Latitude Zero

Latitude Zero (緯度0大作戦, Ido zero daisakusen), is a 1969 tokusatsu film. It was directed by Ishiro Honda with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. The story was written by Ted Sherdeman, writer on the 1954 science-fiction film, Them! (and based on a 1941 radio serial written by Sherdeman entitled Latitude Zero), and starred Joseph Cotten, Cesar Romero, Akira Takarada, Masumi Okada, Richard Jaeckel, Patricia Medina, and Akihiko Hirata. The film was sh... more

Latitude Zero (緯度0大作戦, Ido zero daisakusen), is a 1969 tokusatsu film. It was directed by Ishiro Honda with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. The story was written by Ted Sherdeman, writer on the 1954 science-fiction film, Them! (and based on a 1941 radio serial written by Sherdeman entitled Latitude Zero), and starred Joseph Cotten, Cesar Romero, Akira Takarada, Masumi Okada, Richard Jaeckel, Patricia Medina, and Akihiko Hirata. The film was shot in English, with the Japanese actors, such as Akira Takarada, having learned their lines phonetically. In spite of this, the U.S. release is still eleven minutes shorter. Three men (Dr. Ken Tashiro, Dr. Jules Masson, and Perry Lawton) are trapped in a bathysphere due to seismic activity. They are rescued by the crew of the supersubmarine, Alpha, captained by Craig Mackenzie (Cotten), which they learn is over 200 years old (and that the Alpha was launched in the early 1800s). Mackenzie takes them to Latitude Zero to deal with the serious... less