Staring Kerwin Mathews, old Sinbad himself, as a leader of troops, wearing, apparently, the uniform of a commander in the U.S. Navy. Or, World War II era Marine greens in action.
The unlikely plot is that a rogue Chinese general/warlord has masterminded a scheme to tunnel under the very Pacific Ocean itself to plant atomic bombs under American cities. For good measure, he was tunneling around China as well, planting bombs there too. Rogue, like I said.
The duration of a 7,000 mile trip through the tunnels for a rig like this bomb train is not explained.
This is either a British production or a British/American affair, and the "Chinese" bad guys are played by stalwart English character actors in makeup the effectiveness of which you may judge for yourselves. They travel around between laboratories and command posts and storage rooms in some kind of high-speed capsule system.
In the end the rogues are hoisted on their own petards, our hero rigs one of their bombs to explode in their midst. It's a not altogether unpleasant movie, they keep up the pace anyway and never dwell on the more ridiculous aspects of the story. I can't say that I recommend it, but I did enjoy it.
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