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Latitude Zero
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1969 film by Ishirō Honda
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5.9A 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.
Cast
- Joseph Cotten as Capt. Craig McKenzie / Cmdr. Glenn McKenzie
- Cesar Romero as Dr. Malic / Lt. Hastings
- Akira Takarada as Dr. Ken Tashiro
- Masumi Okada as Dr. Jules Masson
- Richard Jaeckel as Perry Lawton
- Patricia Medina as Lucretia
Themes
- submarine
- mad scientist
- rivalry
- underwater
- underwater city
- human becoming an animal
- underwater volcano eruption
- tokusatsu
- coproduction
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- science fiction film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- Japanese
- Main subject
- mad scientist
- Director
- Ishirō Honda
- Screenwriter
- Warren Lewis
- Cast member
- Susumu Kurobe
- Composer
- Akira Ifukube
- Producer
- Tomoyuki Tanaka
- Production company
- Toho
- Duration
- 108
- FilmAffinity ID
- 576195
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- publication date
- 1969-07-26
- title
- Latitude Zero
- distributed by
- Netflix
- capital cost
- 360000000
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