The main thing wrong with this movie is that it was made in color with too much money. Some nice grainy black and white film stock, a cast of relative unknowns, and it would have been just about right. But in full-color widescreen with all those big-name (if aging and relatively inexpensive) performers it's just embarrassingly overproduced. The film's only really graceful element is Peter Lorre, giving his patented demonstration of fifty different ways to smoke a cigarette as Walter Pidgeon vigorously emotes besides him. Questions: has anybody ever looked into the eerie similarities between this movie's theme song and "An Octopus' Garden"? And what exactly IS that octopus doing to the Seaview?
Review of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
