Crack in the World

Crack in the World

Year: 1965

Runtime: 96 mins

Language: English

Director: Andrew Marton

ActionScience FictionMonsters aliens sci-fi and the apocalypseDangerous technology and the apocalypseImaginative space odysseys and alien encounters

Dr. Steven Sorenson devises a plan to harness Earth’s geothermal power by detonating a thermonuclear device deep beneath the crust. The blast creates a growing fissure that threatens to split the planet in half, and he and his team must race against time to stop the crack before catastrophic devastation occurs.

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