Latitude Zero (1969).avi

Latitude Zero (1969)

"Ido zero daisakusen" (original title)



105 min - Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi



Overview



A massive underwater volcano erupts and puts a group of investigative scientists in danger. They are rescued by an atomic super submarine named The Alpha under the command of Captain McKenzie. The group is quickly taken to a vast underwater city known as Latitude Zero, a fantastic, Atlantean type utopia, a world beneath the ocean with its own sun. It is soon discovered that Captain McKenzie is at war with the evil Dr. Malic, a cruel scientist who wishes to rule mankind all the while conducting genetic experiments on humans and animals. Malic sends his agents to kidnap Dr. Okada, a human scientist who has created a serum that can immunize exposure to radiation.



Director:

Ishirô Honda



Writers:

Warren Lewis (additional dialogue), Shin'ichi Sekizawa



Stars:

Joseph Cotten, Cesar Romero, Akira Takarada



Latitude Zero (緯度0大作戦 Ido zero daisakusen?), is a 1969 tokusatsu film. It was directed by Ishirō Honda with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya (his last science-fiction film). The story was written by Ted Sherdeman, writer on the 1954 science-fiction film, Them! (and based on a 1941 radio serial written by Sherdeman entitled Latitude Zero), and starred Joseph Cotten, Cesar Romero, Akira Takarada, Masumi Okada, Richard Jaeckel, Patricia Medina, and Akihiko Hirata.



The film was shot in English, with the Japanese actors, such as Akira Takarada, having learned their lines phonetically.



Language : English

Format : AVI

File size : 692 MiB

Duration : 1h 45mn

Overall bit rate : 920 Kbps

Width : 688 pixels

Height : 288 pixels

Display aspect ratio : 2.40:1

Frame rate : 23.976 fps