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"Discover the incredible world of tomorrow... 15 miles straight down at LATITUDE ZERO"

Jul 26 1969 G 1h 29m
Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

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.

Plot

An American photo-journalist accompanies two Japanese scientists in a bathysphere to study the Cromwell Current deep in the mid-Pacific Ocean. Suddenly, a volcano erupts at close hand. Shock waves from the vent tear the diving bell loose from its research ship. The three men are saved by a high-tech submarine, the Alpha. Unbelievably, its captain, Craig McKenzie, is more than 200 years old and the sub was launched in 1805. With the stranded research crew aboard, it heads for its home port in the underwater Utopian city, Latitude Zero. A rival 200-year-old scientist, Dr. Malic, sends his Black Shark sub after them. When he fails to destroy it before it reaches Latitude Zero's protective shell, he designs a plan to lure McKenzie out again. He captures Dr. Okada, a Japanese scientist bound for their Latitude Zero, to bait his trap. McKenzie must penetrate Malic's base on Blood Rock to free him and his daughter. Malic has a host of human/ animal hybrids waiting to greet the intruders.

Written by

Warren Lewis, Shin'ichi Sekizawa, Ted Sherdeman

Directed by

Ishirô Honda

Cast

Akira Takarada, Joseph Cotten, Cesar Romero

Crew

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Production Countries

United States of America, Japan

Production Companies

National General Pictures, Don Sharpe Enterprises, Ambassador Productions

Languages

English

Awards

N/A

Trailers
Latitude Zero (1969) Trailer - English Version
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# of Votes
1,100
Average Rating
5.9 out of 10
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