Episode 696: Latitude Zero (1969)

The Projection Booth Podcast

The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2024

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Sci-Fi July continues with Ishiro Honda’s Latitude Zero. Written by Ted Sherdeman and based on his and his wife Anne’s NBC radio serial of the same name, the film stars Joseph Cotten as a Captain Nemo-like commander of a submarine on it's way to... Latitude Zero, an underwater Utopia populated by scientists from the world over. Their enemy, Malic (Cesar Romero), will stop at nothing to destroy them, even if it means making a manticore with pieces of his crew.

Walter Chaw and Carol Borden join Mike to discuss this under-seen kaiju classic and its fascinating origin.

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0:00.0	Hold your ears, folks. It's showtime.
0:08.6	People pay good money to see this movie.
0:10.9	When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.
0:17.3	Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:20.2	Cut it off.
0:25.4	Turn it off.
0:26.6	Turn it off.
0:31.6	Hey, Andrew! The
0:40.3	...their... Toho's internationally known special effects staff presents an epic making science fiction film starring many of Hollywood's top stars.
1:17.1	In Latitude Zero, you will see Utopia,
1:23.6	a mysterious underwater city where the greatest scientific minds in the world have been assembled. Is this what I think it is?
1:31.8	Diamond.
1:33.0	But is it real?
1:35.5	Everything in latitude zero is real.
1:39.2	Here we go.
1:39.8	Thank you. Malik the murderer has a diabolical plan to conquer the world.
1:56.0	The submarine alpha of Latitude Zero attacks Malik's submarine of death, the Black Shark.
2:03.6	The Black Shark.
2:07.6	A...
2:12.6	A...
2:16.6	...were... You will see futeristic weapons and the battle of Blood Rock, Malik the murderer's base of evil. Malik, the murderer's base of evil.
2:35.0	The creature! Welcome to the projection booth.
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