X The Unknown (DVD)

I was quite tired on the first two occasions that I tried to watch this film and consequently fell asleep on the sofa. On the third attempt however I managed to make it to tne end....... Plot: Whilst on army manoeuvres in Scotland Private Lancing (Kenneth Cope) is killed after a fissure opens in the earth. Another soldier (Edwin Richfield) has radiation burns. Later, a small boy, Willie Harding (Michael Brook) runs, terrified, from the woods and is found to have first degree radiation burns. Then a doctor at a hospital is burnt to death and the radiation sources in the x-ray lab vanish. Atomic scientist Dr. Adam Royston (Dean Jagger) and ...  Read the complete review

The army is testing a new Geiger counter on a beach in Scotland, and this test reveals a previously unknown source of radiation, creating a series of explosions and a large fracture in the earth. Dr. Adam Royston, who works for the Atomic Energy Establishment at Lockmouth and is played by Dean Jagger, is called in to investigate, but unfortunately by the time he arrives the source of the radiation has vanished. However, Dr. Royston works out that an old dormant creature at the centre of the Earth has been reawakened, and this creature starts rampaging, only to be destroyed by a machine created by the good doctor. The film is quite similar in theme and ...  Read the complete review