War-Gods of the Deep

An engineer named Ben Harris and a painter, Harold Tufnell-Jones, go looking for a young woman, Jill Tregillis, after she is abducted from a house on the Cornish coast. Their search takes them into a passage beneath the sea and into a sunken city, where a ruler named Sir Hugh keeps a colony of former smugglers who seem never to age. Held there against their will, the three try to work out how to get back to the surface.

Jacques Tourneur directed the film, which was released in 1965 under the original title City Under the Sea and runs 84 minutes. It is the tenth film listed among his directing credits, arriving after such earlier works as Cat People, I Walked with a Zombie, Out of the Past, Night of the Demon and The Giant of Marathon. Charles Bennett and Louis M. Heyward wrote the screenplay, with Daniel Haller and George Willoughby producing for American International Pictures and Bruton Film Productions.

Vincent Price plays Sir Hugh, with David Tomlinson as Harold, Tab Hunter as Ben, Susan Hart as Jill and supporting turns from John Le Mesurier and Henry Oscar. The underwater setting and the immortal captain place the film among the adventure, horror and science fiction genres. Audiences have received it modestly: it holds a rating of 5.3 out of 10 on IMDb from around 2,900 votes and 5 out of 10 on TMDB from a much smaller number of votes.