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Sci-FI Pint & Pizza Night

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Science Fiction Pint and Pizza Night featuring underground sci-fi movies with Unknown World (1951), The Incredible Petrified World (1958) and other underground psychotronic weirdness, trailers, short films and strange giveaways Wednesday, August 4, at Arcata Theatre Lounge, 1036 G St. in Arcata. Doors open from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m., cost is free with $5 minimum purchase of food or beverage and is all ages. Sponsored by La Dolce Video, The Arcata Eye, Daisy Drygoods, Vintage Avenger, Tin Can Mailman, The Clothing Dock and more!

Drilling into the forbidding depths of the earth!

Unknown World (1951) is an independent science fiction adventure film directed by Terry O. Morse and inspired by Jules Verne’s novel Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864). Dr. Jeremiah Morley (Victor Kilian) is concerned about an imminent nuclear war. He organizes an expedition of scientists to use an atomic-powered machine, capable of drilling through earth and stone and known as the Cyclotram, to find an underground environment where people could escape from nuclear obliteration. The expedition, consisting of 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 with private financing from a newspaper heir Bruce Kellogg who insists on going with them as a lark. Romantic rivalry, sterile rabbits and volcanoes are only some of the excitement of this underground adventure.

See women trapped in fantastic caverns at the center of Earth!

The Incredible Petrified World is a 1958 science fiction movie directed by Jerry Warren and starring John Carradine. Four adventurers descend to the depths of the ocean when the cable on their underwater diving bell snaps. The rest of their expedition, believing them to be lost, abandons hope of finding them. Exiting the diving bell, the party finds themselves in a network of underwater caverns. They encounter a shipwreck survivor who tells them he has been there for 14 years and that there is no way out. While the intrepid little group of two men and an equal number of women (including erstwhile “Lois Lane,” Phyllis Coates) scamper about beneath the surface, Professor Millard Wyman (John Carradine) works feverishly on solid ground to find a new diving apparatus that may reach them before an underwater source of oxygen runs out.

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