If I had a dime for every movie I'd seen with crackpot scientists and their unfounded theories wanting to change the world, I'd be rich.
If I had a dime for every movie I'd seen with a crackpot scientist wanting to burrow into the middle of the world because of impending nuclear war and be confronted with stock footage....
...I'd have a dime. (http://thegreatwhitedope.blogspot.com/2012/10/unknown-world-1951.html)