The Underwater City 1962Director: Frank McDonald Starring: A large corporation decides to build an experimental city on the ocean floor. However, one of the engineers got gobbled up by a shark before he could finish his report. Soon after the the city is populated it is discovered that the sea bed is unstable. The occupants must now try to escape to the surface before the whole complex sinks into the sediment. This is just a harmless little ditty that really doesn't have much to offer. There's absolutely no action unless you consider an eel and octopus going at it in an aquarium action. All the men wear suits and ties and the ladies wear dresses and high heels in the finest Leave It To Beaver tradition. And everyone is on their best behaviour. The underwater scenes, although not too bad, are obviously done on dry land. How else can you have the escaping air bubbles from the scuba tanks float downward in the water? Couldn't be soap bubbles, could it? Since they all wear scuba gear while they're walking around the ocean's bottom why can't they just swim up to the surface and await rescue instead of calling in a submarine. If they were as far down as they pretend they'd be walking around in deep sea diving suits instead of scuba gear. The scenery and the sets are all miniature models and it shows. Even with all the above faults we still can't say we that it was totally boring. It's so damn goofy that we couldn't take our eyes off it.
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