JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH **

There's a creature in "Journey to the Centre of the Earth" that simply can't be believed. You know the creature I'm talking about, of course? Yes, that's right; Pat Boone playing a Scotsman and once he starts into Jimmy Van Huesen's treatment of Robbie Burns' "My Love is Like a Red Red Rose" you know you are watching a fantasy. Still, he looks very fetching in a kilt though this being a U certificate, I'm sure he's wearing something under it.

James Mason plays a Scotsman, too, but one with Mason's inimitable voice and off they go on a journey to the centre of the earth. It's all nonsense, of course but Henry Levin's widescreen, large-scale version of Jules Verne's novel is hugely entertaining. They are accompanied on the journey by Arlene Dahl, (well Mason does need some romantic interest), a blonde Icelandic hunk called Peter Ronson who was better known as an athlete and a duck called Gertrude, (it's that type of picture), and on the way they encounter dinosaurs and the lost city of Atlantis. Boone's red, red rose is Diane Baker but she has to stay at home in Edinburgh. There is also a villain and he is the only one to get his comeuppance, (naturally).