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...center of the earth. Fortunately, he is followed by a Hollywood producer (Charles Brackett) with wit enough to smile at some of the most preposterous pseudo-scientific poppycock ever published by Jules Verne. And so what might easily have been just one more merely colossal ($4,500,000) monster-movie comes off the reel as a grandly entertaining spoof of the boys' book as it was written before the comic strips took over-the sort of kids' picture that makes children gasp and parents grin...
There is a new monster at large in Germany today and its name is prosperity. That is the view of Gerd Gaiser, South German novelist, World War II flyer and sometime schoolmaster. His countrymen's real religion is materialism, he feels, and their real measure of success is possession. In this book, Novelist Gaiser tries to show that in such a society, good people can only be hurt, while the greedy are blissfully unaware of their own ugliness. Says one well-to-do mother to her well-padded daughter: "Ditta, one shouldn't breathe a word...
...Dead Sea, customers will float in glass-bottom boats and look down upon Sodom and Gomorrah. A dark journey through the thoracic cavity of Jonah's whale will end up in a wild slide down the monster's tongue. Camels will clunk along through Egypt's Valley of the Kings, taking clients to the pyramids. Donkeys will bear the weight of multitudes from Nazareth to Jerusalem...
...most of the first reel the spectator sees nothing but financial tentacles, as a vast holding company stealthily envelops a small plastics manufacturer (Dean Jagger) and prepares to devour him. Then all at once the head and center of the conspiracy appears, and lo! it is not really a monster after all. It's a tall, dark and handsome young fellow (James Garner, better known as TV's Bret Maverick) who is rich but honest, smart with a heart-a sort of beatified billionaire who suffers terribly because he "can't make anything but money...
...honor is smirched "just once," and this not so much for her own pleasure as to comfort the man she loves, who has been shattered by the death of his young son. What's more, the poor hero has been hounded all his life by a monster of a mother (Mildred Dunnock) who intends to keep her son if she has to kill him to do it (she hires the incompetent lawyer so she can run the defense as she sees fit). On top of everything else, the state's attorney (Sanford Meisner) proves to be the sort...