Alien from L.A. (1988)

Director
Albert Pyun

Main cast
Kathy Ireland; William R. Moses; Richard Haines; Don Michael Paul; Thom Mathews

Genres
Action, Family, Sci-Fi

Description
When her archaeologist father disappears on an expedition, Wanda sets out to look for him. What she finds is a secret underground world, where no one believes in life on the surface and where she and her father are taken for spies.


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