next to the so called Lone Pine Branch of the Southern Pacific Railroad in California. Manuel adds that Mount Whitney on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada can be seen in the background.
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Sensitive equipment begins to detect a network of tunnels stretching across the USA as all activity ceases. A panorama of New York’s skyline includes the Pan-Am Building to the centre and the Chrysler Building on the right.