Crack in the World
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| Directed by | Andrew Marton |
| Produced by | Bernard Glasser Lester A. Sansom |
| Written by | Jon Manchip White Julian Zimet |
| Starring | Dana Andrews Janette Scott Kieron Moore Alexander Knox |
| Music by | Johnny Douglas |
| Cinematography | Manuel Berenguer |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
| Release date(s) | May 12, 1965 (U.S. release) |
| Running time | 96 min. |
| Language | English |
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Crack in the World is an American disaster movie filmed in Spain in 1965.
Project Inner Space, an international consortium of scientists, are trying to tap into the Earth's geothermal energy by drilling a very deep hole through the Earth's crust into the mantle below. They are foiled by an extremely dense layer of material at the boundary between the two. To penetrate the barrier and reach the magma below, they intend to detonate an atomic device at the bottom of the hole.
The Project's chief geologist, however, is convinced that the lower layers of the crust have been weakened by decades of underground nuclear tests. The detonation, he fears, could produce a massive crack that would threaten the very existence of Earth.
[edit] Scientific Accuracy
The film was released only a few years before the theory of plate tectonics became mainstream, and later commonly-accepted fact. As it turned out that the surface of the planet was heavily cracked already, the scenario presented in the film is now considered highly improbable.
