The summary above is an actual quote from a character in the movie, and if I had to guess, it had to do with the film, and not to any precarious situation the four underwater explorers found themselves in. The best this flick has to offer is the science lesson on deep sea life offered at the beginning, preceded briefly by an amazing life and death battle between a shark and an octopus. However that was stock footage, probably the only time in screen history where such a sequence was better than the actual movie.
As for the story, it's almost not worth getting into, but just for the record, two men and two women descend into the Caribbean in an experimental diving bell developed by Professor Wyman (John Carradine). The bell snaps it's cable at seventeen hundred feet, and miraculously lands near a vast network of caverns, that even though submerged under the ocean is dry as a bone. They encounter in order, a large lizard resembling a gila monster, a human skeleton, and a caveman who's been there for fourteen years - how exactly did he manage to mark time?
If you've read this far, then believe me when I tell you that that's all you need to know about this film. Just re-read the paragraph above and you're home free, no wasted energy or time lost watching this soggy turkey. I'm almost tempted to say that the one redeeming feature of the film is the casting of Phyllis Coates, who was Lois Lane in the first season of "The Adventures of Superman". However she spends most of her time in a sour mood trading barbs with her female counterpart, Sheila Noonan. Not pretty.
To sum up, "The Incredible Petrified World"..... is not.
As for the story, it's almost not worth getting into, but just for the record, two men and two women descend into the Caribbean in an experimental diving bell developed by Professor Wyman (John Carradine). The bell snaps it's cable at seventeen hundred feet, and miraculously lands near a vast network of caverns, that even though submerged under the ocean is dry as a bone. They encounter in order, a large lizard resembling a gila monster, a human skeleton, and a caveman who's been there for fourteen years - how exactly did he manage to mark time?
If you've read this far, then believe me when I tell you that that's all you need to know about this film. Just re-read the paragraph above and you're home free, no wasted energy or time lost watching this soggy turkey. I'm almost tempted to say that the one redeeming feature of the film is the casting of Phyllis Coates, who was Lois Lane in the first season of "The Adventures of Superman". However she spends most of her time in a sour mood trading barbs with her female counterpart, Sheila Noonan. Not pretty.
To sum up, "The Incredible Petrified World"..... is not.