The Mole People (1956) on Netflix
Approved19561h 17mAdventureFantasyHorror
Archaeologists Dr. Roger Bentley and Dr. Jud Bellamin find Sumerian albinos under a mountain in Mesopotamia. The albinos keep mole men as slaves and take the visitors for messengers of Ishtar.
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Plot summary
A narration explains the Hollow Earth theories the story draws on. In Mesopotamia, archaeologists Dr. Roger Bentley and Dr. Jud Bellamin find a civilization of Sumerian albinos far below ground, descendants of people who took shelter there after ancient floods. The albinos keep mutant humanoid mole men as slaves to harvest the mushrooms that feed them, and they are weakened by light, including the beam of the men's flashlight. Believing the visitors are messengers of Ishtar, their goddess, the albinos give Bentley a slave, Adad, a young woman disdained by the others. Their High Priest is Elinu, and the Eye of Ishtar receives sacrifices.
Cast
- Joe Abdullah
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Mole People (1956)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The Mole People's Mesopotamian mythology is invented: Ishtar's real symbol was an eight-pointed star representing Venus, not the uneven chevron the film shows, every god painted on its temple walls is Egyptian, and the heroine Adad is named after a male Akkadian storm-god.
- A caged, decayed Mole Person corpse from the film can be seen at the outskirts of the Darkmoor village in Dark Universe, the Epic Universe theme park land at Universal Studios in Florida.
- Footage from The Mole People was reused in the 1966 film The Wild World of Batwoman, where its creatures became monsters created by the villain Rat Fink, played by Richard Banks.
