Night Without Stars (1951) | |
| Director(s) | Terry O. Morse |
| Producer(s) | Robert L. Lippert (executive uncredited) |
| Top Genres | Romance, Science Fiction |
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Night Without Stars (1951) was a Romance - Science Fiction Film directed by Terry O. Morse and produced by Robert L. Lippert.
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Andy Ostergaard:
[Reflecting on the expedition's status deep beneath the Earth] You know once when I was working on the Holland Tunnel, I got cut off from my crew for ten hours. I felt this way then.
Dr. James Paxton: Nature doesn't influence Man! Man influences Nature! One strong man can change Nature!
Wright Thompson: Oh, you're wrong, Dr. Paxton. It isn't one man, it's many men working together.
[Looking at Dr. Joan Lindsey]
Wright Thompson: Right, teacher?
Dr. James Paxton: Men together are no more than sheep! One man standing alone leads the way, and the sheep follow!
Wright Thompson: What kind of place is this? Flowers that crumble to dust in your hand, stones that look like pearls, fish without eyes! Nature's sure a practical joker!
Dr. Jeremiah Morley: I suppose you could've done better?
Wright Thompson: In 10 million years I couldn'ta done worse!
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Dr. James Paxton: Nature doesn't influence Man! Man influences Nature! One strong man can change Nature!
Wright Thompson: Oh, you're wrong, Dr. Paxton. It isn't one man, it's many men working together.
[Looking at Dr. Joan Lindsey]
Wright Thompson: Right, teacher?
Dr. James Paxton: Men together are no more than sheep! One man standing alone leads the way, and the sheep follow!
Wright Thompson: What kind of place is this? Flowers that crumble to dust in your hand, stones that look like pearls, fish without eyes! Nature's sure a practical joker!
Dr. Jeremiah Morley: I suppose you could've done better?
Wright Thompson: In 10 million years I couldn'ta done worse!
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Both the mountains mentioned, Mt Lefat and Mt Neleh, are fictional.
There seems to be some inspiration for this film taken from Jules Verne's "Journey to the Centre of the Earth". Both feature an underground sea. In both, the entrance to the Earth is close to the top of the Earth (Iceland in Verne's novel and Alaska in this film) and the escape from the underground is unexpected and amazingly rapid.
Although Victor Kilian, as Dr. Morley, is clearly the star of the film, he received no screen credit because he was blacklisted shortly after completing the movie, a victim of the McCarthy "Red Scare" hysteria sweeping the country at the time. This was perhaps the only instance in Hollywood history where the leading actor in a film was deliberately not listed in its cast while everyone else was.
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There seems to be some inspiration for this film taken from Jules Verne's "Journey to the Centre of the Earth". Both feature an underground sea. In both, the entrance to the Earth is close to the top of the Earth (Iceland in Verne's novel and Alaska in this film) and the escape from the underground is unexpected and amazingly rapid.
Although Victor Kilian, as Dr. Morley, is clearly the star of the film, he received no screen credit because he was blacklisted shortly after completing the movie, a victim of the McCarthy "Red Scare" hysteria sweeping the country at the time. This was perhaps the only instance in Hollywood history where the leading actor in a film was deliberately not listed in its cast while everyone else was.
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