Blu-ray Review Crack in the World (Special Edition) – Blu-ray Review (1 Viewer)

[t1g3r5fan]

Today Crack in the World. Beginning his career in the 1920’s as a film editor, Andrew Marton made his directorial debut in 1929 with the film Two O’Clock in the Morning. Arriving in Hollywood following the outbreak of WWII, Marton notably co-directed King Solomon’s Mines (1950) and The Longest Day (1962) while also serving as a second unit director on several pictures; his most notable film in that role was Ben-Hur (1959), where he directed the film’s famed chariot race sequence. One of his most interesting films as a solo director was the science fiction thriller Crack in the World. Previously released on DVD and Blu-ray by Olive Films, Kino has licensed the movie from Paramount Pictures for its return to Blu-ray in time for its 60th anniversary.



Crack in the World (1965)



Released: 15 Apr 1965
Rated: Approved
Runtime: 96 min...

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[Robert Crawford]

This is on sale at Amazon for $14.99.

 

[Wayne Klein]

It’s a fun but kind of dumb (as to the science)movie. It has as much to do with science as The Core. Still entertaining.

 

[cinefan]

Too much love triangulatin', not enough world crackin'. Still, a fun genre picture of the period.

That was my (overly-glib) Letterboxd review from 2021 when I watched my 2011 Olive blu-ray for the first time. I do remember my impatience with how much time was spent on the love triangle; I was flashing back to 10-year-old me watching similar films and being disappointed with the "filler" in between the promised thrills. Or all the stuff in between the Marx Brothers scenes in their later MGM pictures.