City Beneath The Sea (1971)

Set in the year 2053, an underwater metropolis is seven hours away from total destruction as a giant asteroid heads toward Earth and projections are that the underwater city is directly in its path! A retired Admiral (Stuart Whitman) desperately tries to evacuate the city while forming a plan to alter the asteroid's course. Produced and directed by disaster movie guru Irwin Allen (TOWERING INFERNO). Yet another TV movie that was a pilot for a proposed TV series but this one wasn't picked up and it's easy to see why. Other than the fact that it was probably cost prohibitive, it's a crashing bore! One would think a movie about a massive city under the sea with an asteroid zipping toward it would provide some pulpy thrills or camp at the very least. What we get is a leaden chunk of science fiction with gaudy visuals (apparently in 2053, orange and pink are the colors of the day). Warners attempted to recoup some of its cost by releasing the movie in Europe theatrically under the title ONE HOUR TO DOOMSDAY. With Robert Wagner, Joseph Cotten, Richard Basehart, Rosemary Forsyth, James Darren, Robert Colbert, Paul Stewart, Burr De Benning and Sugar Ray Robinson.