Tuesday, February 21, 2017

The Secret Land (1948)


Academy Awards, USA 1949

Won
Oscar
Best Documentary, Features
Orville O. Dull

MGM
no director credited
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(YouTube)

A late 40s expedition to the Antarctic is chronicled by military photographers. Just getting there proves treacherous, with a submarine and several ships imperiled by the ice floes. Eventually they make base on the continent and carry out a wide variety of scientifically exciting, but cinematically boring, experiments. Narrated by Hollywood stars Robert Montgomery, Robert Taylor and Van Heflin, all veterans.

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