Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (20th Century-Fox) rates poorly in science fiction's Foam-Rubber Monster and Magnified Chameleon category; its only people eaters are a shamefully lethargic giant squid, an octopus and a shark. The film's score in the End of Civilization As We Know It division is hardly more impressive; the Van Allen radiation belt catches fire, and the earth's temperature rises to a toasty 173°. Voyage, however, does creditably in Wires, Dials and Doodads; there is an atomic submarine almost as gorgeous as a producer's Cadillac, with a control room like a Parisian pinball machine.
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