THE MOLE PEOPLE 1956 B/W Science Fiction Adventure Film

The film is loosely based on theories about the hollow earth. It depicts an underground civilization created by Sumerian descendants, who worship the goddess Ishtar. A narration by Dr. Frank Baxter, an English professor at the University of Southern California, explains the premise of the film and its basis in reality. He briefly discusses the hollow earth theories of John Symmes and Cyrus Teed among others, and says that the film is a fictionalized representation of these unorthodox theories. On an archaeological dig in Asia, Dr. Roger Bentley finds a cuneiform tablet referring to an ancient society, the Shadow Dynasty, that was believed destroyed. An earthquake soon after reveals an ancient artifact and the scientists discover the ruins of an ancient temple on a remote mountain site. It leads them to an underground world, lost in time, where a five-millennia-old Sumerian civilization continues to exsist having adapted to their surroundings.