Exotic settings and costumes spice up this lively Saturday matinee adventure story. John Agar is our hero, an archeologist who knows a little about everything and is as strong and sturdy as a healthy young man’s erection. Hugh Beaumont is the sidekick archaeologist who seems to barely have a functioning brain and who constantly cedes to Agar’s knowledge and decisions. While searching for artifacts in the snowy Tibetan mountains, they happen to find an opening to a city beneath the Earth, where a race of albinos who dress like a combination of Egyptians and the residents of Mongo in Flash Gordon live. These albinos engage in primitive human sacrifices, think that the sunny land above is a kind of “heaven” that one goes to after death, and subsist on a diet of mushrooms harvested by a slave class of growling, hunchbacked beasts.
The 1976 adventure film At the Earth’s Core covers similar ground.