Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play James Mason plays Professor Oliver Lindenbrook a scientist hoping to find the world&s core in this 1959 adaptation of the Jules Verne novel Journey to the Centre of the Earth He leads his unusual party on an expedition to the centre of the earth by way of a volcano in Iceland On the way they encounter enormous mushrooms & giant prehistoric monsters Produced by Michael Todd with then-spectacular special effects the story was modernised to 1950s sensibilities Mason gives this class while Arlene Dahl & Diane Baker are the romantic interests & Pat Boone is more palatable than you might expect as a secondary lead You can watch this with your children & not be bored & they will surely love it --Rochelle O& Gorman