SETTE CONTRO LA MORTE (The Cavern) 1964
The film is set during World War Two in the mountains of Italy. A group of people are cut off from the outside world when a cave in traps them inside a massive cavern. The cavern was being used by the Axis forces as a supply depot. It is well stocked with food and fuel for the electric generator.
Trapped inside are American soldiers, John Saxon and Larry Hagman, German officer, Hans Von Borsody, British officer, Brian Aherne, Canadian pilot Peter Marshall, Italian soldier, Nino Castelnuovo and the pretty Rosanna Schiaffino.
The group agrees to leave the war outside and work together to survive. After the group does a count of the supplies etc, they decide to try and dig out. Needless to say the presence of Miss Schiaffino causes more than a little tension between several of the men.
After a hundred plus days in the cave, and several failed attempts to find a way out, the food and fuel begins to run out. Several of the group lose their minds and end up dead. Another drowns trying to swim out of the underground river and so on. It is only a chance explosion set off by mistake that frees the survivors.
Not a world class film by any means. But, considering the low budget involved, it fills the time well enough. Well worth a look in my books. This was the last film of noted b film director, Edgar G. Ulmer. Ulmer was the director of the low budget film noir gem, DETOUR.
The film is set during World War Two in the mountains of Italy. A group of people are cut off from the outside world when a cave in traps them inside a massive cavern. The cavern was being used by the Axis forces as a supply depot. It is well stocked with food and fuel for the electric generator.
Trapped inside are American soldiers, John Saxon and Larry Hagman, German officer, Hans Von Borsody, British officer, Brian Aherne, Canadian pilot Peter Marshall, Italian soldier, Nino Castelnuovo and the pretty Rosanna Schiaffino.
The group agrees to leave the war outside and work together to survive. After the group does a count of the supplies etc, they decide to try and dig out. Needless to say the presence of Miss Schiaffino causes more than a little tension between several of the men.
After a hundred plus days in the cave, and several failed attempts to find a way out, the food and fuel begins to run out. Several of the group lose their minds and end up dead. Another drowns trying to swim out of the underground river and so on. It is only a chance explosion set off by mistake that frees the survivors.
Not a world class film by any means. But, considering the low budget involved, it fills the time well enough. Well worth a look in my books. This was the last film of noted b film director, Edgar G. Ulmer. Ulmer was the director of the low budget film noir gem, DETOUR.