Amid the expedition supplies, they discover Goteborg's lifeless body, neatly laid out and covered with a blanket. Hans picks the lock, and they enter the room. They go to Goteborg's room, but there is no sign of him. They watch as she puts it in his pigeonhole, thus learning his room number. Lindenbrook gives her his business card, asking for it to be passed on to Goteborg. They ask after him at the front desk, but the hotel proprietress is evasive, stating first that Goteborg is not there, then that he cannot be disturbed. It turns out that they are staying at the same hotel as Goteborg. Hans frees them and takes them back to Reykjavik. Fortunately, they are discovered there by a young Icelandic man, Hans Belker, and his pet duck, Gertrude. ![]() Goteborg has been watching them since their arrival and, desperate to delay them, arranges for them to be abducted and detained in a remote storage shed. Lindenbrook sends Alec back to town to pick up supplies while he makes his own observations of the crater. ![]() Lindenbrook and Alec visit Sneffels Yokul, and realize that Goteborg has indeed been surveying there. He decides to leave for Iceland at once, and invites Alec to accompany him. Lindenbrook immediately suspects that Goteborg intends to mount an expedition of his own and claim the discovery for himself. A letter arrives from the University of Sweden informing them that Goteborg has disappeared suddenly without explanation. No reply from Goteborg materialises, despite Lindenbrook's repeated efforts to contact him. He has written to the eminent Professor Goteborg of Sweden informing him of the find, and plans to mount a mission to Iceland as soon as Goteborg confirms its feasibility. At sunrise on the last day of May, the Mountain Scartaris will point the path." Lindenbook explains that Sneffels Yokul is an extinct volcano, and Scartaris a nearby mountain peak. Whoever descends into the crater of Sneffels Yokul can reach the center of the earth. The translated message reads: "I am dying but my life's work must not be lost. When the Dean and Rector of the University visit him to ask why he's neglecting his teaching duties, he reveals what he has discovered. Lindenbrook devotes the next few weeks to translating the inscription on the plumb bob. Everyone is amazed when they realized that the artefact was left by a scientist named Arne Saknussemm who, almost 300 years earlier, had claimed to have found a passage to the center of the Earth in western Iceland, but had never returned. ![]() Fortunately, the explosion blasts the lava free of the object, revealing a plumb bob with a few Nordic words scratched onto it. He is about to melt off the lava to discover what the object might be, but the careless Paisley puts too much fuel in the stove, causing an explosion. Lindenbrook shows Alec that he has chipped away a piece of lava to reveal a manmade object, marked with notches, inside. Paisley in the lab, feverishly experimenting on the piece of rock Alec gave him earlier. Alec and Jenny go to the University and find the Professor and his assistant Mr. He gladly accepts, especially as he has designs on Lindenbrook's niece, Jenny.Īlec arrives at Lindenbrook's house that evening, but finds only Jenny, angry and worried that the Professor has not come home. Pleased, and intrigued, Lindenbrook invites Alec to dinner at his home that evening. As the others leave, one student, the handsome Alec McEwan (Pat Boone), remains behind to give the professor another gift: a piece of unusually heavy volcanic rock he acquired at a curiosity shop in Glasgow. He has just been knighted for service to the Crown, and is attending a surprise party given by his staff and students. In 1880, Professor Sir Oliver Lindenbrook (James Mason) is a geologist at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.
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