Invention for Destruction (1958)

April 7, 2024 11:33 AM

[TRAILER] Also known as The Fabulous World of Jules Verne. An evil millionaire named Artigas plans to use a super-explosive device to conquer the world from his headquarters inside an enormous volcano. Karel Zeman's legendary Czechoslovak black-and-white science fiction adventure film, based on several works by Jules Verne.

The entire film is streaming on YouTube. Also streaming on Criterion.

posted by DirtyOldTown (1 comment total)

This is 82 minutes of eye-popping delights. It's like someone watched the George Melies greats and thought on them for thirty years then found stacks of new tricks from a similar toolkit.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 11:33 AM on April 7 [1 favorite]