CheerupSilver Very Cool!!!

Redwarmin This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

Protraph Lack of good storyline.

Maidexpl Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

Scott LeBrun Ever likable fantasy genre star Kerwin Mathews is cast here as Commander Jonathan Shaw, an officer with the U.S. Navy. He's called into action due to mysterious seismic forces occurring underground throughout the U.S.A. He and his men find that a renegade Chinese general, Chan Lu (Martin Benson), is creating enormous tunnels DEEP underground stretching all the way from mainland China to the States, and placing bombs at strategic points. With the help of a shapely geologist, Tila Yung (Vivienne Ventura), he sets out about foiling the efforts of the diabolical villain.Provided the prospective viewer is aware that this is VERY old fashioned entertainment - with various Caucasians cast in Asian roles - and isn't too distracted by this fact, they should find this to be quite colourful and amusing. The movie (as well as its female actresses) is gorgeous to look at, with eye catching costumes and props and vehicles, and cinematography by Kenneth Talbot. The whole scenario is deliciously preposterous, and director Montgomery Tully gives the story a decent pace while getting solid and straight faced performances from his actors. "Battle Beneath the Earth" isn't overflowing with action set pieces, but it's reasonably rousing just the same, with some interesting "lasers" that offer little more than a light show. The sets are just right for this sort of deliberately cheesy diversion.Mathews, Ventura, and Benson are among a cast also featuring capable performers such as Robert Ayres and Bill Nagy as ramrod straight military officers, Peter Arne as the passionate Arnold Kramer, Al Mulock and Earl Cameron as reliable soldiers Mulberry and Hawkins, Peter Elliott as the nefarious Dr. Kengh Lee, and Ed Bishop as the engaging Lieutenant Commander Vance Cassidy.Fun to watch, and clearly never meant to be taken very seriously.Seven out of 10.

bkoganbing In Battle Beneath The Earth the never ending Communist plot has decided on a new tactic to take over America. They're going to tunnel their way in from Asia. After that it's just planting nuclear bombs in strategic places, military bases, large cities and they blow up a couple and dictate surrender to the survivors. Neat ain't it.Interestingly enough at the time Battle Beneath The Earth came out it might have found a resonant audience because in the People's Republic Of China the Red Guard phenomenon was getting underway. Mao Tse-Tung turned on a whole lot of his comrades from the 1949 Revolution feeling that they had lost the zeal for change. The young people were those he placed his trust in and his guy for dealing with the old line Communists was a fellow named Lin Piao who met an untimely end a few years later after things really got out of hand.The Chinese general played by Martin Benson who is doing all this tunneling, a Communist mole in a literal sense of the word could have been based on Lin Piao. But sad to say this film plays like one of those old Fu Manchu stories and those in fact were coming back somewhat with Christopher Lee doing some of those new films as well around the same time as this came out.Peter Arne is the scientist who discovers the tunnels, something he wanted to work on for the west, but no one would let him. Kerwin Matthews handles the military end of stopping the Commies.If you're taste runs to Fu Manchu, I suggest you watch the real deal instead of this.

davidh-15 A classic. Utterly dismal. This film must have been made with the change left over from the first Blair Witch project. The rock wall tunnels practically wobble, truck headlights pretending to be rock boring lasers. Englishmen pretending to be Chinese with silly slant eyes - you know the style seen in every lame 60 or 70's movies - how hard is it to hire real Chinese as actors? If the effects stink they are fragrant compared to the plot. At one point to detect the Chinese tunnels the military orders the US to go silent for Gods sake; like it was a submarine on silent running! The whole things is so bad as to be camply hilarious.

Roger-39 If you used to enjoy watching Napoleon Solo and his friends back in the sixties, saving the world from democracy every week on television then this might be a movie for you. On second thoughts, get some old Man from Uncle videos, or go and see the new James Bond.