Directed by William Witney
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)
This is basically Captain Nemo in the air, with Vincent Price as the mad captain of an airship with plans to end war as we know it by blowing up anyone who disagrees. It actually stands in pretty well for the faulty nuclear deterrent argument, which audiences in 1961 would have easily noticed. Charles Bronson is a scientist who is kidnapped, along with pretty Mary Webster and a few others, by Price and take a flight over the Atlantic to Europe where he confronts various governments. Unfortunately the story is marred by subpar special effects, such as a sequence where they battle stock footage of Africans on camels, which completely takes one out of the film. Still, it's not without a certain Saturday matinee charm.
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