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''Unknown World'' (aka ''Night Without Stars'') is a 1951 independently made, black-and-white science fiction adventure film released by Lippert Pictures. The film was produced by Irving A. Block, Jack Rabin, and Robert L. Lippert, was directed by Terry O. Morse, and stars Bruce Kellogg, Marilyn Nash, Jim Bannon and Otto Waldis. ''Unknown World'' is loosely inspired by Jules Verne's novel ''Journey to the Center of the Earth'' (1864) and ''At the Earth's Core'' (1914) by Edgar Rice Burroughs. ==Plot== Dr. Jeremiah Morley (Victor Kilian) is concerned about an imminent nuclear war. He organizes an expedition of scientists and has them use an atomic-powered machine, the Cyclotram, capable of drilling through earth and stone, to find an underground environment where humanity could escape the coming holocaust. The expedition (Jim Bannon, Marilyn Nash, Otto Waldis, Tom Handley and Dick Cogan) begins after government funding has fallen through and they are bailed out at the last minute by private funding from a newspaper heir (Bruce Kellogg), who insists on going with them as a lark. Romantic rivalry develops (between Bannon and Kellogg for Nash), and two lives are lost to the perils of the expedition. In the end the scientists accomplish their goal and find an enormous underground expanse with a plentiful air supply, its own ocean, and phosphorescent light. However, all the lab rabbits brought with them give birth to dead offspring. Through autopsies, it is discovered that this underground world has somehow rendered the rabbits, and hence any other life form, sterile. Dr. Morley is deeply depressed by the news. When an underground volcano suddenly erupts, he fails to enter the Cyclotram and quickly perishes. The survivors enter the underground ocean and find themselves rising to the surface of the upper world, eventually surfacing in the sea near a tropical island. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Unknown World」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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