Irwin Allen recycles both props and actors from his TV shows,Voyage to the bottom of the Sea and Time Tunnel for this rather lame story. The dry for wet underwater miniatures are serviceable if not particularly believable. The art direction is pretty wacky for the city itself with lots of unrealistic clear plastic domes and cylinders around buildings that look like colourful lampshades. The most realistic shots are re-used shots of the flying sub from Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. The film opens with a very whimsically designed drilling rig exploding.
L.B. Abbott was lured out of retirement to consult on the miniature work.
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| The background structures on this set look like the Jupiter Two from Allen's Lost in Space TV show. |
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Wierdly there is a shot of a missile taking off with the footage reversed so its going down instead of up inserted here. This is way before the missile launch scenes or even any mention of missiles in the script.
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