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Krakatoa Goes Boom
Although it takes almost an hour and forty minutes for this to happen, when the big rock does blow the film really comes alive with fireworks, boiling lava, miniature ships and some great tsunamis. Unfortunately the story leading up to those events is less enthralling, with a handful of familiar faces giving mostly flat, or in Diane Bakers case - overwrought, performances and faced with the glum prospect of being a mere supporting cast to the real star, the special effects. They play a group of disparate people who sail to the island in search of a sunken cache of diamonds, except for one woman who is trying to find her young son. Soon(not soon enough), there will be an eruption but not before Captain Maximilian Schell is forced to deal with the doped up rampage of Brian Keith, the almost-hijacking of his ship and too many other perils to mention.
This big production has a nice period design and is better than many of the 70's disaster flicks that would (dis)grace the movie screens only a few years later. The film's main purpose however was to showcase the Cinerama process it was made on and for that reason viewing the movie in it's widescreen form is strongly recommended. The Anchor Bay DVD is worth the price.

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Krakatoa in all it's uncut glory!!! Anchor Bay rules!!!
This review is for the Anchor Bay version of this classic disaster film!!! This is the full 131 minute cut of the film. And the film transfer is superb!!! You also get the choice of Fullscreen and Widescreen versions!!! This movie has a great all star cast!!! The original volcano flick!!! Five Stars!!! A+

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Entertaining disaster flic....
if you don't take it too seriously! Mediocre acting, but pretty good special effects. The build up to the tidal wave sequence is quite effective and the wave scene doesn't disappoint. The unedited version does help to put the story together and it's now not so disjointed. Transfer is pretty good for its age and I'd recommend.