Dana Andrews and Kieron Moore don't see eye to eye in this natural disaster flick meets doomsday nuclear cautionary tale: one's young and fears the worst; the other, dying and impatient, is about to cause a CRACK IN THE WORLD despite having the best intentions to replace world electricity with molten lava, sending a warhead into the earth's core to bring it up. Bad choice, and all Dana's.
The seventies' Western TAKE A HARD RIDE seemed to have several sub-genres at play, and yet, despite a small yet important role, Dana Andrews is the best representation since it's not a Blaxploitation despite stars Jim Brown (as Dana's friend), Fred Williamson and Jim Kelly, nor a Spaghetti Western with Lee Van Cleef on their trial, but more a modernized version of the kind of classic rough-and-tumble cowboy picture that Dana himself was a veteran of, from CANYON PASSAGE to THREE HOURS TO KILL, and before and beyond, including his last starring roles, TOWN TAMER and JOHNNY RENO.
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