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From: leeper@ahutb.UUCP (m.leeper)
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Subject: Re: Has anyone heard of this movie?
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Date: Sun, 3-Mar-85 09:16:04 EST
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 >The movie was titled something like "Latitude (Longitude?)
 >Zero".  I hardly remember anything about the movie; I think
 >it had to do with a secret project or discovery beneath the
 >sea.  What I do remember is that a woman was transformed
 >into something like a griffin (well, she had wings and a
 >tail), and some part of the movie was frightening enough to
 >send my brother into hiding on the car floor.

Yes, it sounds like you are describing LATITUDE ZERO (1969) (originally
IDO ZERO DAISAKUSEN) made by Toho (The Japanese company who makes the
Godzilla films and a fair number of good Samurai films).  As they often
do, they put in some American actors, Joseph Cotton, Cesar Romero, and
Richard Jaeckel.

The plot concerns a secret base at the equator, headed by a Nemo-like
superscientist who has been around immortal since before 1805.  They
fight villian named Malic who throws against them a griffin, giant
rats, and batmen.  It is one of the more rarely seen Toho films in this
country but it did show up about a year ago on New York tv (it hadn't
shown up in the six years before that).

				Mark Leeper
				...ihnp4!ahutb!leeper