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Battle.beneath.the.Earth.(1967).MBCD2000-DVBRiP-XViD.avi
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US Navy commander Jonathan Shaw does his secretary a favour and goes to visit her brother, Dr Arnold Kramer, who has been incarcerated in an asylum, obsessed with `ants' and underground tunnels. But a series of disasters make Shaw think that Kramer may not be crazy after all. Soon he and his troops uncover evidence of a vast network of tunnels burrowed underneath the USA by Communist Chinese saboteurs.
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This is probably a film that was made ten years too late. It belongs in the heyday of McCarthyism along with other Communist hysteria films like Red Planet Mars (1952), Invasion USA (1952) and Rocket Attack USA (1958), not in the 1960s after the arrival of entente and the great East-West thawing. Peculiarly it is also a Communist hysteria film made in the UK, a country which had relatively low Communist paranoia anxieties as opposed to the USA. It is also nice to see the Chinese Communists getting some equal time as subjects of hysteria rather than the customarily featured Russian Communists (although the actors playing the Chinese are all Caucasian actors unconvincingly made up as Asians). There is certainly a rather alarming xenophobia to the film - the American soldiers without even thinking open fire the moment they see Chinese soldiers in the tunnels.
Director Tully adopts the documentary-like stolidity of most 1950s action films and it all comes with a heavy-handed didacticism. There is a crude, pedestrian vigour to the film - the same sort of crude excitement most 1950s war films operated on. But many scenes often come across as rather silly - one where Arne is brainwashed by a Chinese woman using a handheld fan, or the conceptually daft scene where the military organize the entire US to make no sound for thirty minutes so they can detect the noise of the underground operations. It is also often unwound by poor special effects - the laser is simply a spotlight beam and the explosions are double-exposed fireballs.
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