![]() ![]() (The complete original recordings of the score are available on CD from Varese Sarabande.) This movie also has the great James Mason in it, so you know it's got to be good. Five organs were used, including one meant for a Cathedral. ![]() Listen to it and you'll notice what I mean, as the movie progresses the music keeps going into a lower and lower register. It has wonderful scope and a score by Bernard Herrmann that takes you right down into the bowels of the earth. Even though I've been watching it on TV since I was a kid in the sixties, I'd only seen pan&scan versions, and it wasn't until I got it letterboxed on laserdisc that I finally saw what a big-screen entertainment this movie was meant to be. I can attest to the feelings expressed by the last couple commentators about 1959's "Journey To The Center Of The Earth." This is a wonderful family film from the bygone Eisenhower-era of the 1950s. ![]()
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