Navy Commander Alan Roberts is assigned to lead an expedition to Little America in Antarctica to investigate reports of a mysterious warm water inland lake discovered a decade earlier. His helicopter and its small party, including reporter Maggie Hathaway, is forced down into a volcanic crater by a fierce storm. They find themselves trapped in a lush tropical environment that has survived from prehistoric times.

• DirectorVirgil W. Vogel
• Release15 October 1957
• Genre
  Adventure / Fantasy
• Duration1h 18m
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• Rate
  

  5.598
  46 reviews
• Productions

  Universal International Pictures