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The Mole People

1956 · TMDB 5.1

Directed by Virgil W. Vogel

A party of archaeologists discovers the remnants of a five millennia-old mutant Sumerian civilization living beneath a glacier atop a mountain in Mesopatamia.

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Archaeologists in the Middle East stumble upon a lost Sumerian civilisation living beneath the earth, served by a race of mutant mole people who toil in the darkness.

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