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Crack in the World

Crack in the World (1965) starring Dana Andrews, Janette Scott, Kieron Moore
Crack in the World (1965) starring Dana Andrews, Janette Scott, Kieron Moore Crack in the World – Attempting to provide endless energy to the world, a dying scientist fires a missile into the Earth’s center. And he nearly blows the planet apart …
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The Swarm

The Swarm (1978) by Irwin Allen, starring Michael Caine, Katharine Ross, Richard Widmark, Olivia de Havilland, Henry Fonda, Fred MacMurray
The Swarm (1978) by Irwin Allen, starring Michael Caine, Katharine Ross, Richard Widmark, Olivia  de Havilland, Henry Fonda, Fred MacMurray Irwin Allen did quite a few disaster movies (The Poseidon Adventure, Airport) that were commercial, if not always critical, successes. The Swarm, in contract, was a flop both commercially...
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Starflight One

Starflight One (1983) starring Lee Majors, Hal Linden, Lauren Hutton, Ray Milland
Starflight One (1983) starring Lee Majors, Hal Linden, Lauren Hutton,  Ray Milland The celebrity-laden Starflight One, aka. Starflight: the Plane that Couldn’t Land, was the last of the disaster movies.  Only with a bit of science fiction thrown in. The basic story has the first hypersonic transport being...
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